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'Sorry you lost your job': Greeting card company makes new line of sympathy cards
Daily Mail ^ | 9/27/11 | Meghan Keneally

Posted on 09/27/2011 2:56:12 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Rather than just getting a Hallmark greeting card on a birthday or any old generic calendar holiday, the company is aiming to bring some encouragement to the masses of unemployed right when they need it most.

The greeting card giant created a line of sympathy cards that targets people who recently lost their jobs.

With the national unemployment rate staying steady at nine per cent, the company thought there was an untapped audience.

'People in times of need with always need to connect,' said Hallmark's creative director Derek McCracken to National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

'When the consumers have asked us for a way to connect in those difficult situations, we try to respond in an authentic way and we think that what the greeting card does is offer a bridge,' Mr McCracken continued.

Eight such cards are available on the company's website, ranging in their level of seriousness and humour.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obozo; recession; shovelready; unemployment
I guess we can't say that this administration isn't creating "new jobs."
1 posted on 09/27/2011 2:56:16 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Daily Mail has two titles for this, which didn’t fit:

“’Sorry you lost your job’: Greeting card company makes new line of sympathy cards for victims of unemployment”

“Greeting card company makes new line of sympathy cards targeted at job loss due to high unemployment “


2 posted on 09/27/2011 2:57:11 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Bush called us "vigilantes." Perry calls us "heartless.")
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Send to a dozen of your favorite dem’s this Fall.


3 posted on 09/27/2011 2:57:56 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Well......it IS condolences afterall.

Now if they put in conservative, small government, tax cutting messages inside, perhaps more people would start getting the message.


4 posted on 09/27/2011 2:58:10 PM PDT by onona (Yes We CAIN !!)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I would rather just buy a "Sucks to be You" card and tailor the message to an occasion.

I don't think it's too much to ask.

5 posted on 09/27/2011 2:59:47 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“Rose are red, violets are blue
I’m unemployed, now you are too”


6 posted on 09/27/2011 3:00:41 PM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Sorry you lost your job':

But you did vote for Obama!

Karma is a bitch baby!!!!!!

7 posted on 09/27/2011 3:03:10 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

The schadenfreude collection?


8 posted on 09/27/2011 3:03:39 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: dragonblustar

They should have one that says “How’s that Hope and Change workin’ for ya?”


9 posted on 09/27/2011 3:04:47 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Bush called us "vigilantes." Perry calls us "heartless.")
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To: SIDENET
I would rather just buy a "Sucks to be You" card and tailor the message to an occasion.

I would take some of those. In 2013 I hope to have a good use for them.

10 posted on 09/27/2011 3:08:20 PM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Lost your job?
Use you head when you vote the next time a%%hole! ;-)


11 posted on 09/27/2011 3:09:15 PM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: Average Al

you = your


12 posted on 09/27/2011 3:10:03 PM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“I should have given
you the five bucks I
spent on this card!”


13 posted on 09/27/2011 3:10:48 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: dragonblustar

“You lost your job, that isn’t swell
That vote for Obama didn’t work out so well”


14 posted on 09/27/2011 3:12:41 PM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
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To: rokkitapps
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'Sorry you lost your job':

I know that must be hell...

kind of like the day when I married Moooshel.

15 posted on 09/27/2011 3:23:00 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I wouldn’t mind buying one and sending it to Pennsylvania Ave.


16 posted on 09/27/2011 3:24:15 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
"Recession" is when your neighbor loses his job,

"Depression" is when you lose your job,

"Recovery" is when Barack Obama loses his job.



Gotta love the Gipper.
17 posted on 09/27/2011 3:25:42 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

This is disgusting.


18 posted on 09/27/2011 4:39:52 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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