KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT
A recently unemployed man has discovered the awkward joy of attending the movies during daylight today, as he looks for a way to fill the space in his day.
Having recently been a victim of the blood baths occurring across the tech-sector, former app developer Jamie Warmsley (32) has reportedly realised that he’s got quite a lot of time on his hands.
And thanks to a healthy redundancy package, boosted by 15 years of long service leave and extras, Jamie has told The Advocate that he can afford to take a few weeks off before logging onto Seek and trying to find a new job in the face of a looming recession.
However, after spending the last two weeks parked on the couch playing PlayStation and toying with the idea of building an outdoor pizza oven, Jamie decided he’d get out of the house and go see the new Avatar film.
Now seated in cinema 4 at the Hoyts at Betoota Fair Shopping centre, Jamie was surprised to see 12 other randoms, also ready to settle in for three hours of James Cameron’s nauseously blue sci-fi film.
“Jeez, what’s everyone else doing here?” Jamie whispered, ripping the plastic off a Honeycomb Choc Top and kicking off his shoes.
“Why aren’t these people at work?”
Surveying the crowd of assorted ages, shapes and sizes, Jamie landed on the assumption that everyone was either a vampiric shift worker who couldn’t sleep, or just a dolebludger looking to cash in on Cheap Tuesday tickets.
“Surely everyone here has gotta be a Nurse, or maybe they’re FIFO types on their off week.”
“Then again it’s cheap Tuesday so I guess we’ve all got to save pennies when we’re unemployed, it’s not a time to be reckless.”
