Welcome to the downgrade! Welcome.. come on in, there's plenty of room. We're all working five times as hard and making a third of our former incomes, life is great. Your back hurts and your feet are killing you but at least you're getting overtime. Don't worry, you still won't be able to pay your bills.
Welcome...Hey, if you're really lucky, you'll be able to find side work on your only day off, once again, don't worry - it still won't be enough to get the bills paid. Welcome. Oh yeah, joining the working poor really lets you see how many others are in the same boat. There's millions of 'em toiling away at underpaying jobs. No health or life insurance, no benefits whatsoever, some of them with no vehicles or licenses, just perpetually stuck in a week to week working/living hell. A lot of them have college degrees, had good paying jobs, houses, cars - the whole lot. They too have been welcomed. Come on in. Wellll-come. Need air in your tires? $1.50 for air, welcome. Now that you no longer have health insurance, good luck re-filling that statin prescription. You don't have $80 to see the doctor? Too frigin bad, go have a heart attack .Welcome.
We all knew it was just a matter of time. Take solace in the fact that you are alive however realize the complete and total financial nightmare you have entered into. Listen to the stories of countless others who have been welcomed. "...I used to have a Mercedes Sl and managed over 100 people in a region for a major corporation. - Welcome. ".. I did 47 interviews with 29 companies in five months resulting in no offer..." Welcome. "..I used to fly around the country and present to engineering groups, high level CEO's and utility directors...Welcome, enjoy your stay. Welcome. Welcome to the new economic calamity. We all participate in it. Now you're one of us. Enjoy that feeling of hopelessness and despair. It will pass soon, once you realize there is no way out. It's now just a matter of buying time on every financial obligation you have every day, week and month of your life for the foreseeable future. Go get a half tank of gas and feel wealthy. As you become more and more internally numb to all of it keep up that false hope of relief some time soon, even though you know it will never come. We are in America after all, land of dreamers and doers! Only problem is your "dreaming" is that of an extra hour of sleep before that 11 hour shift and your "doing" is getting through your shift and wondering if you'll get that side work on your day off..Welcome I say, Welcome.
