All,

Please forgive me for my stupidity, but I've never been able to wrap my brain 
around this one.

I am filling out an application for a major corporation and on it they wish me 
to provide dates of unemployment for the last seven years.  That I get.  The 
part I don't get is that they wish me to provide an explanation for those 
periods.  Explain what?  Why I was unemployed?  I got laid off, or the contract 
expired or I got fired from the previous position.  Or, why I was unemployed or 
why I couldn't find work?  I dunno.  Am I to explain why a company didn't want 
to interview me, or hire me, or didn't get presented with my resume?  This one 
just dumbfounds me.  To me, this is just a stupid way to word something.  Oh, 
and by the way... nobody answers the help line.  Nice...

Any thoughts?

Tim B.