and other disgusting people. "Executives". Give me a break. These goons are overpaid exploiters of people who actually make the company work. Disgusting.

"Your position is no longer available."
This video was like the sitcom, The Office. Way too nice.
Most of the unemployed struggle.
I had my first unemployment experience during the 80s aerospace crash, and have been charging careers, starting businesses, and working temp ever since. I decided that the American Dream (house, kids, wife) was a liability in the New Economy.Up In the Air is a much better "recession film."A great lifestyle site (poems, stories, videos) is unemploymentality.com

Awesome. Advertising or the art of manipulation is a sickness on our society. That these people are finding ways to contribute instead of leach is a good thing. I already knew that making things and doing real work was satisfying. I already knew that selling lies was wrong. Most of the world works in hot factories and fields while these people sat in air conditioned offices drinking seven dollar coffee. Not until every single person on Earth has the same rights and privileges should any one of us feel content to be so vapid and oblivious. We have to conquer sickness, disease, technology, and space travel. How could anyone feel content in advertising. That would be so counter-productive to everything we need to achieve as a species. Advertising is a cousin to war. Build bonds, communicate and work together and we can overcome all obstacles and fly into the stars.

My story: This is my second lay-off in two years. On March 1, 2010, after 10 months as a senior designer I was let go due to a "change in job requirements". Prior to that I was unemployed for nearly 9 months after being with a company for a year and a half. In my 25 years of experience, I've been laid off 4 times. The first time was in 2003 when I was creative director for a small media/marketing company, then I freelanced or worked through various creative temp agencies only to be offered a full time job a few weeks or months into the contract, work for about a year and then find that the company can no longer afford to keep me on board. Most have been amicable lay-offs but one was vicious where they lied to the department of labor saying I quit trying to deny me UI benefits. I took it to arbitration and won. As I had kept detailed emails, logs and phone records proving I was told I was going to be laid off, then asked to stay on an extra month, then told not to come back when I called in sick one day and had to go to the doctor's. The following month I collapsed due to lack of oxygen to my brain and had to be rushed to the emergency room. But even since 2001 I've been dealing with serious health issues yet I continued working hard the entire time, dealing with the stress (which was making my illness worse). So at the moment I am trying to fend off the financial wolves at the door and try to get my health taken care of before I can't work anymore. This film gives me hope, even when most days I cringe in pain and stress brought on by health issues compounded by late rent and utilities, lack of funds to fix my car and take care of many everyday things.My hope is that I can find a way to use my many and varied skills and talents to rise above this mire, and reboot my life. I have come to realize what I must earn to contentedly get by... and it is not much. Keeping it consistent is the tough part right now. Good luck to all who find themselves in similar situations, and many thanks to the film makers for finding it their hearts to make this film. Thank you.

i have traveled in every state in AMERICA for my job,small towns big cities you name it.
bla bla international and I remember once seeing farm country that had signs up saying
we dont use corporate seeds I didn't know what it meant.......But now i know that companies design genetic seeds and then charge farmers to use them because they have the patents.My job pays me very well...So i cant knock corporations but it seems like today if you are not connected to a big company YOU ARE ON THE OUTSIDE LQQKIN IN.

This was a phenomenal short film with a very inspirational message that offers you the opportunity to pull make from you daily life and ask, "what am I really working for and what do I truly love. A must watch.

Being in a creative field myself with layoffs looming every 6 months or so and experiencing all the fear and anxiety that comes along with it, its hard to look on the bright side. What a great and inspiring documentary!