# Unemployment ends. Now what are you gonna do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620 "2010-12-02T03:12:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/21 "2010-12-07T17:22:35Z")
Plenty of jobs here in the USA if you’re okay with taking on 60 hour/week workloads under massive stress. Before about two years ago, the only time I’d heard profanity at work was when directed towards computers or in humorous circumstances. Now I’m hearing it directed at people with frightening sincerity. Also, now any contracts we get are divvied into one year chunks, meaning that even though we know we need to hire more people the next year, we don’t have contracts in place to be allowed to hire them until it’s too late to adequately spin them up. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/22 "2010-12-07T17:47:36Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I’d forgotten about this, but **Tamex** just reminded me. > I assume from your answer that you’re unemployed and have been receiving unemployment insurance payment. I don’t know anyone who is unemployed, so I start a new job after the holidays if you must know. > [@mangeorge](#): > > I’m wondering why you would remain jobless when all you have to do is go to work? Have you been to work? It sucks! It’s not like I waited for unemployment to run out before I started looking. I’ve been looking the whole time. It takes awhile. I mean what do you want people to tell you? If you are out of work, you have to find a new source of income. Simple as that. It’s not awesome, but babbling on about baracading yourself in your house with a bunch of guns and knives isn’t going to help people find work. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/23 "2010-12-07T18:09:07Z")
Your reply, “Idonno. Go to work I guess.”, in answer to the OP, sounded to me like someone who was waiting for the checks to end before going to work. Sorry, my mistake. Like I said, everyone I know of who is unemployed is looking work. Something that pays better than minimum wage. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/24 "2010-12-07T18:16:27Z")
Fall down a set of stairs and snap off the top of your wristbone. Since you have no insurance, get minimal care that leaves your hand officially disabled. Get on permanent disability for life. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/25 "2010-12-07T18:22:18Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > I’m already across the Mexican border where it’s safe, but my empty house is still in Michigan where it’s not safe! You live in Mexico. It is to laff. Unless you are being ironic? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/26 "2010-12-07T21:41:59Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Your reply, “Idonno. Go to work I guess.”, in answer to the OP, sounded to me like someone who was waiting for the checks to end before going to work. > Sorry, my mistake. > Like I said, everyone I know of who is unemployed is looking work. Something that pays better than minimum wage. I was being facetious.😉 ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/27 "2010-12-08T05:04:21Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I was being facetious.😉 (Just in case) I was also being facetious – 60 hr/wk stressful jobs are scarce, and I know a bunch of people who’d give their left nut for a stressful job right now. I can’t fathom how we can decide that companies are too big to fail and that we need to pay farmers subsidies for strategic imperatives, but paying unemployment when there are no jobs is just going to encourage indolence. I’ll end now, before I go off on a rant. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/28 "2010-12-08T13:52:05Z")
unemployment checks around here are just about enough for one person to put gas in the car to look for work, look nice, eat, and sleep on a relatives couch. I believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/29 "2010-12-08T15:42:18Z")
Keep my pimp hand strong. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/30 "2010-12-08T18:03:32Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Keep my pimp hand strong. Ain’t no hoes in Orlando. All the bitches is free. Everybody knows that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620.md?page=1)