Losing your job sucks anytime, so with the credit crunch upon us, how do you cheer up friends who are rapidly getting laid off work?
You buy them a lovely sympathy card expressing your most sincere condolences for their loss. Perhaps they didn’t exactly have the greatest career anyway, perhaps it was time for that change, perhaps this is a real blessing in disguise.
These hilarious RIP JOB cards are sold at Etsy, come hand cut and folded with a blank spot inside for your own message and delivered with a matching white envelope.
Now hold your horses - you can also customize the color of the cards by choosing one from the chart in the photos above. Top class!
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Sympathy Cards
- Opportunity to innovate in the greeting card industry by creating a line of sympathy cards that are appropriate for those losing their jobs.
- Career Advancement Services
- Opportunity to offer services that help people who have lost their jobs find new, more fulfilling careers.
- Humorous Unemployment Products
- Opportunity to create a line of products that humorously address the reality of unemployment and appeal to those experiencing it.
Where This Applies
- Greeting Card Industry
- The greeting card industry can take advantage of this trend by developing innovative, appropriate sympathy cards for those losing their jobs.
- Career Services Industry
- Opportunities exist in the career services industry to offer new services that help people find more fulfilling careers after losing their jobs.
- Humorous Products Industry
- The humorous products industry can create products that address the reality of unemployment in an irreverent, amusing way.
