If you planned on getting an on-campus job this school year and haven’t gotten off of your lazy ass by now to get one, you’re out of luck. Thanks to state budget cuts (oh, how I love the government), JMU is in a hiring freeze, meaning it can’t afford to hire anyone except for instructional faculty (yay, more professors!).

But luckily, JMU students can venture out into happening Harrisonburg, where they are handing out jobs like they hand out flyers on the commons—NOT!

It’s bad enough that people are telling our generation that there will be no jobs for us when we graduate—thanks to technology, baby boomers, and employer’s ability to screen our Facebook to see who they are really hiring. But now we can’t even get jobs to pay for our tuition, rent, beer, and that pizza you order at two in the morning after the beer.

Maybe if we all write a letter to the economy asking it to cheer up and give us our jobs back, our wishes will be granted. But after today’s sale of Merrill Lynch and the bankruptcy filing of the country’s fourth largest investment bank, Lehman Brothers, it looks like Mr. Economy is going to continue to be in a bad mood for quite some time.