Tuesday, February 3, 2015

A Visit to the Unemployment Office, 1980

 Unemployment is such a frightening word.  You think that it will never happen to you.  You see the percentages quoted on television, but 7% or 8% means nothing to you.  It doesn't matter, when gas prices are high and the economy is low.  But, what happens when your job runs out, and you are faced with this horror of no work?
 You go to the unemployment compensation office.  And what do you find there?  Three groups of people--those who don't care about anything; those who are very angry over the system; and those who want to just get it done and leave.  I was in the third group.  The employees of the office were in the first group.  The older, more experienced unemployed belonged to the second group.

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