and<\/em> get paid $80,000 while doing so. Oh the humanity, stories like this make me want to do something crazy and irrational with my health like go bungee jumping off a bridge or watch “Grey’s Anatomy.”<\/p>\nTurns out it’s not all good, she’s actually a lawyer and has been toiling away, working 14-hour days (with probably very little vacation) at a no-nonsense job for the past six years, and she’ll have to go back to it after the year’s up (if they take her back):<\/p>\n
Looking to cut costs like everyone else, but not prepared to lay off associates, Skadden [her employer] has chosen instead to offer all of its associates \u2014 about 1,300 worldwide \u2014 the option of accepting a third of their base pay to not show up for work for a year. (So far, the partners have no equivalent arrangement.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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