Vacation and Sick Time Question

[oldman]

I get 3 weeks vacation and 1 week personal/sick time. No carryover. The PTO gets used at an hourly rate ie doctor/dental appointments, sick days. The vacation goes in half-day increments. I rarely use up the sick time, but ALWAYS use up the vacation -- usually for hunting or fishing trips.

 

[dmclone]

I think it ******* sucks donkey

I've worked 15+ years at this company. I was receiving a little over 5 weeks of vacation a year. I always kept at least 250 hours in the bank for emergency situations.

I have one year to use this 250 hours, which would be hard to do on a normal year but guess what....most of my good co-workers are dealing with the same issue.

The ones it benefits the most are the ass clowns that never kept more than 40 hours in the bank, the ones who have very little responsibility, and new employees.

It's going to be very interesting to see how much time everyone takes. I can almost promise you that the best workers will take the least amount of PTO.

 

[Acylum]

I'm still waiting for the poll with the question, "Do you hate me?"

I have accumulated more time- off than I know what to do with also. Mostly because I don't have to waste time on finding vehicle financing.

 

[mj4cy]

My current job has zero sick days, zero vacation, zero holidays, zero vacation. I just simply don't work when I don't work.

I will add that I work from home and I run a division of our company, so yes I do have a boss (the partners), but they give me free reign for the most part. You'd think that it'd be tempting to just take a ton of time off, but part of my salary is commission, so that kind of keeps me motivated. I'd say I've taken a total of 3-4 weeks total time off this year including a family death, birth of a child, and a ski trip. It's hard to quantify because I often work later at nights after the family has gone to bed.

Long story short, if you value your job, you'll be reasonable with your time off.

 

[carvers4math]

Husband has given his vacation to people with catastrophic illness who run out of sick leave. They won't let him give sick leave for this.

 

[Sigmapolis]

So I was told today that my vacation time and sick time will no longer be tracked by the company I work for since I was told I am upper management (of which is news to me as I'm in sales). Any one else have anything like this? I just thought it was strange.

Since I just celebrated my work anniversary, I get to carry over unused vacation (110 hours) and 40 hours of sick leave. I work out of my house so I never take sick leave. So I have almost 6 full weeks of vacation starting now and my sick leave time will continue to accumulate to 120 hours over the next 3 years (maxes at 120). There is no way I can use that much vacation. I travel all over and have taken my wife on some trips with me, so going on a vacation is really not my thing. We are not empty-nesters yet either. I asked about cashing some in but the owner told me to roll it over. I don't fell right about having all that time as I can never use it all.

I am in a pretty similar situation, though I do burn a lot of them up with vacations.

Just take a few slow Fridays off. Make some three-day weekends for yourself.

 

[cycloner29]

Husband has given his vacation to people with catastrophic illness who run out of sick leave. They won't let him give sick leave for this.

Your husband is a hero for doing this!! I never heard of where you can give your vacation to someone else though.

 

[carvers4math]

Your husband is a hero for doing this!! I never heard of where you can give your vacation to someone else though.

Lots of people at his work do this. He works for the man so he works 60 hours a week and gets paid for 40 lol.

 

[cycart]

I think it ******* sucks donkey

I've worked 15+ years at this company. I was receiving a little over 5 weeks of vacation a year. I always kept at least 250 hours in the bank for emergency situations.

I have one year to use this 250 hours, which would be hard to do on a normal year but guess what....most of my good co-workers are dealing with the same issue.

The ones it benefits the most are the ass clowns that never kept more than 40 hours in the bank, the ones who have very little responsibility, and new employees.

It's going to be very interesting to see how much time everyone takes. I can almost promise you that the best workers will take the least amount of PTO.

I'm curious as to why employees who don't keep a lot of PTO banked are considered ass clowns. Also, why are the best employees the ones who don't use a lot of PTO? Why is someone not capable of using their allotted PTO and being a good worker?

 

[cycloner29]

I think it ******* sucks donkey

I've worked 15+ years at this company. I was receiving a little over 5 weeks of vacation a year. I always kept at least 250 hours in the bank for emergency situations.

I have one year to use this 250 hours, which would be hard to do on a normal year but guess what....most of my good co-workers are dealing with the same issue.

The ones it benefits the most are the ass clowns that never kept more than 40 hours in the bank, the ones who have very little responsibility, and new employees.

It's going to be very interesting to see how much time everyone takes. I can almost promise you that the best workers will take the least amount of PTO.

Just like when you volunteer/voluntold for things at school. It is always the same hard working parents that are doing the volunteering all them time.

So there are no stipulations on times you can take this so not to have everyone take it at the same time? Could put the company in a real bind if everyone decided to take it at the same time!!

My old job you had to give 3 months notice if you were taking more than 3 work days in a row off. But the family that owns the company, always went to the beat of a different drum when it came to that. Probably didn't classify it as a vacation just as a "company meeting". Damn ass hats!!

 

[NickTheGreat]

I used to work with a guy that had months of vacation time carried over. he technically retired in October, but quit showing up in February, and PTO'd the rest.

Now we can only carry over 40 hours to the next year

 

[vacyclone]

My company (a large bank) gives me 4 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of sick time, and it's tracked in the HR system for most people. However, the people on my team have to do a decent amount of weekend/overnight work in addition to the normal 9-to-5 hours, since we deal with high-risk projects in data centers. Because of this, the managers don't track any of our PTO. If we need to comp a day because we've done some weekend work, no big deal. As some others have said, the key is to hire the right people that won't take advantage of a system like this. As long as everyone is getting their work done and not abusing it, management stays out of the way.

Before this job, my only other job as an adult was the military, where it was obviously the complete opposite. Even as an officer, everything was tracked and approved, and of course I couldn't take leave for much of the year when my submarine was out at sea. I like my current system better.

 

[wxman1]

Your husband is a hero for doing this!! I never heard of where you can give your vacation to someone else though.

My employer does this as well. They sent out a notice just after Irma that we could donate it to that so those affected (we have a good size presence in Melbourne and other various Florida places) could use it.

Everyone gets 56 hours of sick time. 0-14 years of service get 3 weeks a year accrued at 10 hours a month. 15-18 (or 20 I can't remember) get 4 weeks and 20+ get 5 weeks. We used to be able to carry over 80 but that was just reduced to 40.

 

[boone7247]

One of the reasons people are getting their carryover cut down is companies are valuing employees, and believe they need vacation time. By not letting people bank weeks worth of vacation forever, they are encouraging you to use it. Believe it or not, they are trying to get people out of the office more. They don't want people taking one week of vacation and banking 3 weeks every year, they want people taking all that time off each year, as it is good for the employee, and ultimately good for the company.

 

[dmclone]

I'm curious as to why employees who don't keep a lot of PTO banked are considered ass clowns. Also, why are the best employees the ones who don't use a lot of PTO? Why is someone not capable of using their allotted PTO and being a good worker?

As far as the ones who don't have a lot banked, these seemed to be the people who would cry when something unexpected came up and they didn't have enough to PTO. This new system will be excellent for them.

At least in my field, the ones who have the most experience and/or the best workers are given the most responsibilities. I know some people who could take 3 weeks off tomorrow and not have a back-up in place. I know other people that need to find a back-up in case they are going to be gone for 4 hours.

 

[dmclone]

So there are no stipulations on times you can take this so not to have everyone take it at the same time? Could put the company in a real bind if everyone decided to take it at the same time!!

"As long as your responsibilities are taken care of while you're gone"

 

[CyStateOfMind]

Humblebrag much? Rough life you live

 

[jbindm]

Most people would love to have your problem. I know of people who get one week of vacation after their 90 days of probation period to be used over the next 12 months. And they may get 3 days of sick leave. My wife once worked at a job.....briefly.....that gave .4 days per month after 90 days probation that included Both vacation and sick time. So after 15 months of employment without missing a single day of work you would have 4.8 days to be used for either sickness or vacation. Told my wife to just quit.

Yeah, the company I work for switched over to lump sum PTO last year and it's been a godsend. Before it was split into vacation and "admin leave". You could only use vacation time with advance notice or requests, so if you woke up sick you could only use admin leave time to call in sick. Admin leave time accrued 1.25 hours per pay period, so the way it worked out you could basically afford to be sick or deal with an emergency one day every three months. So of course we had a lot of employees dragging themselves to work when they had no business being anywhere but sick and parked on a couch or bed, making everyone else sick.

 

[mj4cy]

Lots of people at his work do this. He works for the man so he works 60 hours a week and gets paid for 40 lol.

That's awesome what your hubby does.

I knew a guy from my church growing up that got 2 weeks a vaca a year. He'd always spend one doing a mission trip to fix houses for people in Appalachia. Always admired that.

 

[oldman]

Lots of people at his work do this. He works for the man so he works 60 hours a week and gets paid for 40 lol.

That's known as salaried employee. Overtime is free.