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ramonajim · #**1903** 01-23-2009, 05:08 AM

Sitting at Heathrow waiting for my flight HOME. Only been on the road since Sunday afternoon, but it feels like forever this time - probably something to do with the fact that this trip followed that last trip after only 4 days at home.....

Digesting news from the company that includes a planned shut down each of the next three quarters (take a week's vacation if ya got it, it's a week without pay if you don't), cancellation of merit reviews for this calendar year, and suspension of company contributions to 401k plans. Given the general economic mess, and the number of friends and former coworkers I know that are now or will be soon out of work, trying to remember it could be worse. Much worse. That, and trying to remember that time off without pay is easier to recover from than a pay cut.......

Points to the company for directing the pain first to the upper echelon - directors and above don't accrue vacation, so each shut down is without pay for those folks; their bonus plan has been frozen, and veeps up are taking pay cuts.

Looking forward to seeing the row houses Darling Wife and her twin partner in crime looked at this week - sounds like there are couple solid candidates in the race to become the new casa de Ma y Ed. And turn the three of us (me, Darling Wife, and her twin bro) into slumlords