It Has Started....

Things are not going very well at work! As of yesterday they have given us the option of taking a voluntary furlough for a week at a time with the guarantee that you will have your exact job to come back to, which of course needs to be approved by your supervisor. How do they think that any supervisor will be willing to let someone in their department take a week off? They are also determine whether or not we will go on mandatory furlough over the holidays, Christmas and New Years. If that happens that means 2 weeks off from work with holiday pay. I would not be able to use vacation pay, therefor I am pretty much screwed. 2 weeks off, 2 days of pay for each week, what the hell do they think we are going to do??

They have also asked us to give our suggestions for cutting costs. My suggestion, well, suspend turkey's and wine that come in the company promotional bags . Really a 10 dollar turkey and a 3 dollar bottle of wine really will not make or break my holiday season. So as the economy worsens, I may soon find myself without a job. I just hope it happens after the holidays and not before.