Funemployment: Say Hi To Jobless People Who Are Better Than You
"Funemployment" was a mildly irritating coinage back about 8 months ago when people started losing their jobs in earnest; now it's a subject for wacky trend pieces by network news organizations who, staring at the terrible jobless numbers, are starting to freak out and look for any kind of "bright side" report they can deliver to help forestall a revolution against capitalism. Anyway, did you know that, unlike those of us whose panic over lost wages and limited opportunities has resulted in growing alcoholism, strained relationships, and physical manifestations of serious stress including but not limited to acne eruptions, hypertension, deep depression, and ulcers, there are some people who are using their "time off" to surf or just hang out with their friends? It's true! Meet the Funemployed: Their carefree attitudes and healthy ways of handling the unfortunate situation of being made redundant should totally cheer us all!
This is unfair and outrageous. I'm going to start asking homeless people to give ME money.
I wouldn't feel sorry for the funemployed if they were burning alive, right bloody now.
OMG! Is this not the quirkiest Depression evar! I'm totally going to IM this to all my friends slaving away as child soldiers in Uganda!!!!!!
R I Funemploid yet?!?!?!?! Loll! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! [bang. thud.]
Does this qualify as a rich people thing?
Was it any less outrageous when menial jobs cloaked trust funds for overspending yuppies? It did make things get to the point where getting an education + working + cost of living became a net-loss equation for virtually everyone. It was just tolerable because we all had credit cards.
So now when you see these funemployed people, they're the ones who now either have the obvious trust funds, or still have room on their credit cards.
If I were them I would be doing everything to lay low right now. People are getting angry! And they're getting angry at the people with money who dicked them over. And they can't tell the difference among anyone who has money. So when our society goes post-apocalyptic, they're all the first to go!