re: I don’t know how people can blow through their sick days so quickly

So if a company just gives employees a bucket of PTO, and the person uses it all in the first part of the year. What happens when they legitimately get sick later in the year? They get fired if they get sick? Dont get me wrong, fk that guy, but is it not a liability to have a guy working that has no PTO with months to go?

I struggle with pto, personal days and sick days, we have tried multiple different systems, and I've come to the conclusion, people just suck. Theres no system that wont get exploited; you just cant hesitate to fire people. Everytime we try to make system more lenient, it seems to backfire.

Go out of your way to reward the employees that respect the system, cut ties with the bad seeds as fast as possible, and the rest will respect you more and start to police themselves as you say. That is my current line of thinking.

My wife has unlimited PTO at her place of employment. UNLIMITED

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My wife has unlimited PTO at her place of employment. UNLIMITED

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I want to say I have read that employees at companies like that take less time off on average. I guess no one wants to be the one that abuses it?

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Wow...you are a shitty person. fricking stay home if you are sick. You ever think you "getting everyone sick" may have led to a coworker getting their child getting sick and then being hospitalized?

I hate people like you.

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My company, a healthcare corporation btw, frowns upon taking sick days. Like I wrote, if it's not scheduled, it's frowned upon. You can't schedule getting sick, so frick them. Personally, I think they're the shitty ones.

They'll get theirs in due time.

They'll get sick for real and not have any PTO left, so they'll take a hit on their next paycheck. And this is the type of person who has no savings.

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y wife has unlimited PTO at her place of employment. UNLIMITED

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I had this at my last job. AMAZING.

Hardly ever took sick days because you can just schedule a day off if you want one or just need a day to get personal business shite done.

You still were responsible for getting your shite done and making sure your deadlines were covered.

Most people ended up taking 4-5 weeks a year. 2-3 weeks from Jan-Oct and then a few days during Thanksgiving Week and a week or two at end of year.

So there are actually people in this thread who don’t realize that the work not done by sick day loafers has to be covered by someone else?

For my company you only get 90% of your daily rate on sick days.

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We get 7+3 sick days a year.

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I get 0+0 a year.

Why give someone something and then complain about what they do with it? Either require that they meet some sort of standard to use the sick day, stop giving them out or quit assuming and complaining.

I get 10 sick hours per month and will get 14 once I reach 10 years and it all carries until you get paid out. I take sick time pretty much whenever I want but I'm not dumb about it.

You only get 7 days a year though. How close of attention are you paying to your coworkers that you know they're taking a 3 day weekend 1 every 2 months or so?