Tit Whistle wrote:
Trained Goucho wrote:
That’s unpaid leave where they cannot do any work."
The bold part. Ha. I have found that the employer will still call you and hem haw around about wanting you to do things.
From what I understand about the furlough, this is highly illegal. If they ask you to do something or boot up your work lappy for any reason, they gotta pay you for that day. If they want you to work for free, I hope you're telling them where to stick it.
A few times i had customers call me and I relayed what they were wanting to the office. Then a few times the office would call and ask for contact info stuff for people I had made deals with in the past. (They didn't have a CRM platform like SalesForce or anything) This rubbed me the wrong way, cause it's my "value" and "leverage" but i gave it to them. The owner dude calls a couple of times a week to shoot the shit about stuff and I usually answer cause it gets kind of lonely on solitary lockdown with 3 dogs. Last week he called as he was going to cook out for lunch and invited me. I passed, mostly because he was cooking a wild hog he killed on his property. Have you ever eaten wild hog? It's not that great. Pretty tough and dry plus he field dresses everything so you get these hack job cuts of meat. Bleh.
After experiencing the furlough with this, I think layoffs are better as there is more of a finality to the arrangement. Furloughs leave you with a pathetic hope that maybe you'll be hired back. Kind of like getting dumped but still strung along.