I feel you pain... Last year our sworn personnel had to take 56 hours off without pay and they expect us to do it again this year. We are the only employees in our agency who have to take the time off with out pay (civilians and detention do not have too) as well as the only employees in the whole county payroll. When a sworn employees leaves the county eliminates the position so it cannot be filled later when the budget improves and they froze all promotions so I missed out on that too.