Two brothers enter the unemployment office…

After their pantyhose company had a dramatic decrease in sales and had to drastically downsize. Since their mother passed, John, the older brother had always been tasked to care for his younger brother, Nick, who happened to be mentally challenged. John had helped Nick throughout their life, up to and including helping him to obtain his job at the factory, and here again he was helping to steer them through the unemployment application process.


At the office, however, John was perplexed to find that the liaison they were dealing with stated that each would have to go through an interview separated from one another.


“Why would you interview someone who is mentally challenged when I know more about what he does than he could ever explain?” John inquired. “This is standard procedure, we require individual interviews to determine complexity of the job being performed to adequately compensate for lost wages,” the liaison retorts.


John walks Nick to the next room and they each await their interview, and after both are complete, they head home and begin a new job search.


Less than a week later, the first unemployment checks arrive, and Nick runs into the room to show John his enormous check. John grabs the check out of his brother’s hand and discovers that, sure enough, Nick’s check is almost double the amount of his own. “John, dis is so much money, I should stay on unemployment forever…”


Knowing something must have been mixed up at the office, John heads over to the office to inquire with the assessor about the massive discrepancy in check amounts.


“I’m just curious how someone that is clearly unable to perform much above manual labor deserves so much more than a mid-level manager such as myself?” John pleads.


The assessor proceeds to pull out the interview questionnaire filled out during his brother’s interview. “Well, Nick explained during the interview that his position is a ‘Diesel fitter’, which when we compared to other mechanical professionals around town, especially those dealing with diesel-powered mechanical equipment, make roughly 150% of what you made on a yearly basis, hence the large discrepancy in your checks.”


John looks down and sighs. “I told you that I should be present for his interview, to avoid these types of mistakes. Nick does no work with diesel equipment. His job required taking the finished product off the assembly line, and slip them over his head. If they fit and didn’t rip, he would report that “These will fit her”.