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Feb 15, 2009 by  Carol Forsloff - 14 votes, 12 comments
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There are those who see roses in the future for unemployed, especially those who get fired. A bishop sees those folks as having the opportunity to evolve to being better persons.
But how does one deal with home loss and medical bills?
The British Bishop calls getting fired redundancy, which is a formal, not commonly used word for getting sacked. Most folks in the United States would need context and plenty of it to understand what it means. A second thought brings the definition close. Could redundancy mean something repeated and thought of as repetition in a monotonous way, as folks say,” don’t be redundant.” Would it be defined as finding a job, then losing it repeatedly? That’s likely not it, of course, it just means terminated; but it seems as difficult to understand as getting fired being good for someone, as the Bishop of London, the Right Rev. Richard Chartes declared.
Rev. Chartres doesn’t do Blackberry or email either for the most part, so this is what he communicated in his traditional direct message to believers:
"Sometimes, people seem to be relieved to get off the treadmill and to be given an opportunity to reconsider what they really want out of life. One of the great implications of this turbulence for us is to re-boot our sense of what a truly flourishing human life consists of. The 'CrackBerry' culture is dangerously addictive and switching off from it is notoriously difficult,"
In the meantime Rev. Chartres remarked how many thousands of unemployed people his church is helping right now during the recession.
Well, let’s see how good for folks being fired is. It turns out that if it happens and you’re over 50, it could be fatal for you. A study has found that Americans who lose their jobs are at twice the risk of those who don’t for heart attack or stroke. This was found in a Yale University study of 8000 individuals over the age of 51 in 12,500 households.
Psychologists find unemployment a mental health issue. Dr. David Fryer found patterns in research results revealing that nearly 40% of those unemployed have psychological difficulties. This then increases mental health costs, which isn’t good in a recession. Fryer also points out that across cultures people who are unemployed not only have mental health issues, more than the employed population, but more physical health concerns as well.
So how is being laid off from a job good for folks?
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