Lots of talk about furloughs and notices being sent. My FO is all wierded-out over it. He’s now a couple hundred numbers from the bottom. Every 20 minutes, he’s asking me “so uh — what do you thing is going to happen with the company?”. I’ve put every positive spin on it that I can think of. Poor bastard. He’s loosing sleep.

Speaking of cuts… I witnessed a rather morbid cost saving measure. I had e-mailed a request to technical pubs to send me replacement charts for the well worn ones in my manual. They arrived and I discovered them to be used! Cannibalized from some poor sod terminated or laid off you suppose? While I’m all in favor of recycling, I feel repulsed that they came from an organ donor.