Furloughed
My one-week furlough from The Courier-Journal begins tomorrow.
Furlough, of course, is a polite if Orwellian way to say I've been laid off for a week.
Amusingly, it has other meanings. Wordnet says one is to "grant a leave to," as in "The prisoner was furloughed for the weekend to visit her children."
Another is "a temporary leave of absence from military duty."
Prison. Military duty. This is what journalism has come to.
It is not, however, how I envision my future, so I'm going to use the week to learn some new skills that will make me more relevant in a depression economy -- say, street corner apple selling, breadline waiting, odd jobbing and possession hocking.
Or Flex. I don't really know. I may just scrape paint off the old carriage house out back. I'm going to let my mood be my muse.
See you on the other side.
2 comments:
Thank you for peeling back the curtain on that ridiculous euphemism.
At least you get your all at once where you can do something with the time off. A lot of us in circ had to take it one day per pay period. Mine fell in the middle of my work week where the day off (x5) was more than useless.
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