Now my job's getting in on the action...I've dodged three rounds of layoffs in the past two years, but there's no dodging companywide furloughs. We each must take 5 days of unpaid leave.
As with NT's job, my company is spreading it out to try and cause as little pain as possible. We're losing July 2, Sept. 4, Oct. 9, Nov. 25 and Dec. 23. They're all near holidays, so they'll result in four-day weekends in most cases, which is the nicest possible way to get furloughed, I must say!
I estimate that my weekly take-home is about $642, so that's how much we must weed out of our budget. We can do it gradually over the course of the year, so assuming this is the last of it, it's not that bad.
Two of the dates listed are ones that NT must take furlough on, so that increases days off together. Well, one of them I was going to take off, but now I can't take PTO for it, so that does give me one more day of PTO that I can take somewhere else.
Also, progress on my creative goal: I made a bit of "crop art" yesterday! I wanted a simple but interesting design, so I picked the logo that President Obama used during his campaign. I think it turned out OK, but there were spaces between the little grains in some places that were hard to fill in. I'll have to look around online and see how most people handle it. I tried putting tiny drops of glue and tiny bits of grain in, but sometimes the glue drops were too big for the tiny spaces and overwhelmed them. Anyway, I owe photos of dinner for like a month, so at some point hopefully I'll also post pics of my "art."
Oh and anyone who likes my dinner pics, I have been taking photos faithfully, but as I get further and further behind on posting them, I put it off more and more. LOL. But I feel I'll get a burst of energy one of these days and do it.
More furloughs; progress on my creative goal
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Gamecock LOL, it's basically like mosaic made out of crops, like seeds and dried corn and beans and grains. I'll post a pic sometime. It's kind of silly, but the MN State Fair always has a great exhibition of them. Lots of passionate political crop art in MN, for some reason. It's how subdued, polite midwesterners show their true emotions.