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gadian		2012-07-25 02:50:43 AM

The unemployed must SUFFER in DEPRESSION and DESPAIR every second of every day until they are gainfully employed like the morally, intellectually, and sexually superior employed people. If you're unemployed and you're not crying or on your knees begging to god with some CEO's cock down your throat for an unpaid internship, you should be shot on sight and then sent to a cold prussian prison where you'll learn the meaning of work as you cox turnips to grow in frozen soil. Stop being lazy and stealing my money, you farking moochers.

Gothnet		2012-07-25 02:50:55 AM

untaken_name: WhyteRaven74: Only in America would someone, anyone, question someone else taking a vacation.

Well, or France. America or France, but surely nowhere else.

Link

That's... uh... a little different. They're not questioning that the french PM should have been allowed to take a vacation, just that he probably shouldn't be indebting himself (and by proxy, the nation) to dictators by taking gifts of flights and holidays from them.

WhyteRaven74		2012-07-25 02:51:05 AM

untaken_name: Link

The issue there is how he took his vacation, not that he took it.

miltonbabbitt: Sometimes getting your head straight is the best move you can make before embarking on a serious job hunt.

also, THIS

Lenny_da_Hog		2012-07-25 02:52:08 AM

I take the same vacation every year, employed or not.

I also travel beyond that vacation, employed or not.

While on unemployment, I halted the unemployment while not actively looking for work, in compliance with our laws.

It's my savings, and it's my insurance money. How I budget is nobody's concern but my own.

LincolnLogolas		2012-07-25 02:53:04 AM

The My Little Pony Killer: Technically, your unemployment *is* a vacation.

/has been on vacation for the last six months

I had a year long vacation, and another year of partial vacation. Unfortunately, my vacation ended a month ago.

fusillade762		2012-07-25 02:53:37 AM

Is it wrong to fark a chicken carcass before you cook it and eat it as long as no one finds out about it?

chixdiggit		2012-07-25 02:53:41 AM

Go on as many vacations as you like. As long as I'm not paying for it.

xl5150		2012-07-25 02:54:04 AM

Lenny_da_Hog: I take the same vacation every year, employed or not.

I also travel beyond that vacation, employed or not.

While on unemployment, I halted the unemployment while not actively looking for work, in compliance with our laws.

It's my savings, and it's my insurance money. How I budget is nobody's concern but my own.

3.bp.blogspot.com

apachevoyeur		2012-07-25 02:54:23 AM

Regardless of employment status, if you do not make time for vacation you are not only an idiot... But you are farking up the world for the rest if us.

People who dont take vacay are scared pussies and only enrichening masters. In the case of the self employed, you are risking your business. Have some balls, take time off and enjoy it. You aren't making your nation more productive.. You are only reducing yourself to being a slave and/or burning out.

crab66		2012-07-25 02:54:28 AM

None of my farking business.

Lenny_da_Hog		2012-07-25 02:55:59 AM

fusillade762: Is it wrong to fark a chicken carcass before you cook it and eat it as long as no one finds out about it?

You've never watched Pink Flamingos by John Waters?

Fista-Phobia		2012-07-25 02:56:31 AM

Define vacation.

wantingout		2012-07-25 02:56:54 AM

MadAzza: No.

Must we always be slaves to a Calvinist mindset? No!

NO.

untaken_name		2012-07-25 02:57:33 AM

Gothnet: untaken_name: WhyteRaven74: Only in America would someone, anyone, question someone else taking a vacation.

Well, or France. America or France, but surely nowhere else.

Link

That's... uh... a little different. They're not questioning that the french PM should have been allowed to take a vacation, just that he probably shouldn't be indebting himself (and by proxy, the nation) to dictators by taking gifts of flights and holidays from them.

I don't recall any qualifications in the original statement.

/what can I say? America's totally farked up, I have to be creative if I'm going to represent

Tenatra		2012-07-25 02:57:48 AM

I'm supposed to go on a mini vacation in a couple days, I have extra money set aside but that could change drastically if I get raped by the electric company (I get my bill in a day or 2). Just found out that a friend is getting billed for $400 this month.

/fark you KCPL, I want to go back to the non profit coop I had when I was out in the country :(

Lenny_da_Hog		2012-07-25 02:58:13 AM

Fista-Phobia: Define vacation.

I'm traveling.

/it's a pol tab joke.

untaken_name		2012-07-25 02:59:20 AM

WhyteRaven74: untaken_name: Link

The issue there is how he took his vacation, not that he took it.

Granted, but I didn't have a lot to work with, okay? I did the best I could in a short time.

Goimir		2012-07-25 03:00:34 AM

StopLurkListen: No.

Looking for work is a full-time job. My state requires you to show what jobs you've applied to on your bi-weekly claim. Researching job boards, prepping for interviews, traveling for interviews, and the application process itself -- in my case, the last job I interviews for required a test, of which they expected ONE WEEK'S worth of output, which they would judge for quality as well as quantity.

So after this grueling schedule for several months during the worst of the economic downturn, damn skippy I needed a break.

But watch out -- the state unemployment office may schedule an in-person interview at their office at almost zero notice.

Well, you can be out of town looking for work. After all, if you can't find a job after several months in your area, maybe you might look elsewhere.

Pretty sure they have jobs in vacation spots.

apachevoyeur		2012-07-25 03:00:47 AM

Dumbass tag is for subby?

xl5150		2012-07-25 03:01:14 AM

Fista-Phobia: Define vacation.

What people who obviously aren't serious about their jobs do in order to ensure that one of the people stepping over everyone else to get a job are sitting in their desk when they return.

xLizzieBordenx		2012-07-25 03:03:02 AM

Saw the source and then the headline, I was really hoping that the story would have been named something like "If you still have an email address that ends in @aol.com, are you an idiot?"

Fista-Phobia		2012-07-25 03:03:47 AM

Lenny_da_Hog: Fista-Phobia: Define vacation.

I'm traveling.

/it's a pol tab joke.

www.trailertheater.com

I'm knockin' on the store window with nothing but Miracle Whip dregs.

Deathfrogg		2012-07-25 03:07:29 AM

The only time I get any real time off is when I'm laid off.

Worked 15 years w/o anything but weekends off, and not always those. When my rent went up 20% in '07, my boss conveniently decided to reduce my hours to 32 so he didn't have to drive his hour commute and save gas (it went up to almost $5 a gallon at the same point). Mind you, I still had to work about 40 hours a week (give or take) to make the parts, but I only got paid for 32 no matter what. After a year of that, when I couldn't make up for the back rent and the electric bill, I quit on a moments notice and walked out. Took my first vacation in 20 years.

Fista-Phobia		2012-07-25 03:08:29 AM

xl5150: Fista-Phobia: Define vacation.

What people who obviously aren't serious about their jobs do in order to ensure that one of the people stepping over everyone else to get a job are sitting in their desk when they return.

That is if SAP allows it.

xl5150		2012-07-25 03:08:35 AM

chixdiggit: Go on as many vacations as you like. As long as I'm not paying for it.

Funny, I said the same thing to my wife just recently.

KrispyKritter		2012-07-25 03:09:27 AM

WhyteRaven74: Only in America would someone, anyone, question someone else taking a vacation.

indeed. this bears repeating.

xl5150		2012-07-25 03:11:00 AM

Fista-Phobia: xl5150: Fista-Phobia: Define vacation.

What people who obviously aren't serious about their jobs do in order to ensure that one of the people stepping over everyone else to get a job are sitting in their desk when they return.

That is if SAP allows it.

SAP? Can you elaborate? I'm not familiar with this.

xl5150		2012-07-25 03:14:07 AM

KrispyKritter: WhyteRaven74: Only in America would someone, anyone, question someone else taking a vacation.

indeed. this bears repeating.

How do you figure? You really think it to be wise to take a vacation when the economy is in the current state and your boss most likely has a stack of resumes for people who would gladly start tomorrow to take your job?

Deathfrogg		2012-07-25 03:15:35 AM

xl5150: KrispyKritter: WhyteRaven74: Only in America would someone, anyone, question someone else taking a vacation.

indeed. this bears repeating.

How do you figure? You really think it to be wise to take a vacation when the economy is in the current state and your boss most likely has a stack of resumes for people who would gladly start tomorrow to take your job?

Ahh, yeah, the Republican Paradise artfully described in one sentence.

OgreMagi		2012-07-25 03:16:05 AM

One of the nice things about working in California is an employer can't screw you out of your vacation pay. If they won't grant you the time off, they eventually have to pay you the money. Unlike some states where they can have a use it or lose it policy and refuse to grant the time because "it's the busy time". I would never work for a company that refused to authorize time off.

As for taking a vacation when unemployed, if you've ever been unemployed for any length, you know how stressful it can be. Taking just a few days to not think about finding work can make the world of difference.

Fista-Phobia		2012-07-25 03:16:08 AM

xl5150: Fista-Phobia: xl5150: Fista-Phobia: Define vacation.

What people who obviously aren't serious about their jobs do in order to ensure that one of the people stepping over everyone else to get a job are sitting in their desk when they return.

That is if SAP allows it.

SAP? Can you elaborate? I'm not familiar with this.

Web portal you put your time into. EPx is DOWN. I can't print. They're not in our time zone. Etc...

Lenny_da_Hog		2012-07-25 03:16:36 AM

The writer has just been listening to too many whiners. I ran into them in my tiny town all over the place.

There were people talking about me in the local diner, coordinating with each other to determine when I had and hadn't been seen around town, so they'd know if I was off in the desert or the tundra instead of looking for work. A barmaid at the ski lodge posted on FB that I really shouldn't be spending my money in their restaurant, seeing as I was on unemployment at the time.

People for some reason feel completely empowered to walk up to a stranger they've just heard is on unemployment, and start berating him or her. It happened at least a dozen times.

He has survivor's guilt. I don't. I didn't spend like a drunken sailor when I was employed, didn't run up credit card or other debt, and instead put away savings for a rainy day. It's raining, I have an umbrella, and I'm going to use it without guilt.

matterri		2012-07-25 03:18:10 AM

Its not like you have to worry about asking the boss' sniveling douchebag son for the time off.

I say Go for it!

XplodedSynapses		2012-07-25 03:18:44 AM

One thing i have learned is, when i don't have income, i cannot squander what i have.
Basically, it's because i can't foretell what's coming, so i need to prepare for what might happen.
i guess that means i am against going on vacation when i have limited means.

/Can't say it's the right approach for her.
//i am not her.

Too Pretty For Prison		2012-07-25 03:21:57 AM

She's been unemployed since Jan '10. She's got some $ since her husband died (probably wanted to die young just to get away from her twat waffling). If you didn't read the article, let me sum it up for you. "oh, poor me. my husband died and left me all this insurance money and his 401K. I've spent the past 2.5 years finishing my masters, my kid's in college, I write freelance articles about how tough it is to be me, and I'm generally just exhausted from diddling myself while reading soft porn novels. I know, I'll take a vacation from doing nothing and I'll feel all cozy again.". Twat Waffle.

SpaceyCat		2012-07-25 03:27:25 AM

Ah yes. The wonderful American work culture. Unless you're working, you're not worth anything.

I work to live, not live to work. I'm more than a cog in the work force.

No, this person should not be ashamed to take a vacation. Is it wise financially? Not my call.

fusillade762		2012-07-25 03:27:45 AM

Lenny_da_Hog: fusillade762: Is it wrong to fark a chicken carcass before you cook it and eat it as long as no one finds out about it?

You've never watched Pink Flamingos by John Waters?

I have not. While I love John Waters I have never been a fan of his films. Is that wrong?

othmar		2012-07-25 03:28:00 AM

some_beer_drinker: how farking dare you judge me! being unemployed is hard work. handing out resumes, siting on the couch waiting for phone calls. i need a bloody vacation a few times a year. sometimes i go to Europe, or Florida. last year i went to Australia. next month, i'm going on a cruise.

i did not judge anybody .. no. i leave other people alone. *R's*

TomD9938		2012-07-25 03:31:20 AM

Deathfrogg: xl5150: KrispyKritter: WhyteRaven74: Only in America would someone, anyone, question someone else taking a vacation.

indeed. this bears repeating.

How do you figure? You really think it to be wise to take a vacation when the economy is in the current state and your boss most likely has a stack of resumes for people who would gladly start tomorrow to take your job?

Ahh, yeah, the Republican Paradise artfully described in one sentence.

Go ahead then and play your golf and drink your Mai Tais for those oh so important four days and three nights in fabulous Orlando.

Just remember, no one is irreplaceable.

As for the unemployed spanking it...

Who gives a fark?

YEREVAN		2012-07-25 03:39:47 AM

From AOL news, I'm surprised the headline wasn't Is It Wrong To Go On Vacation When Your Unemployed?

StopLurkListen		2012-07-25 03:41:40 AM

Goimir: StopLurkListen: No.

Looking for work is a full-time job. My state requires you to show what jobs you've applied to on your bi-weekly claim. Researching job boards, prepping for interviews, traveling for interviews, and the application process itself -- in my case, the last job I interviews for required a test, of which they expected ONE WEEK'S worth of output, which they would judge for quality as well as quantity.

So after this grueling schedule for several months during the worst of the economic downturn, damn skippy I needed a break.

But watch out -- the state unemployment office may schedule an in-person interview at their office at almost zero notice.

Well, you can be out of town looking for work. After all, if you can't find a job after several months in your area, maybe you might look elsewhere.

Pretty sure they have jobs in vacation spots.

With me, the irony was they left a message on Friday that I had to come in on Monday for an interview, but I couldn't because I was offered a job that started that day! And there was no way to postpone or decline the interview, and the beauracracy was utterly unable to handle such an event. It took two months and a judge to unwind my failure to appear and receive my last benefit check.

(I did get a nice formal judgement ib my favor with a "god DAMN the state unemployment office is incompetent" letter from the judge. Hells yeah: Unemployment is designed to be as punitive and painful as possible for the claimant...!)

VibroCount		2012-07-25 03:43:36 AM

And what if your spouse works? Must he or she take a vacation without you? Or does your spouse not get to take a vacation until you find work and stay employed long enough to earn vacation time?

libranoelrose		2012-07-25 03:44:53 AM

Shadowtag		2012-07-25 03:56:36 AM

I could use a vacation but I don't want to go anywhere and I don't want to actually deal with anyone. I want a Total Recall scenario without any of that pesky "find out I'm really a bastard and something's up with Mars" upheaval after.

/So basically, I guess what I want is a nap.

Huck And Molly Ziegler		2012-07-25 03:57:53 AM

If your mind requires you to "go someplace relaxing" to take a vacation, perhaps your mind isn't properly trained.

If you have books around the house you haven't read, belongings you need to throw out / reorganize, or walks you'd like to take in or near your neighborhood, you've got three "vacation" possibilities right there. Free.

untaken_name		2012-07-25 03:59:41 AM

VibroCount: And what if your spouse works? Must he or she take a vacation without you? Or does your spouse not get to take a vacation until you find work and stay employed long enough to earn vacation time?

Then it's your spouse taking a vacation. You're just mooching along.

The Tex Avery Chain Saw Massacre		2012-07-25 04:00:17 AM

This is the Mitt Romney definition of "unemployed," right?!

/I sound poor

swingerofbirches		2012-07-25 04:09:13 AM

The great irony of course is that she is paid for writing that article. Maybe she's not employed, but she is working.

Lenny_da_Hog		2012-07-25 04:11:49 AM

Huck And Molly Ziegler: If your mind requires you to "go someplace relaxing" to take a vacation, perhaps your mind isn't properly trained.

Thank you, Yogi, for your wisdom.

ApeShaft		2012-07-25 04:15:57 AM

In Sweden we have 20 days of paid vacation per year when we are unemployed.

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