Hurricane Irene 2005
The other day, a friend of mine told me that his wife was given a pretty significant dollar amount to take a year off of work. Not the salary she anticipated, but darn good to take the year off. Today in the NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/nyregion/13bigcity.html?em), I find that this is not so rare. This has “Permanent Temporary” written all over it.
Severance packages are one thing, but this is entirely different. Knowing that you have an job waiting for you at the end of the process changes the mood entirely. Plus, it allows these workers to focus on selfless tasks, like charity work and whatnot (some companies requiring that some sort of charity work will be done during this time). Very cool. Very PT. Let’s just hope they spend more time on charity and less time surfing.