Tell us your unemployment stories

The Washington Post's Marc Fisher asks for your unemployment stories.

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News & Politics

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• unemployment
• Washington Post
• Marc Fisher

[khmaiboihon]

my life sucks since i've lost my job...instead of working and smoking weed i spend my days watching youtube videos and getting educated about the american economy(scary stuff watch the dollar bubble)

[foreveradame]

I think the consept idea is good, "ok i have time to spend time w/family now that i dont work...ect." but it is heart breaking to know you can barely keep your electricity on, and ALOT of people are losing their homes & probably have had no way to save to rent another place. It makes you appreicate being able to go to McDonalds w/ your child for a hamburger. But i dont appreicate that you litterally can lose everything you have worked a lifetime for. It just makes me angry.

[lyrminas]

I lost my job due to exceeding sick days for this year ( getting sick off their chemicals I am required to use to function at that job ) didn't want to complain after the first confrontation telling me to find a new job regarding my problem with the chemicals. Now they're fighting my claim saying I never called in sick and never showed up on various days ( This disqualified my claim and now appealing that I did not do such a thing ) Very little money, very little time.

[auctionmusic]

I was out for 11 months. And I'm an experienced professional at what I do. The one thing that was real odd, and I never experienced before, was the complete silence...no response what-so-ever to job applications. Finally landed a job through a family connection (someone was laid off because of poor work).....use your network of people who know you (the strangers networks don't work.)

[ElLeonidas2009]

damn companys

[Coppillie]

Johnny had been made redundant:

a cost cutting exercise.

He was still out looking for work

when his ex bosses got a big pay rise.

Hear the whole story on my upload :(

[elbrookman]

hi marc.....i remember you from the late 70's and early 80's......look me up on my channel.....go through my vids....you may remember me....you may even find a story or two if you look hard enough.

[kurisu3000]

lol.....yeah

[DigiTan000]

Wanna know how I lost mine? My father was a Fed chairman. And a fiend. One night he slashes key interest rates crazier than usual. Mommy grabs a mortgage-backed security. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So with me watching, he takes the M3 money supply--laughing-- and says, "why so prosperous?" Comes at me with the inflated dollars.... "Why so PROSPEROUS?" Sticks the market bubble and weak currency in my mouth. "Let's put some food stamps on that FACE!"

And... Why so prosperous?

[CommentorX]

@littlemikee So the job you quit - is it still open? Where do I submit my resume?

[gadielito2]

people complaining and talking about there misfortunes is a stupid, imatute, and pointless thing