Not that I would stoop to read the Los Angeles Times, but an article from the LA Times was reprinted in a news website, so I saw it.
It talked about "funemployment," as in "jobless people who treat unemployment like vacation."
I can understand taking a couple weeks of vacation after losing a job. I just can't understand living a vacation lifestyle on an extended basis, even if I had a huge severance from my company (or a stipend from my spouse or my parents).
It's morally wrong to ignore the future, and to live like the money won't run out, or that you don't need to go back to work.
Some of the people who are quoted in the article truly hated their jobs, and even quit them voluntarily. But even they admit that they are using the recession as an excuse to remain jobless.
They are the grasshoppers who refuse to store food for the winter, while all around them, we ants continue to toil, or prepare to toil, because we know that winter is coming.
I'm glad to be an ant.
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Sheesh. Leave it to LA! I doubt the (several) folks I know who are unemployed and the (several more) who are underemployed would find much fun in all this.
Yeah, I agree...
I was appalled to see on the news the other night this guy who has been "looking" for a job for over 2 years now. Really? Seriously? That, in my opinion is being too picky!
When I got let go from Dish, I was already out looking for a job the same day. I genuinely hated my job and was relieved to have a couple weeks of "time off", but as soon as the first job became available, I took it. I didn't care if there was a drop in salary and benefits - it's *something*. And something is better than nothing, until I can find something better to come along (not to mention the perks of this job included working from home, and it seems as though I've got a good chance of moving up fairly quickly at this company...)
I talked to a friend last night that is still at dish...they keep whining (and this has been pretty constant for a good 3 years now) about how they want to get fired or to quit. He thinks that if they fire him, he can file for unemployment and state that they were discriminating or some bs reason. I'm like, oh you have much to learn... Honestly, I don't think he has the balls to quit, he's been there so long, he doesn't know anything else, and honestly, I don't think he can learn any thing else...so he'd just go back to living off of other people and playing video games all day.
When our company had layoffs a couple months back, one of the girls laid off is a single mom who lives in a trailer park. Everyone felt sorry for her so lots of employees came together and collected checks to send to her, to help her feed her child and pay her trailer rent, etc, until she found another job.
We came to find out that she left her child in [expensive] daycare and just sat at home for a few months, not even looking for a job.
I'm glad I was one of the "thoughtless" ones who didn't contribute.
Yeah I didn't like my job too, I left and started my own business, doing everything and sometimes nothing, lol. Thanks for sharing, this is interesting post. Anna :0
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