What would you do on a furlough day?

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2000SEARAY280SS

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Today is second Friday I have had off. It has been kind of nice. No blackberry emails to check. No emergency meetings disturbing my weekend. No calls from the fleet requesting technical support.

The government has told me that I can not work if I wanted. No volunteer hours no contact with anything work related.

Before they told me I could not work on Friday's I often worked on weekends supporting the extended team and fleet efforts for free. Several hours here an email with corrective instruction saving technical teams hours of diagnostics and troubleshooting. Now it has to wait until Monday. No more extra hours during the week either. 32 hours and you have to go home or get special permission.

During these extra days I have been sleeping great, working on my boat, and vehicles enjoying the fact that no one can call me for work related emergencies. It is kind of freeing and relaxing. :grin:

The sad thing is they Congress and the President have most likely created a workforce that now believes 8 for 8 and the hell with it, it can wait until Monday.
 
If I got a furlough day .....that would cut me below 70 hrs a week
I do 32 hours in 2 3/4 days.
 
That was much like my weeks use to be not quite the number of hours but close to 50 or 60 a week. Now we can only work 32.
 
Just kick back and enjoy your day. Get some things done around the house and scratch 'em off your "Honey Do" list, take a nap, putz around on the boat, say "hello" to mama in mid-afternoon. Don't shower, don't shave, eat in front of the TV if you want, but just relax and do nothing.
 
Does it bother anyone else that while 85% of the Defense Department's civilian workforce are required to take furloughs our first family is on yet another vacation, this time to Martha's Vineyard. I doubt they took the Expedia discount.
 
Gofirstclass said:
Just kick back and enjoy your day. Get some things done around the house and scratch 'em off your "Honey Do" list, take a nap, putz around on the boat, say "hello" to mama in mid-afternoon. Don't shower, don't shave, eat in front of the TV if you want, but just relax and do nothing.
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That sounds like my plan. It is working out very well and I guess the president is taking it to heart as well.

This is only the second week and I just got my first furlough check for one day and ouch this is going to hurt.

It is amazing how much I am not getting accomplished going from 50 to 60 hours a week to 32 hours a week.

Does not look any better for next FY either.
 
Well today was FD#3 and I spent the day going over my trailer and tow vehicle. I adjusted my bunks for a more heavier load on the tongue. I had adjusted them back and that proved a little to much weight off the tow vehicle and made the drive a little squirrelly.

Started the day with some TV then a nap. It is kind of like retirement I suspect. I cannot wait until October when the new government financial year starts and we get to see how bad next years 52 billion dollar defense cut will be. lets see 650,000 employees will need to come up with 80 thousand each. I guess that will be the end of the Civil Service.
 
Mike, Enjoy it while you can, :smt001

I have friends in their 50's dropping dead from working too much. :smt089
 
Wayne

Very interesting deduction and all too true. I was at my Doctor's yesterday and I confessed that the daily stress has been greatly reduced. The financial side is a pain but I am not allowed to work and my co-workers cannot either. The extra hours have been reduced to next to zero and I get a full three day weekend every week that I cannot be called into work. This was not the case prior to furlough most weekends ended up supporting some effort somewhere.
 
I hear ya Mike,Theres cutbacks out here in this sh*thole state also. :smt021

Try to have a fun & SAFE summer no matter what happens. :smt001
 
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1376671592.523351.jpg. Last FF of this year!
 
Looks great! Enjoy the weather today as it's not supposed to be too nice this weekend!

Where is that picture?

Mike
 
What would you do on a furlough day? ..ahh be thankful to still have a job? Just an idea
 
I agree. Enjoy the time off. work is not your life. It is a means for the things we want but it should not now or ever comsume you.
I retired from the Army in 1992 and again in 2002. Made a lot of money in the private sector. Bought a boat (Sea Ray of course) and joined a golf club. I played golf seven days a week and boated in the afternoons. Got remarried and went back to work. Enjoy the time to do what you want even though the money is a little less than usual. I for one still believe that a 32 hour work week with defined goals is better than a 40 hour work week waiting on for the weekend.
As for next year - No furloughs. Reduction in Force.
 
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