#143 Thrift Stores
When rich kids want to look cool, they shop at thrift stores to look poor. When unemployed people want to look clothed, they shop at thrift stores so they don’t get arrested for wearing nothing but...
View Article#144 Ironically Celebrating Labor Day
With Labor Day over and the majority of America winding down their summers, there may have been a certain sect of people (jobless) who made employed people wish they had more than one lousy day off to...
View Article#145 Cramming in Their Health Care
With national health care being widely debated in these here United States of America, plenty of unemployed people have their own way of dealing with a lack of health insurance: cramming in as many...
View Article#146 Staring At Their Useless Diploma(s)
For generations people have fallen for that whole “work hard in school to get a good job” bull crap that is starting to sound more and more like a line of lies these days. After hitting the books and...
View Article#147 Making Something Out of Nothing for Halloween
Halloween 2008 was probably one of the final blowouts the now-unemployed had in the past year. Chances are it was the last time people had the opportunity to party hard before doomsday reports, job...
View Article#148 Claiming Their New Year’s Resolution is to Get a Job
Most well-meaning people set out to start off the new year with a clean slate, vowing to quit this or start that – anything that will make them a better person. But it’s well known that resolutions...
View Article#149 Obeying All Traffic Laws to Avoid Fines
Has being on the road these days ever made you think you were part of some larger conspiracy? One that made you feel slightly crazier than normal, and just that much more prone to road rage? Have you...
View Article#150 Wishing They Started Job Searching Sooner
Some Republican senator claimed that most unemployed people on the dole don’t even begin looking for jobs until their unemployment insurance runs out, and because of that, he voted against another...
View Article#151 Wearing Work Clothes on Laundry Day
Back in the day when people had busy lives and jobs they would find themselves completely out of suitable clothes to wear and then be forced to spend all day doing laundry. During that time, if anyone...
View Article#152 Being Embarrassed About Their IKEA Furniture
You know that feeling you get when you walk into an employed person’s home and realize furniture comes in other colors besides birch and doesn’t require being pieced together with stripped pegs and...
View Article#140 Constantly Scavenging for Toilet Paper to Steal
There’s something about toilet paper that makes it generally acceptable to steal whenever the opportunity presents itself. For the most part, the people who are usually guilty of jacking a roll here...
View Article#141 Rationing Their Cell Phone Minutes
There are times, specifically towards the end of a billing cycle, when unemployed people around the world are just universally impossible to reach. No, they haven’t died, nor have they lost their...
View Article#142 Fast Food Value Menus
When restaurants around the country stop offering free food promotions for the unemployed to stand in line for all day, there’s always comfort in knowing that the free heart attack in a bag can still...
View Article#143 Thrift Stores
When rich kids want to look cool, they shop at thrift stores to look poor. When unemployed people want to look clothed, they shop at thrift stores so they don’t get arrested for wearing nothing but...
View Article#147 Making Something Out of Nothing for Halloween
Halloween 2008 was probably one of the final blowouts the now-unemployed had in the past year. Chances are it was the last time people had the opportunity to party hard before doomsday reports, job...
View Article#148 Claiming Their New Year’s Resolution is to Get a Job
Most well-meaning people set out to start off the new year with a clean slate, vowing to quit this or start that – anything that will make them a better person. But it’s well known that resolutions...
View Article#149 Obeying All Traffic Laws to Avoid Fines
Has being on the road these days ever made you think you were part of some larger conspiracy? One that made you feel slightly crazier than normal, and just that much more prone to road rage? Have you...
View Article#150 Wishing They Started Job Searching Sooner
Some Republican senator claimed that most unemployed people on the dole don’t even begin looking for jobs until their unemployment insurance runs out, and because of that, he voted against another...
View Article#152 Being Embarrassed About Their IKEA Furniture
You know that feeling you get when you walk into an employed person’s home and realize furniture comes in other colors besides birch and doesn’t require being pieced together with stripped pegs and...
View Article#151 Wearing Work Clothes on Laundry Day
Back in the day when people had busy lives and jobs they would find themselves completely out of suitable clothes to wear and then be forced to spend all day doing laundry. During that time, if anyone...
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