The Unemployment Aisle

This is where you can do self check out in grocery stores and such.

I'm in such a hurry and I only have 3 things to buy. I'm just going to have to use the unemployment aisle!

by cher_cherbear January 5, 2017

Unemployment

Unemployment is defined as a situation or state by which a person or group of people who are capable, willing & able to work is not been provided with a suitable job.

Unemployment leads to crime

by Bragado December 10, 2021

Unemployment

Unemployment isnt a comfortable life, even for people who get benefits. Theres something essential about having a steady job, theres a reason most people would rather work than be unemployed with benefits for an extended time, and many would rather go to work than work from home. Having a job gives a lot of people a sense of being a part of something outside their family, or what's at home, it's not something that can be replaced. Most of the people who are unemployed and getting benefits aren't living that way because it's what they wanted to do since they were kids, they live that way because the business they worked for shut down.

He/she wouldn't choose unemployment as a way of life, but it was his/her current circumstances.

by Solid Mantis May 29, 2020

Unemployment

There's more people angered by the job loss and threat of loss of unemployment benefits than there are people scared of the thought of losing everything. These are people that lost their jobs not over performance or attendance, but for no reason other than a group of people made it their agenda to shut everything down.

Unemployment isn't scary, neither is losing everything. It's all the effort people put towards working and saving being turned into bullshit by the same people who want everything shut down.

by Solid Mantis November 22, 2020

Unemployment

There's more people angered by the job loss and threats of loss of unemployment benefits than there are people scared by the thought of losing everything. These weren't people that lost their jobs over performance or attendance at work, they lost their jobs for no reason other than a group of people made it their agenda to shut everything down.

Unemployment isn't scary, all the effort people put towards their jobs gets turned into bullshit by the same people who want everything shut down. The people who want everything shut down are as much the problem as everybody else.

by Solid Mantis November 22, 2020

PA Unemployment

The unemployment office in the state of Pennsylvania. The system was much better in the past until a Facebook Update in the summer of 2021 completely overhauled the system.

The customer service system became is now one of the worst in the US. If you contact them for help, they clearly refuse to fix your issue. They log your issue with a ticket number and force you to wait for three weeks due to 70,000 people being ahead of you. And when they contact you, you'll end up missing the call and getting an email instead, forcing you to open a new ticket and wait three more weeks because your issue was not resolved.

If you ever experienced this, just contact a lawyer and sue the crap out of the Commonwealth of PA.

And this is from a Commonwealth of PA employee.

Kyle: Dude, the PA unemployment system now is awful. All they did was set up a ticketing system forcing you to wait weeks for a response to your issue.
Chris: Yeah, I'm still waiting for my ticket to be rung up. It's been a week now.

by The Real Driller October 21, 2021

headline unemployment

(ECONOMICS) Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate). Does not include discouraged workers. Also referred to as "U-3" by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The BLS regularly publishes six estimates of unemployment. The others are U-1, U-3, U-4, U-5, and U-6. Eurostat publishes one monthly estimate of unemployment for the European Union, which is approximately midway between U-3 and U-4.

The unemployment statistics for the USA are collected through a monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) (also known as the household survey) and an establishment survey.

Given the way the government's headline unemployment rate is calculated, it can never reach 14%. This is because the civilian labor force includes only people who are working or have looked for a job in the previous four weeks. When the economy gets really bad (like now), unemployed workers get discouraged and give up looking for jobs. This causes the civilian labor force to decline as fast or faster than total employment.

{Louis Woodhill, "On Track for 14% Unemployment," RealClearMarkets (12 Jan 2010)}

by Abu Yahya July 17, 2010