Zetmandu
03-19-2012, 08:40 AM
Well like most things go in life got some news that's both bad and good last week. Looks like my company is going on short time in mid April. We cant quite pull ourselves out of this recession. So they are going to cut us down to 4 days a week, not 4 days at 10 hours a day, just 4 days at the normal 8 hours per day, so thats an immediate 20% pay cut. That's the bad news.
The good news is that instead of working only the 4 days each week, there are 4 of us in my division, we are going to work for 3 weeks each month as normal, then one week each month each of us will have 4 days off and only work one day that week. Most everyone is planning to work take a vacation day that one day of the week we are supposed to work so in effect I will have one full week off each month now. I guess if it was going to happen, the summer is the best time for it. So hopefully I will be able to get a lot accomplished during that one week each month, of course the bad news is Ill have less cash to spend on it each month also. So a trade off I suppose.
The good news is that instead of working only the 4 days each week, there are 4 of us in my division, we are going to work for 3 weeks each month as normal, then one week each month each of us will have 4 days off and only work one day that week. Most everyone is planning to work take a vacation day that one day of the week we are supposed to work so in effect I will have one full week off each month now. I guess if it was going to happen, the summer is the best time for it. So hopefully I will be able to get a lot accomplished during that one week each month, of course the bad news is Ill have less cash to spend on it each month also. So a trade off I suppose.