# Lay Off Greetings RIP Job Cards Offer Condolences For Those Getting Sacked By TrendHead | Published 2009-04-08 | Pop Culture Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/getting-sacked-condolences-rip-job-cards-at-etsy References: [notcot.org](http://www.notcot.org/post/20386/) & [etsy](http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23273643) 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](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/anything-roots-post) 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](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/liquid-death-misfortune-cookies) are sold at [Etsy](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tarotandreading), 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! ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 3.6/10 - Popularity: 52% | Activity: 48% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 70% men, 30% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America, Europe ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Pop Culture](https://www.trendhunter.com/popculture) > [Internet](https://www.trendhunter.com/internet) ## Key Themes ### 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. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Convenient Online Greeting Cards](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/happy-tree-cards.md) - [Quirky eCard Platforms](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/happiepages.md) - [Cash-Gifting Greeting Cards](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hallmark-venmo-cards.md) - [Ranch-Filled Holiday Cards](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hidden-valley-ranch-holiday-card.md) - [Layoff-Tracking Job Connectors](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/layoff-tracker.md) - [Farewell Message Builders](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lastworkingday.md) - [Humorous Macabre Office Furniture](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/coffin-office-chair.md) - [Layoff Insight Reviews](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/layoffs-reviews.md) - [Greeting Card Kiosks](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/greeting-card-kiosk.md)