By a fired 36-year-old
Why should I be called unemployed? Why should I be responsible for a situation I did not choose?
Almost since the day I was sacked this question has been running in my mind. So my proposal is that we should not say we are unemployed but speak the truth: we have been fired. Some people thought we are dispensable. Well they are the ones who should carry the guilt they loaded us with. The guilt is all theirs
I was fired almost three years ago. Thanks for hosting me.
Fired, 36 yrs
The ‘Unemployed Diaries’ (ImerologioAnergou.gr in greek) started out as 17 brief texts scattered in Christoforos Kasdaglis's book 'Anonymous Bankrupts' (Kastaniotis editions, 2012). The unemployed from across Greece, eponymous and anonymous, will be continuing the narrative by writing here. It is a volunteer initiative with the aim of breaking the taboo of shame and giving the unemployed a stage, so that they express themselves, recording their experiences in texts of up to 350 words. An internet venture that aspires to muster varied communication channels in order to maximize the result – that the unemployed find a voice which the dominant mainstream media and the political system have taken away from them.