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Vacations vs Unemployed (Score:3, Informative)
I think that's where a lot of resentment comes from with the long-term unemployed. I really think folks have in the back of their mind that the unemployed are taking benefits and having the time of their lives on the taxpayer and former employer's dime.
Nothing could be further could be from the truth.
First, there is no money to do those cool things. Sitting in front of the TV or computer gets old in about 3 days.
Then there is the shame of being unemployed. Everyone looks at you like there's something wrong with you. Everyone - especially if you were a software developer.
And to head off how folks "know" someone who is having the time of their life being long-term unemployed, I can tell you that they're just saying that to save face - with you and maybe with themselves. Because when enough people start implying or even explicitly saying that there is something wrong with you, you start to wonder. And then the despair sets in. To say, "I am having a really hard time getting a job." is almost like telling folks you're a drunk. But to say, "Hell yeah! I'm gonna ride the unemployment till it runs out!" with an attitude of sticking it the man, at least from my point of view sounds better than "I can't get a job no matter how hard I try." It's trying to fake that you're in control or give the appearance that you're in control.
When decent hard working educated people can't get jobs, something is really fucked up.
Oh, and all that bullshit that it's only folks with "worthless" degrees are having a hard time, well it's bullshit. I know quite a few folks with CS, engineering, nursing and other "marketable" degrees that are having horrible times getting work.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's something wrong with all of them. IF that were true, then WTF is going on with society?
Actually what gets me is when my fellow peons take the sides of the folks who are causing all this. The folks who parrot the talking points of Wall Streeters and ex-Wall Street money guy Presidential candidates; and in the meantime, the folks they are defending are sticking it up their ass, too. Depending the your abuser. When I see some small business guy talk as if he's one of the billionaire owner class, I chuckle.
Years ago, I was at a party with some Marine F-18 pilots and some were flight instructors. There was this C-172 pilot/instructor who was standing around and talking "shop" with the Marine Jet Fighter pilots. The Marines were really nice and polite, but they looked bored and they had this look of "WTF is this guy?!"
You small business owners who talk like you're part of the billionaire class remind of the C-172 pilot trying to be part of the jet fighter crowd. If you and your little puny business got in the way those billionaires, they'd have one of their "wage slaves" crush you like a little bug and there wouldn't be a damn thing you could do about it. They'll bury you in legal fees.
Going to cry myself to sleep, again.