It Has Been Handed Down

Today we were informed that we would be on MANDATORY furlough the week of December 29th..ugg. That means we cannot use vacation time to cover for 3 days we will NOT be getting paid for! How nice, the say that they will be saving about $125,000 that week. Okay, so if that saves us from economic crisis that that's great. What shall I do for bill and food for one week? Bills will be covered, what about food or vice versa....As a parent what do you do? I could say that it is time to move, I always wanted to live somewhere warm, maybe there are jobs in Dallas. Wake up dummy, if it is like this here who is to say there are jobs ANYWHERE else? I do wonder though, one week off, 2 days paid, does that affect EVERYONE at my job?? Will senior management be subjected to the same rules? I guess we will never know will we.