tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997Fri, 01 Nov 2024 07:58:54 +0000UnemploymentStagesFamilyRealizationsBad DaysPlansFriendswaitingInterviewsNeurosisUpdatesBoredomCryingEpiphaniesGuest PostingTips and TricksBoxesEmploymentGuest PostKafkaMisunderstandingsRulesShocker<i>When the going gets weird, the weird point out stupid stuff.</i>http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (A Person)Blogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-7694172953934241219Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:31:00 +00002011-07-01T17:58:01.379-07:00Bad DaysCryingUnemployment"Second verse....same as the first."It's been one year, nine months, fifteen days since I got the call saying that I was closing the file on being unemployed. It's also been two years, one month and eight days since the last time I sat in an office looking across from a boss I didn't respect who was feeding me a steaming pile of insincere half-truths. "Budgetary reasons" he said as he reached http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2011/07/static-on-line.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-1544676850633751594Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:31:00 +00002009-11-16T20:55:01.179-08:00EmploymentStagesUnemploymentUpdatesThe last interview I had went well. So, of course, I didn't get the job. It's the way of the Unemployed Warrior, really. A week went by and the other interview was going to happen. I didn't have a good feeling about it, mostly because it was a phone interview. I hate phone interviews. I don't even like talking on the phone. I'd never even had a phone interview before and I knew before it evenhttp://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/11/waiting-on-call.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-2536957151990434481Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:44:00 +00002009-09-04T01:47:18.627-07:00Bad DaysGuest PostingUnemploymentUpdateswaitingEDITOR'S NOTE: Another guest post, from another friend of U.F. that has been out of work, this time for exactly a year yesterday. Please take a second to comment if you dig it. Thanks.Today was a bad day. For a lot of reasons, actually.Mainly, it was a day I had been dreading for a week or so now. Sept. 3, 2009 is the one-year anniversary of what has become, in retrospect, the worst day of my http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/09/guest-post-unemployed-year-in-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-5484026116076241832Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:34:00 +00002009-09-01T20:12:43.880-07:00Bad DaysBoredomNeurosisPlansRealizationsStagesTips and TricksUnemploymentwaitingOne thing the Unemployment experience teaches you is to be humble.After a harrowing, near-death experience (from nerves, not actual real danger) buying clothes and getting, *ahem*, groomed for The Big Interview last week, I entered the period known as "Waiting For The Call" where all of your senses are heightened and any sound, from a bird chirping to a cat throwing up to the mailman pulling up http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/09/ringing-in-your-ears.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-218593535148566183Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:06:00 +00002009-08-25T21:58:16.676-07:00FamilyInterviewsNeurosisPlansStagesUnemploymentwaiting"Clean shirt, new shoesAnd I dont know where I am goin to.Silk suit, black tie,I dont need a reason why.They come runnin just as fast as they canCoz every girl crazy bout a sharp dressed man."— ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man"Fuck. FUCK. FUUUUUUUUCK."I hear the Dressing Room Lady outside the door."Everything okay in there?"I sigh."No... Yes."This is the third pair of pants I have tried on, and the http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/cursing-in-dressing-room.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-5222279084914140214Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:23:00 +00002009-08-18T02:06:32.465-07:00FamilyFriendsRealizationsStagesUnemploymentCome gather 'round peopleWherever you roamAnd admit that the watersAround you have grownAnd accept it that soonYou'll be drenched to the bone.If your time to youIs worth savin'Then you better start swimmin'Or you'll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin'.— Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin'With enough distance it all makes sense.You serve your meager purpose, and subject http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/drenched-to-bone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-7270298855195042916Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:54:00 +00002009-08-14T17:59:37.891-07:00Guest PostingPlansUnemploymentUpdatesThought the Wednesday's guest post was very good and chock-full of tips and tricks for the newly Unemployed person that I'd leave it up on top an extra day. As for myself, I've working on some actual projects that might make me some money! So I might miss a day or two occasionally. The whole "posting everyday" thing was a little ambitious, anyway, without me giving up my actual identity and http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/anyone-even-notice-we-havent-been.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-9216016108267986138Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:29:00 +00002009-08-12T01:29:00.897-07:00Guest PostInterviewsPlansTips and TricksUnemployment[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first guest post here at the Unemployed Files by a good friend of ours. If you have a tale of unemployment, or tips for those that are unemployed, feel free to send it in to us here. Thanks!]I know the author of Unemployed Files and he offered to post an article that I wrote. I normally don’t do this sort of thing but I feel like I have a lot of good advice to http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/uf-guest-post-pragmatic-tips-for-being.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-3896921992960808817Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:50:00 +00002009-08-11T00:51:30.108-07:00FamilyFriendsRealizationsRulesUnemploymentMost days, once you get deeper into multiple weeks of being without work, you fail to realize what day it is, at least in my case. I go in and out of this state of thought. Sometimes I am still aware of what is going on. Somethings I neglect the calendar almost willfully. For those of you who do know what day it is, and I am one of you, sometimes, I have found that there are better days and http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-rules-and-old-cliches_11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-1585871676246478012Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:09:00 +00002009-08-10T13:57:16.818-07:00BoredomPlansStagesUnemployment"Countin' flowers on the wallThat don't bother me at allPlayin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-oneSmokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain KangarooNow don't tell me I've nothin' to do&#151; The Statler Brothers, "Flowers on the Wall"After a few weeks, the novelty of being home all the time wears off. You break your old habits, and start forgetting things that don't matter anymore. You http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/chairman-of-bored.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-608570199816086884Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:30:00 +00002009-08-09T20:31:42.831-07:00Chuckle if you must, but I will be taking the weekends off here at U.F. On the occasion that I receive a story from someone that isn't myself, if I think it's U.F. material I'll post it here on the weekends, but for now, you can just check out what's happened in the previous week, and I will be back with more on Monday!Thanks for reading the site, and for (hopefully) letting your friends know http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-schedule-is-going-to-work-at-uf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-4965924349250175093Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:55:00 +00002009-08-07T11:16:09.456-07:00FamilyInterviewsMisunderstandingsNeurosisRealizationsUnemploymentWANTED: Designer. Must know Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, and be highly creative and capable of working without supervision.Well, that's me to a tee! Full of optimism, hope and vigor I quickly get in touch with who I envision will be my new boss as soon as I get the chance to meet him face-to-face.A personal website is put together quickly, fully loaded with an "About Me" page and a http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/ill-tell-you-anything-cept-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-7835576958415266152Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:57:00 +00002009-08-05T22:54:27.159-07:00EpiphaniesFamilyFriendsRealizationsStagesUnemployment"And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shackAnd you may find yourself in another part of the worldAnd you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobileAnd you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautifulWifeAnd you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?"— Talking Heads / Once in a LifetimeThe Alarm went off everyday at 7:00 a.m. on the dot. Well, it did until http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/reality-cheque.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-8254826237235211595Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:11:00 +00002009-08-04T23:28:46.467-07:00EpiphaniesFamilyFriendsRealizationsStagesUnemploymentIn The Land Of The Unemployed, "Overqualified" Is A Four-Lettered Word."You just know too much."Well, you know too little."You're just overqualified, and I'm afraid you'd get bored."I'd get bored regardless, eventually. Try me."We just need someone more 'entry-level.'"Well, I just need a paycheck.A common refrain from many employers is that if you're not straight out of college is that you are "http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/overqualified.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-5126388918471866093Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:00:00 +00002009-08-04T12:37:30.318-07:00Bad DaysKafkaUnemploymentwaitingDay One and I was down in it. The first night was bad. Interrupted by several bouts of sleeplessness, anxiety ridden jolting and tossing and turning. I wasn't sure if I was mad, or hurt, or angry or what. What I did know was that my phone was ringing constantly, with a lot of people telling me not to worry about it, and that my bosses were jerks, and that things would be better. While I http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-aint-allowed-to-do-them-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-1880154075041263623Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:37:00 +00002009-08-03T14:59:06.054-07:00Bad DaysBoxesCryingShockerUnemploymentI'd been working where I worked for a while. Seven years to be exact. In fact, the day I was fired was one week exactly after my seventh year working for my workplace. It came as a shock and it didn't. I hadn't always gotten along with my supervisor, who was just another supervisor in a litany of supervisors stacked to the ceiling, who were underneath another pile of Vice-Presidents leading up http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/where-end-begins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-7144421960355909990Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:50:00 +00002009-08-03T01:25:15.865-07:00I was doing my morning routine, checking out the news, and the e-mails and the Twitters and I stumbled across something that caught my eye on the Huffington Post and it made my stomach churn in disgust. Michelle Malkin, a conservative talking head, was on the usually entertaining and informative This Week with George Stephanopolous and was somehow picked to be a guest on the Round Table segment http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/kids-say-darnedest-things-and-adults.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361272100662339997.post-3131394894828395367Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:49:00 +00002009-08-03T01:57:24.826-07:00I’m sure there are some of you out there, locked up in a highly satisfying professional life that look out the window of your homogenized corporate tower wondering just what the little people with no jobs do with their whole day. Well, at first it’s a flurry of trying your best to immediately get work and get on with your life and try to get a new job! Gotta hustle! After the first months of http://unemployedfiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/day-in-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Person)0