Bosses are like assholes—everybody’s got one. Well, everyone except the unemployed. But still, bosses are like assholes, in that they are assholes.

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . .trump the need to preserve your credit score, orpurchase a new gizmo.

recession.” No matter how many millions of jobs are lost, how much debt our country accrues, or how many years the stagnation drags on, it’s not a depression until the dogmatic media officially declares it...

Don’t forget:Ruts aren’t that much different . . .from graves.

My zip code is my salary. Too bad I live in 32256 and not 90210. Also, I lied—but only because the zip code 00000 does not exist.

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

Some people work to live, and other people live to work. Then some people, like me, are both unemployed and alive (at least at the time of this writing).

He picked up the paper and read the article; it was just one of many he had read lately that portrayed the poor in an awful light. The badge had now become the symbol of...

The cool thing about unemployment is every day is Saturday.

If You find yourself in a hole; stop digging.

I will never be unemployed.

But the economy’s out of control. Money just doesn’t need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.

The escalator doesn’t work, and you’d think they’d still be used as stairs, but in this economic depression, even the stairs are unemployed.

In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker soon encounters ideologies that are explicitly hostile to any larger, social understanding of his or her situation. The most blatant of...

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same “reasoning” to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they’d soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found their child...

Even if you love a lady, don’t say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

Love is me plus you. But what’s with the midget in the corner recording all of our interactions? I thought I fired him yesterday.

Self-preservation—this is your new focus. The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations. Debt is hindsight.