re: How much pto used in one sitting is too much?

One company I worked for would give you comp time. I accumulated a lot of it and tried to get them just to pay me off for it. Never really got an answer. I tried to get them to trade some of it for a new computer. Never really got an answer. I kept getting the feeling that they would come up with some reason to wipe it off the books at the end of the year, and I'd get nothing. Talked about it with a co-worker who had a similar accrual. So, I turned in a 17-week vacation request in April, that basically said, see you in September. Management freaked, told me to take off two weeks, and they would figure it out. I came back after two weeks and there was still no definitive answer. In October, I got a nice raise. Perfect timing because I was just about to resign and take another job. Turned in my resignation a short time later and they had to pay out the remaining 15 weeks at the higher salary.