Sunday, March 29, 2009

OMG! I can't wait for the reality TV show!

Facing another furlough, Gannett Digital's clever Laura Cochran joined employees last week using free text-message broadcaster Twitter to launch Furlough House Swap. The site's for workers trying to turn mandatory unpaid time off into early-summer vacations -- on the cheap. The idea: match co-workers willing to swap homes for one week, free, during the required months of April, May or June.

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10 comments:

  1. Ummmm. Why don't you explain what this is, JH???

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  2. Sorry about that, 2:27 pm. I've tweaked the item. And now, this:

    Here's my fantasy Furlough House Swap pairing:

    Retired CEO Al Neuharth swaps his Pumpkin Center estate in sunny Cocoa Beach, Fla., for any employee's underheated home in the dead of winter in Rochester, N.Y.

    Now, what's your fantasy pairing?

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  3. The person that thought of this should be hired to lead Gannett's web operations.

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  4. The furlough house swap thing really demonstrates just how clever and talented Gannett's employees really are. Just IMAGINE if the powers-that-be allowed employees this much creativity with their actual Gannett work. Hmmm. The company would probably have some major innovation going on , and more importantly, more big revenue streams to fall on.

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  5. Love to see Dickey swap homes with a circulation driver or prodcution inserter for 2 weeks.
    If not homes, just let Dickey try doing those jobs

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  6. Laura is as sharp a digital journalist as they come. There's hope for GCI when people like her are being hired.

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  7. Hoe 'bout Neuharth trade his Pumpkin Island home with the cardboard home of the homeless man he's rumored to have run over, back in the 70's?

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  8. Cool! What an opportunity for someone from with a week's furlough from Indianapolis to spend a month in Cincinnati!

    (Based on the old joke, "I spent a month in Cincinnati one week.")

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  9. I've almost finished all the design and coding for the Web site. Launch: Tuesday.

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