unemployment

The people that have lost their jobs so far deserved it.  Look around.  Most people suck. Most people you work with can barely be counted on to fog a mirror, and we’re supposed to feel sorry for mushy entitled baby boomers because they’ve been dismissed from their bailed out, mushy entitled companies?   I don’t think so.  We’re at 10% unemployment right now, if that.  That means, that the 10% of the most worthless and whining and stupid people currently don’t have jobs.  Doesn’t that sound like a situation that would make things better for everyone?

If you were valuable to your company you would have been retained.   The face saving B.S. about ‘reducing headcount,’ or ‘ensuring that we can be rightsized’ is just to keep you from taking it personally.  But look: superstars are spared.  Companies are DESPERATE for a bright light.  And if you’re waiting in an unemployment line, you’re not a bright light.

But take heart: you DO NOT HAVE TO STAY A slug.  You don’t have to be a clutterpeson.  It’s a choice.  Here are some questions you gotta ask yourself–and be honest with yourself because it’s probably true.

• Are you relying on your degree for your justification, or your results?
• Are you working smart and hard?
• Are you easy to get along with?
• Do you get your work done early?
• Do you look for more ways to improve?
• Do you connect and help everyone you can?
• Do you uphold a fierce standard of excellence?

If you’re not doing this stuff, and you have no job, it’s your fault.  Hard workers have jobs.  People looking for jobs have jobs.   If you’re just sitting around and bitching about the state of the economy, waiting for a new Obama Bailout Check, then its your fault that you don’t have a job.  You probably carried around the do nothing, baby boomer attitude that got you fired in the first case.

Look: we’re only at 10% unemployment.  If you’ve been fired, ten you’re in the lowest 10% of results.  That should be a wake-up call. You are the problem.  Your efforts were miserable.  You were missing some boat, and this is not a time to let your EGO talk.  You were released because you weren’t particularly valuable.  You were released because you were a mess.  So –the question is: what are you going to do about it? Are you going to out think, out work, out hustle and out try everyone?

Or are you gonna whine like a four year old on a sugar crash?

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