re: Advice on negotiating more vacation time

It’s policy they can’t now Fmla is different you baw enough you don’t need the monies try that one or meet me at sonic you can take rhat short term disability to get your jaw wired back

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But employers sometimes don't give new hires credit for years of service in their industry. In that case, you can have a 15 year person getting vacay equivalent to a 1 year person because that's the current employers policy.

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Tell them what you want! I have yet to find an employer who won’t compromise or acquiesce to an employees’ PTO requests- if you’re worth it. They may not budge on salary, but they’ll accommodate you regarding vacation. There’s no tips to this. It either works for you or it doesn’t.

Just tell them what days you are not going to be there. If you are worth a crap they will say ok.

Going into a recession is probably not the best time to be asking for this. Also, if they can make it without you for 8 weeks, they may realize they don’t need you at all. All I’m saying is be careful.

Negotiating vacation when taking a new job is completely different IMO.

If I can afford to let an employee not come to work more days, then I don’t need that employee.

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How much PTO do you have?
Are there rules in place already, ie 5 years = extra week?
What type of job are we talking? Blue collar? White collar? Salary? Hourly?

Step 1 figure out what the average is for that role and what you want. Then ask. Worst they could say is no, and at that point you can begin the job search.

Yes. There are rules in place. But employers sometimes don't give new hires credit for years of service in their industry. In that case, you can have a 15 year person getting vacay equivalent to a 1 year person because that's the current employers policy.

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Many companies are like that. I went from a job with 5 weeks PTO to a Fortune 100 company that had a strict 2-week policy for new hires. It didn't matter if you were from college or an SVP. During the hiring process, I mentioned that I'd need at least 3 to make it work. My hiring manager told me that they didn't even track PTO, and if you got your shiat done, you could have as much PTO as you needed. I had 3 weeks written into the offer, but it was never even an issue.

So step one? Ask. If you have a history of getting shiat done... you've got a lot of sway.

That last one is the important part IMHO.

Trying to go in and use a new job offer as a negotiating point may end, for a number of reasons, with you effectively being told “Bye.”


Could work out wonderfully for you in getting new benefits where you are but being told “Can’t do that, I hope you are happy at X” means you really do need to take the new job at that point.