The other day, my husband and I joked that when his unemployment runs out, he might be working at McDonald’s by the end of summer. The job market is just that bleak right now; ever since his layoff, we’ve applied to dozens of jobs every week—usually at least 100—and he’s gone on seven interviews. Even so, no luck yet, and the McJob seems to be looming over us.

We are pretty confident that he could work there, since he’s managed a restaurant before—but it just may not be that simple. It turns out that McDonald’s only accepts 6.2% of the people who apply for jobs at the company, which is even less than the acceptance rate of people who apply to get into Harvard! The source article gives an even bleaker percentage regarding the number of people who actually held jobs in 2010, which was 66%, the lowest record we have on history. If that decline was due to people refusing to work for corporations and instead growing their own food, making their own clothes, and bartering for their livelihood, I’d be all for it.

Unfortunately, I have a feeling that that isn’t the case at all—and any number of those unemployed would be vying for that McJob in a heartbeat.