Unemployment Cooties
fear of interacting with an unemployed person for fear that whatever caused him or her to be unemployed will transfer to you. originally used by john stewart on the daily show.
after i lost my job, all of my “friends” suddenly became too busy to spend time with me. i guess i have unemployment cooties.
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the conflicting emotions one faces when one discovers that they have been terminated. first is a feeling of euphoria then dread, then mixed emotions that cycle frequently. “john, you’re fired you jack-ss!” (john smiles a crooked smile) “what’s wrong with you john?” “unemployment ecstasy despair, boss”
- unemployment guilt
when one feels guilty for doing nothing all day because they are unemployed. “hey, how’s your day going?” “ok – i woke up at 11am but now feel a large amount of unemployment guilt.”
- Unemployment Office
a state agency where the unemployed go to get unemployment benefits, under the pretense that they are looking for work. to go along with the pretense of the unemployed, bureaucrats usually try to get peeps to call the unemployment office the opposite of what it is, with euphemisms such as employment development department, in california.
- unemployment weight
the act of putting on weight because you are unemployed and lazy. wow, cadle really added a lot of unemployment weight during his unemployment.
- unempowered
1). the state of being unempowered. 2). lacking empowerment. not having the authority to sign the contract, we were feeling unempowered.