Unemployment Awareness Gifts

Can't decide what to do. Need coin to toss.

'I'm nobody's fool!'

'May I have five bucks for a hot chocolate, sir? †coffee makes me nervous.'

"How's the job search comin' along?"

"I figure if I was still employed, I wouldn’t get to spend all this time with you!"

'I'm Jeremy's father. I'm a computer consultant and I'm unemployed.'

"He's having a hard time finding work."

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

'You must be the only 'Jack-of-all-trades' who is out of work in all of them!'

"We're all in the same boat, except it's more like a life raft than an actual boat."

"I just need help getting started. A little seed money."

"Todd was glad he had a support animal."

'Can't stand diary products myself, but a job's a job.'

He kept pretending he was going to work when he was just running errands.

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'The good news is that from now on I belong to a very rare species. There aren't many personnel managers who create their own pink slip.'

Dolestart - A New Initiative

'The firm is downsizing, Oglethorpe -- tell everybody to scrunch up.'

'... No, you're not on the short list. You're not even on the long list.'

'So far more education hasn't helped me get a job. I think I'll get some student loans and get some more education.'

"Things are getting really bad around here. Phil, the office plant, was just let go."

"We're not on vacation anymore. The company folded."

'The good news is we're not laying you off. The bad news is we want you to take a 20-year lunch break without pay.'

"I'm sorry, Davis, but your face no longer fits."

"Well, YOU tell personnel you need every winter off and see if you get a job!"

'Management is very concerned about 'work life' balance, particularly where back room staff are concerned...We think you give too much, you need to get your lives back.'

"I belong to that heroic little band of unemployed on whom a healthy economy depends."

Nothing to Lose

"I didn't get a job at the job fair, but I got a blue ribbon for best resume."

"He used to be a senior fact checker at Meta — now he's just a pedant."

America's Biggest Export...

Social security.

'Sorry Sir, but 'impersonating a log' is not a very marketable skill...'

"Even after all that's happened, I feel no less regal."

Two bored males hanging out on a tatty sofa.