unsurprising…
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Economic/Social Blunders & Angst
Lets talk about it.
So, uh, yeah, I’m unemployed now, which means spending most of the day in underwear. I loved my coworkers and the steady paycheck, but I hated the actual work more and more as Tribune started butting in more and more. I’m gonna try to make a living off comics and freelancing alone, but I’m also trying to find a new part time job, which is… challenging.
![freakin gross. and also clearly desperate.
It sounds like the plot of a boring “Saw” film, but it’s apparently all-too-real.
An unemployed Austrian man cut off his own foot with a mitre saw so he could continue receiving jobless benefits.
Hans Url, a 56-year-old from Mitterlabill, then took the foot and cooked it in the oven so doctors could not reattach it.
“The planning was meticulous,” Franz Fasching, a police spokesman, told the Daily Mail. “[Url] waited until his wife and his adult son had left the house and he was alone. He then switched it on and sliced off his left foot above the ankle—throwing it in the fire so it would not be possible to reattach it before he called emergency services.”
He “then made his way to the garage where he called emergency services and waited for them to arrive.”
Url was airlifted to a hospital in Graz, where he was put in an artificial coma so doctors could stabilize him.
“The foot was too badly burned to reattach,” a hospital spokesman said. “All we could do was seal the wound. He had lost a lot of blood—he almost died on the way to hospital.”
According to the Austrian Times, Url had complained before the incident that he was too sick to work and “didn’t like the work he was offered.”
The kicker: according to the paper, being footless does not necessarily qualify Url for unemployment compensation.
“He will be assessed once he is out of hospital and we will see what work we can find for him,” Hermann Gössinger, a spokesman for the employment benefits office, said.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1mgpyfPbg1qbmp91o1_500.jpg)
freakin gross. and also clearly desperate.
It sounds like the plot of a boring “Saw” film, but it’s apparently all-too-real.
An unemployed Austrian man cut off his own foot with a mitre saw so he could continue receiving jobless benefits.
Hans Url, a 56-year-old from Mitterlabill, then took the foot and cooked it in the oven so doctors could not reattach it.
“The planning was meticulous,” Franz Fasching, a police spokesman, told the Daily Mail. “[Url] waited until his wife and his adult son had left the house and he was alone. He then switched it on and sliced off his left foot above the ankle—throwing it in the fire so it would not be possible to reattach it before he called emergency services.”
He “then made his way to the garage where he called emergency services and waited for them to arrive.”
Url was airlifted to a hospital in Graz, where he was put in an artificial coma so doctors could stabilize him.
“The foot was too badly burned to reattach,” a hospital spokesman said. “All we could do was seal the wound. He had lost a lot of blood—he almost died on the way to hospital.”
According to the Austrian Times, Url had complained before the incident that he was too sick to work and “didn’t like the work he was offered.”
The kicker: according to the paper, being footless does not necessarily qualify Url for unemployment compensation.
“He will be assessed once he is out of hospital and we will see what work we can find for him,” Hermann Gössinger, a spokesman for the employment benefits office, said.
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Will-yum: Possible Price of Rapid Growth
I have been contemplating the current high unemployment rates and I have come to the conclusion that it is possible that rapid technological growth has finally caught up with us. One type of economic inefficiency is idle resources. Unemployment is an example of an idle resource. Idle resources can…
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Craziness: Politics have blurred the lines between opinion and facts so much that Americans can’t even guess the truth. When asked a simple question about one of the most prevalent issues in our economy - unemployment rate - only 1/5th were able to respond correctly.
“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate at the time of the survey was 8.3%—a little higher than the 7.8% rate in January 2009, the month President Obama was inaugurated.” So the correct answer is “increased a little”. Credit can be given to those who said there was “No Change”, as the rate was consistent at 8.3% since February 2009, just one month after Obama took office.
sometimes…
im too tired to make coffee. to drink coffee. BUT I FREAKIN’ WANT IT.
Slightly More Jobs For All, But Fewer Jobs For Women
The Labor Department announced Friday that employers added 227,000 jobs in February, slightly more than expected, which is obviously good news: in fact, the last six months have been the best streak for new jobs since the financial crisis hit in 2008.
But the National Women’s Law Center points out that women gained only 38 percent of the jobs added last month, and that they’ve gained less than 12 percent of the nearly 2.2 million net jobs added since the start of the recovery in June 2009. Plus, women’s unemployment rate hasn’t improved at all since the start of the recovery — the 7.7 percent unemployment rate for adult women in February 2012 is still slightly higher than the 7.6 percent unemployment rate they held at the start of the recovery. Although the unemployment rate for adult men increased more than for adult women during the recession, it also subsequently dropped by 2.2 percentage points, down to 7.7 percent in February 2012.
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life's little wonders: I have a degree, but not a relevant job; what is going on?
The last two weeks have been a complete rollercoaster of events and emotions for me. I applied for a multitude of jobs in the first week, ranging from a very early morning cafe job, to voluntary work, to what you might call a ‘proper job’, as us Bristolians tend to call it. The following week, I…
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NO FREAKIN COMMENT
Tech and gadgets: Need work.
I need work. It is so frustrating. I am to educated for my area. Under qualified any were else. I am stuck in a catch 22. People in my industry love my art, but will not hire me because I don’t have 3 years of industry experience. Something that is impossible to do right out of college. Then in my…
Wandering round the house in a shirt with no undies, drinking juice from the carton, and eating Oreos for breakfast
You know what that means?
I’ve finally become the epitome of unemployment.
(this made me laugh… because I’m eating animal crackers in my pajamas at 2 in the afternoon…AND I have “2 part time jobs”… WHAT)
Hooray for protest! Just participated in the longest unemployment line ever. Over 6,000 people stretched from Union Square to Wall Street handing out “pink slips.”
