Unemployment Issues Gifts

Job Centre closed sign.

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

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

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

"Dear, did something happen at the office?"

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

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

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

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

"Todd was glad he had a support animal."

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.'

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

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

"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."

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

With the mine closing down due to Emission concerns...somone had to shake their booty to keep food on the table.

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

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

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

"With the rises in fuel, food and mortgage I'm going to have to put in some overtime."

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

'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.'

America's Biggest Export...

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

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

Social security.

Two bored males hanging out on a tatty sofa.

'Believe me, mister... I'm an old hand in capital procurement!'

'Young lady, stop talking to your dad in such a disrespectful way! After all he's a man with degrees and can fill in his unemployment benefit application in five different languages!'