Quote Originally Posted by divingbiker View Post
And that was after three weeks of being furloughed, wasn't it?
The second furlough didn't affect my job. The defense dept had a budget passed by that point. (As did a lot of other agencies, I do believe.) So my memory of how widespread that furlough was is not very good. Because mostly, it's just all about me. My work was shut down (other than the military folks) for the week in November of '95, but I was at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. I was, of course, all bummed out I was missing out on days off. Co-workers were quick to point out that I was in sunny San Diego and I should quit my complaining. I do remember folks from the NIH being told to come home and that their travel wouldn't be reimbursed if they stayed. So we all panicked that the same would happen to us, but it did not.