Unemployment Challenges Mugs

'Are you actively seeking job rejection letters?'

"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."

"Dear, did something happen at the office?"

Man suffering from rope burn due to climbing the corporate ladder

"You haven't been laid off because you're the designated scapegoat."

"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."

'I feel like I'm in a rut, too!'

"Todd was glad he had a support animal."

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

"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

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

Business Sisyphus

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

'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."

'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.'

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

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

What Sisyphus Learned: "When life gets rough, you sure find out who your friends are!"

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

Nothing to Lose

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

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

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

America's Biggest Export...

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

Social security.