Ideas for solving the unemployment problem

[sr71blackbird]

I had an idea: rolling unemployment!
They should make everybody who works have to exchange places with unemployed folk every 6 months, and this way everyone gets the luxury of being unemployed and because not everyone has the same skills, employers will be forced to hire additional people to help take up the slack of the trainees learning the job. This will give companies the chance to get fresh blood, new ideas etc. and give workers a much needed rest being unemployed, and also, the douchebags who are lounging around now basking in unemployment will begin to feel better about having a job. What do you think?

Do you have any ideas?

[bigtim666]

do we get to exchange our unemployment money with there real salary, you would be luck to get my 155$ a week unemployment such a luxury!!!!

[boonanas]

I didnt know being unemployed is a luxury. Maybe if unemployment paid as much as you were being paid when you had a job, it'd be a luxury. But you're just scraping by.

[instrument]

Last time I got it I got 450 a week, shit was hawt.

[sr71blackbird]

My brothers been unemployed 2 years now and I hear all his stories of the cool shit he does all day, watching Phil Donohue, Oprah, exercising and experimenting with different recepies. They keep extending unemployment benefits, so I'm a little jealous that I'm busting my ass doing 5 peoples work and never getting a day off. When is my day in the sun coming?

[epo]

I hardly call watching Oprah a "day in the sun".

[A.J.]

I hardly call watching Oprah a "day in the sun".

That's right Al.

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[JPMNICK]

this is the dumbest idea I have ever heard. what happens when you have people who are in specialized jobs like engineering or finance. You think anyone can just walk in and be productive day 1? it is impossible, some jobs I have had take 3-4 months just to ramp up and understand the stuff we were supposed to be doing.

[topless_mike]

That's right Al.

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what awful language was that show in?
what is on the orange burst in the back?

[A.J.]

what awful language was that show in?
what is on the orange burst in the back?

I think it's Hebrew. Let me check with Mikeyboy.

[SatCam]

Do you have any ideas?

I think in this case it's better to not have an idea than to have your idea

[disneyspy]

i wouldnt mind getting a few more bucks in my unemployment check

[HBox]

this is the dumbest idea I have ever heard. what happens when you have people who are in specialized jobs like engineering or finance. You think anyone can just walk in and be productive day 1? it is impossible, some jobs I have had take 3-4 months just to ramp up and understand the stuff we were supposed to be doing.

So we'll have two people train the new people.

[walking joint]

My brothers been unemployed 2 years now and I hear all his stories of the cool shit he does all day, watching Phil Donohue, Oprah, exercising and experimenting with different recepies.

i'm not sure which is worse, your unemployment idea or your idea of 'cool shit'.

[SatCam]

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[Ritalin]

How about if we hunt down and kill 11% of the people that already have jobs?

[Dude!]

How about if we hunt down and kill 11% of the people that already have jobs?

you're on the right track
i'm hoping the swine flu or
the swine flu vaccine does just this

i'm pretty sure that is part
of the obama plan

[Ritalin]

you're on the right track
i'm hoping the swine flu or
the swine flu vaccine does just this

i'm pretty sure that is part
of the obama plan

What?

[brettmojo]

World War III

[~Katja~]

My brothers been unemployed 2 years now and I hear all his stories of the cool shit he does all day, watching Phil Donohue, Oprah, exercising and experimenting with different recepies. They keep extending unemployment benefits, so I'm a little jealous that I'm busting my ass doing 5 peoples work and never getting a day off. When is my day in the sun coming?
as far as I know it's only extended by 6 months after the initial 6 months and it depends on what your weekly benefit rate is as well.
It's far from luxury, cause depending on the state you live/ worked in it is not only just 60% of your original average salary over the period of the past 18 months but it is also capped, so if you had a higher income than the cap and did not save money you are pretty much screwed, especially as the only source of income for a family.
It's stressful and while you try to get out and do stuff on the limited money you have just so the ceiling won't come crashing down on you, it is far from fun or a desireable situation for most.
I have been in the US for almost 10 years now and always worked. This is the first time I am home and while I got by over the past 5 months I am experiencing financial stress as soon as UI is late.
To add to that I have no insurance cause my company was out of PA and at the time not obligated to cobra, so if I get sick or need my medications I have been on I cannot only not afford to go to the doc for a prescription, no, I can certainly not fill them either.

Luxury? Go ahead, let's trade places, cause I surely would prefer to work every day over this exhausting lifestyle of being at home every single day waiting for a job to pop up I can apply for and then still not get a call back.

[boosterp]

Along with what Katja posted I'd have to say unemployment sucks. I have made it no secret that I have some veteran issues and that they were part of why I resigned and went into a short retirement in 2008 up till now. Savings exhausted, my small pension keeping my ass afloat, did not qualify for UIB so I want to go back to work just not in clinical research. I am college educated with 16 years experience yet I am having issue with finding suitable work. WTF? This ain't a fucking luxury, well some times but I want the money or somewhere close to what I once pulled in. I would trade sitting at home trying to stretch my money to working full time, I now want to work.

I have even applied for jobs that pay nearly 20k less than what I made.

[~Katja~]

another big problem is companies offering jobs for nearly 45% less than what I was making before. As a single parent paying for a mortgage I cannot afford to take those jobs because with adding on daycare I would end up with less than what I was bringing home on UI and therefore unable to keep our home nor pay other bills that will increase again as soon as you work.

The only reason I can get by on UI is no daycare, car insurance reduced to a leisure rate at minimum coverage, no more eating out, no gas to get from and to work, extremely reduced cell phone, home phone, tv, food budget. Now you tell me there is luxury in living that way and with the fear that next month's mortgage might not be covered or I may break a leg and go bankrupt over medical bills.

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

We can have our unemployed go to Mexico and get jobs as landscapers and day-laborers.

[opie's twisted balls]

legalize whoring and pimping

[TheMojoPin]

Work camps.

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

Arbeit Macht Frei. :thumbup: