49er’s take a furlough

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This one is kind of important to me, because the Squibster is currently enjoying a day at home without pay affectionately known as a furlough day. Yeah, my place of business chose to do that in place of pay cuts or layoffs. Kind of hard to argue the logic, but it still cuts into the bottom line.

Now we hear that the San Francisco 49er’s are also enjoying some furlough days.

Will Michael Crabtree have to wash his own uniform?

He didn’t need to comment. If the employees were getting paid, it wouldn’t be a furlough. It would be a vacation.

Or, more likely, they’d be working.

So are the Niners having trouble making ends meet? Or are they merely creating the impression of money problems in order to bolster the case for a new labor agreement featuring decreased payments to players?

We don’t know and won’t know — unless and until the NFL agrees to open its books to the union.

We’ve said it before the launch of our NBC partnership and (if for no reason other than to prove that we haven’t changed) we’ll say it again: Profitable businesses that use the cover of a “bad economy” to justify laying off or otherwise reducing employee compensation fuel the downward spiral.

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Man, when even the pro football teams in the NFL are suffering furlough days, you know it is hard for the common working stiff to survive.

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