"Once you've seen your friend laid off,
you'd much rather do the furlough."
-- unidentified Gannett journalist, speaking to Reuters news service for a new story about the spread of furloughs to white-collar jobs.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Why we'd rather get furloughs than layoffs
-- unidentified Gannett journalist, speaking to Reuters news service for a new story about the spread of furloughs to white-collar jobs.
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This is going to be an individual thing, I am financially ready to leave after only eight years and now I am hitting the road for a much better job. good luck to those who are left behind.
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly agree. I'll take the unpaid, forced vacation days until I can find a better job. I'll take the extra time off, use it to travel or job hunt, collect unemployment and still have a job to go back to. It's not an ideal situation, but let's make the most of it until each and everyone one of us moves on.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies... that should have said "each and every one of us"
ReplyDeleteMy fingers move faster than my brain.
Well, DUH! I don't get this group of postings at all. Of course a furlough is better than a layoff. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Again, what is the point of this????i
ReplyDeleteI have a furlough day tommorow yeah!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete3:33: I was laid off in one of the previous rounds. So I haven't had the pleasure of your current furlough. However, being laid off from this company has been the best thing that has happened to me. Looking back, I would choose layoff over furlough.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much companies that mandate furloughs are using fear to keep their employees in line.
ReplyDeleteFear of the economy, fear of the job market, fear of unemployment, fear of debt, fear of this, fear of that...
You know that companies in a good economy couldn't get away with stuff like this.
You and Reuters neglected to mention one important point: Journalists are blue-collar, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We're in it for the job, not the money -- unless I've been living under some delusion for a decade.
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