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Funny story: Boss' Day Celebrations Marred by Workers' Refusal to Honor Bosses

Boss' Day Celebrations Marred by Workers' Refusal to Honor Bosses

Workers today found ways to make their dissatisfaction with their jobs known by such random acts of worker disobedience as refusal to make the morning coffee, forgetting to stop off for doughnuts on the way into work, and conveniently allowing paper...

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Funny story: Unemployment at all time low...

Unemployment at all time low...

...in Afghanistan. Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban, a US Senate report says. Some 26,000 private security personnel, mostly Afghans, operate in Afghanistan paid for from the U.

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Funny story: British Rail Workers in Work to Rule

British Rail Workers in Work to Rule

British Rail workers have been working to rule in support of their latest 57% pay claim. Workers have been arriving at work on time, not taking 'sickies' and driving trains at the correct speed whilst observing signals. BR managers say that for...

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Funny story: New Call Centres to Open

New Call Centres to Open

In a measure to further reduce the unemployment rate, George Osbourne has announced that the UK will be opening brand new call centres for all small businesses. The Shadow Chancellor was quoted as saying "We're going to be opening brand new, state...

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Funny story: Limited success for new Jobseekers Allowance Queuebuster tickets

Limited success for new Jobseekers Allowance Queuebuster tickets

The government's latest attempt to improve services to the increasing numbers of unemployed by introducing queuebusters tickets has met with limited success. The tickets, which costs just £20, allow jobseekers to skip to the front of the line, ens...

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Funny story: 1 in 30 Brits have never had a job

1 in 30 Brits have never had a job

Shocking new figures reveal that almost 1.4 million Brits have never done an honest day's work in their lives. The report, which was released by the Ministry for Welfare Payments and the Workshy, is a damning indictment of the lifestyle choices many...

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Funny story: Former Indian beggar & homeless man who founded million-dollar hotel empire by street-begging joins faculty of top university to teach course on "Street-Begging as a highly lucrative career"

Former Indian beggar & homeless man who founded million-dollar hotel empire by street-begging joins faculty of top university to teach course on "Street-Begging as a highly lucrative career"

That age-old mantra, "It's the economy stupid" has been growing in resonance across the world. And while words like TARP; stimulus; bail-out and sub-prime have become part of our everyday lexicon, ordinary people are being forced into situations uni...

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Funny story: UK Workers Quitting In Droves As Employers Try To Take Advantage Of Recession

UK Workers Quitting In Droves As Employers Try To Take Advantage Of Recession

Newly released figures reveal that British workers are quitting their jobs in droves this month, as unscrupulous employers attempt to cash in on the recession. After two years of being badgered, treated like shit, chopped and changed all over the...

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Funny story: President Obama Honors Labor Day By Making a Personal Visit to All 975 US Workers

President Obama Honors Labor Day By Making a Personal Visit to All 975 US Workers

WASHINGTON, DC - President Barack Hussein Obama announced today that he would be visiting all 975 US workers to thank them personally for their hard work. The 47-state tour will begin Monday (Labor Day) and will take approximately six days to comp...

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Funny story: Unemployment claims drop

Unemployment claims drop

Unemployment claims have dropped for the second week in a row. The Obama administration was quick to take credit for the lower unemployment claims. "The figures don't lie!" stated one unidentified official. How can the citizens of this great coun...

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Funny story: National Stay Home from Work Day Boycott Gaining Momentum

National Stay Home from Work Day Boycott Gaining Momentum

While the Tea Baggers are busy off rallying for their causes, the Populist Party has come up with what they believe is a more effective way to get the attention of big corporate interests to pay attention to just how unhappy and underpaid their worke...

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Funny story: 10 Questions You Should Never Ask at a Job Interview.

10 Questions You Should Never Ask at a Job Interview.

"We have an unemployment problem in this country because job seekers continue to ask dumb questions. It has nothing to do with the economy." So says Fred Erator, author of "Why The F--k Do You Think I'm Not Hiring You?" out today. "People want to hire someone that can do the job, sure, but also someone they can tolerate," continues Erator. "I mean, I could hire my wife to be my secretary, but I...

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Funny story: Nottingham job centre - New Rules

Nottingham job centre - New Rules

Reporter Inchcock Chambers has completed his investigation into the new proposed rules to be brought in by the Con/Dem Government, covering the requirements of Unemployed Benefit Seekers applying to the job centre. These details were as copied from an original hand written minutes book of the Benefits Agency Managers, taken at the Nags Head, and left behind at closing time. Rule 203847/a: "...

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Funny story: Professional Slacker Leaning Toward Retirement

Professional Slacker Leaning Toward Retirement

FORT WAYNE, IN (HGN) - John Dunham is ready to hang it up, and get to work, or at least that's what his parents are hoping. Dunham graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2001 and seems to be losing interest in being a dead-beat lately. He spent ti...

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Funny story: Template for Job Rejection Reply

Template for Job Rejection Reply

Advice from our reporter Inchcock Chambers, from personal experience of having been rejected himself for the last 204 jobs he's applied for: The next time you get a rejection letter from a hoped-for employer or publisher, just send them the following: Dear [name of the person who signed the rejection letter], Thank you for your letter of [date of the rejection letter]. After careful consi...

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Funny story: Nurses and Teachers to bail out bankers.

Nurses and Teachers to bail out bankers.

Public sector workers are furious with new terms and conditions of employment which will see them leading the changes needed to cut the public defecit,and bail out fat cat bankers. Teachers and nurses have been advised that they are no longer able...

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Funny story: Immigrant steals British man's job at knifepoint

Immigrant steals British man's job at knifepoint

The police have launched an extensive nationwide manhunt for the man they believe responsible for stealing a British man's job at knife point. A Scotland Yard spokesman said; "Kinfe crime is one thing but to steal a man's livelihood is beyond evil. W...

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