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[oakenguy]

This morning the Phoenix asked 30 people who'd been unemployed for six months or more what they've been doing with their time.

To the two people who responded with stories of their travels around the world, "visiting over 30 countries on six continents" in one case, hiking up forbidden pyramids under the full moon, visiting sacred rat temples in Indonesia, attracting men ten years younger on a regular basis, I'd like to say, on behalf of everyone who's ever been unemployed without a comfortable nest egg/golden parachute/rich parents: FUCK YOU.

I'm a wee bit cranky today.

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[malterre.livejournal.com]

Eat the rich!
*flashes moon*

Yeah, I work for a non profit and I just took a pay cut. Ask me how hard I feel like working today. :)

He let's have office chair races!

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

i know one of those guys -- he's kind of a child molestor, and seeing him in print like that was disturbing.

[eroika.livejournal.com]

You can say it again on my behalf as well :p Fucking ppl with $. I suppose I can't be as annoyed if it's someone who did work hard at saving a nest-egg but for those that just had $ lying around, they can just take a swan dive off a short cliff :P

[stonebutterfly.livejournal.com]

Bah.. wandering the earth... bah.

I'd just like to be able to pay my bills, thanks.

Good for them if they worked hard and squirreled money away and were prepared.

Unfortunately even the $10k that I squirreled away got eaten slowly down to nothing just paying the bills while I tried to find another job.

Foo I say again!

[akycha.livejournal.com]

[raises hand from the back of the room]

I'd just like to second that loud FUCK YOU to the rich people.

Other Rose,

(no longer quite unemployed, but only employed until the end of the semester)

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

Thank you for saying to for me! All I did was like 50 loads of laundry and teach myself some Photoshop. Woo.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

Or they could be doing it in the american way: getting into debt up to their ears.

[prettydaisies.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say, on behalf of everyone who's ever been unemployed without a comfortable nest egg/golden parachute/rich parents: FUCK YOU.

a great big southern baptist amen to that.

(that's funny. i don't believe in god, but those baptists really are a passionate bunch of fun.)

[freyja.livejournal.com]

to be honest, there's probably more to it than any of us know.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Of course, you're very very good a resisting temptations your particular workplace throws at you. If I was there, the line between "exhibit" and "special desk friend" would always be getting blurred.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Yow! Which one? Not the one who took a chainsaw to his kitchen?

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

no, not that one. i probably shouldn't be too specific in my identification of him, since to my knowledge it's all been consentual -- he just really likes teenaged girls, a lot.

[braingeyser.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should all charge up our credit cards, then go walk the earth in order to get away from our debtors, and bid a fond "screw you!" to the US. Flee to some country where the economy is decent and the political forces are not the plaything of a cheating, illiterate, spoiled brat. If such a country even exists, especially one that would not just ship us back here. I know this is a taboo thing to say in this political atmosphere, but I am fed up with the state of this country and the fool who's running it into the ground.

Sorry. Guess I'm a little cranky today, too.