Today’s post at the HR site specifically says we can’t substitute sick days or vacation days for these no-pay days.

Since I posted earlier this morning, I’ve learned that a friend was told the SAME thing at the West campus HR office that I heard at the main campus: if you’re laid off, you can’t collect your RASL. {sigh} Those people are soooo confused. Not only that, but when a friend called HR and asked if faculty on nine-month contracts would have the furlough days prorated down from 12, the person who answered the phone said, “Uhhhh… I dunno.” About five minutes later, the HR website was updated with a page that explained that yes, nine-month faculty would serve commensurately fewer payless days. Apparently, they’re not telling the HR reps any more than they’re telling the rest of the slaves!

I had the idea about sick days, because at that time you were afraid you’d lose them if you were laid off. This would have been a way to claim them. Luckily, as a later post indicates, that is not true.

I work at a school also, so I am watching this with great interest.

@ Neal Hawes: We’re being asked not to take all the time at once, because they’re afraid of shutting down the university. Plus we have to take them before the end of the fiscal year, June 30. Last night the local Play-Nooz ran a piece on the state unemployment office, which is so overloaded that it takes weeks to get unemployment started, and they cannot and will not speak to people over the telephone. The likelihood of actually extracting unemployment for the furlough days is probably pretty close to nil.

@SimplyForties: LOL! Those windows are opening so people can jump out of them.

Hoping this will be the worst of it.