Something for the Dilbert files

This cracks L. and me up.

L. works at an aircraft supply company as an engineer. Due to the strikes and decreased production at a large aircraft manufacturer in the area, L.'s company has to scale back a bit. This year, the plant shut down the week of Thanksgiving, and will be shutting down the week of Christmas and New Years. People are encouraged to use their vacation time or sick leave to make up the cost of his mandatory time off. This is for the salaried employees. The hourly employees have been on a reduced schedule for some time now, and work only Mondays through Wednesdays at the plant.

In a "festive" effort, employees are invited to come celebrate and decorate a Christmas tree in the afternoon on December 19th. So, the salaried employees are the only ones who would be there since the hourly employees don't work on Thursdays and Fridays now. And they get to decorate in the late afternoon right before the plant shuts down for two weeks. That's going to be one dried out Christmas tree when everyone returns from their mandatory leave. Not to mention, this is quite a way to communicate how little you actually care about morale at your workplace. Classy.