Yahoo!s Call For Stories About Being Jobless Forced Them To Hire More Staff

In late June, Yahoo!’s The Lookout blog asked readers to share their stories of being jobless for 6 months or more.

The resulting flood of submissions meant that Yahoo needed to hire another staffer to wade through all the emails, The Lookout says.

That just means there are a heck of a lot of jobless folks out there.

Yahoo! compiled some of the best* submissions in a post that went up earlier today.

Some major themes: “sadness, anxiety, anger, shame, and despair, but sometimes also humor, generosity, and a quintessentially American determination to roll with the punches.”

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