With challenges like the Fax Machine Toss, You're Fired Race, and Pin the Blame on the Bosses, the first-ever Unemployment Olympics yesterday drew a crowd of unemployed New Yorkers in the East Village. Proof of unemployment was necessary to become a participant, and competitors played games with the possibility of winning prizes from local businesses, like a $50 bar tab and restaurant gift certificates.
The event was organized by 26-year-old Nick Goddard, a recently laid-off computer programmer who hoped the mock Olympics would "lift everyone's spirits a little," and commented, "Originally, my thought was just to make people laugh." Check out what you missed at the Unemployment Olympics in the gallery below.
Max Mara
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When I first read the headline, I thought this might be the April Fool's joke on Savvy!
1Maybe if those people put the same amount of energy into finding a job, they wouldn't be unemployed...
2Wow, clearly the previous poster a...unicorn has no issues finding employment during times such as these. How convenient to sit at your place of employment, from on-high while speaking poorly about these clearly lazy unemployed persons. Jerk.
3I was kind of thinking the same thing, shydc. It's not as if people don't want to find jobs.
4For some reason, the only thing I thought of when I read this was the scene in "Office Space" where the two guys get laid off and they take the evil printer out into the field and destroy it while they swear at it...that's one of the best parts of the movie, lol!
5What a funny idea! I love the fax machine toss. Nice.
6cute idea.. how come i never hear of these events and im in nyc everyday? i must be living in a box lol
7OMG! I know of his sister, Jo, she writes for Glamour.
8that's hysterical. i'm in NYC and i didn't hear anything about this - but it would have been fun to see. my fiance is unemployed - he should have gone down there!
9I was laid off yesterday!! I shouldve gone hahah. Too bad I didnt hear about it.
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