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Unemployment Claims Crash State Web Sites

Posted by samzenpus on from the sell-your-computer dept.

1sockchuck writes "A sign of the times: a surge in filings for unemployment benefits has crashed online application systems in four states this week. Web sites in Ohio, New York, Kentucky and North Carolina have been knocked offline by unusually high volumes of jobless claims. Phone applications systems appearing to be faring even worse in many states. The thin silver lining: states are hiring workers for phone banks and buying new servers to prop up their web sites."

2 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. Re:HUH?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was sweating the other day and I noticed that my armpit smelled like my girlfriend's vagina. In a moment of clarity I realized that I had no girlfriend and had been performing cunnilingus on my own armpit all these years.

  2. Re:HUH?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not unemployed, but here's my story:

    I dropped a brown rope this morning the size of a small black child. At one point, I wasn't sure if I was taking a shit, or it the shit was taking me. And while I'm on that point, what's the deal with taking a shit? Shouldn't it be leaving a shit? I'm certainly not taking anything with me when I'm done.

    But back on topic, unemployment sucks ass