Unemployment Issues Gifts

Job Centre closed sign.

"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?"

"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."

'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.'

"Todd was glad he had a support animal."

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'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.

Dolestart - A New Initiative

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

'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.'

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

'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."

"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.'

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

"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."

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

Nothing to Lose

America's Biggest Export...

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

Social security.

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

Two bored males hanging out on a tatty sofa.

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