A new fad - suing others because we're unemployed

My mother sent me an e-mail yesterday with a link to an article on CNN.com - Alumna sues college because she hasn't found a job

The article details the story of a 27-year old woman who is suing the college she graduated from because she has not been able to get a job.

She alleges that the college's Office of Career Advancement did nothing to help her get a job. She is particularly upset that the staff in the office have not contacted all employers who list jobs on the college's e-recruiting web site and told them to call her for an interview. According to her, it is their responsibility to see that she is called for interviews.

She also alleges that the Office of Career Advancement is more likely to try to help students with grade point averages closer to 4.0. She has a 2.7 grade point average, but she emphasizes she has a solid attendance record.

She is suing for the full cost of her college tuition, plus (I love this part!) an additional $2,000 "to compensate for the stress of her three-month job search."

When asked by the CNN reporter if she would recommend a similar strategy to other college graduates who have not yet found work, the woman said yes. "They went to school for four years, and then they come out working at McDonald's and Payless. That's not what they planned."

I'm curious. Hasn't anyone told this woman we're in a recession? That the country's unemployment rate is the highest its been in decades? And since when does graduating from college guarantee you'll get a job, within three months?

Hey, I understand the need to lay blame. But this woman is old enough to know that life doesn't always go the way we planned. I certainly never planned to be laid off just as I was really getting a foot hold in my chosen industry.

So based on this woman's law suit I have decided that anyone who has been laid off should sue their former employers for breach of contract (regardless of whether there was a written contract or not.) All of us laid-off folks probably had solid attendance records, put in lots of hard work and effort, delivered on what was expected of us, but our employers did not come through for us. So it's their fault we're unemployed. It's even their fault we can't find another job because too many of them have laid too many of us off. Therefore they should pay us for loss of income and especially compensation for the stress we all feel from being unemployed and trying to find a job at a time when job applicants are flooding the markets.

What do you think? Can I find a lawyer to represent me?