re: People who don't use their paid vacation

We can rollover 350 hrs and sell back anything that we want over that if we choose.

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Que the live to work

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I was just thinking that. I'm happy for the small percentage that truly enjoys what they do and it doesn't feel like work.

But for the rest of us... I work so that I can afford to enjoy the time that I'm not behind my desk. The more time I can spend with family and friends the better.

I had a guy working with me who would never take PTO. He couldn't make overtime when he was on vacation.

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I don't get it.

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I enjoy my job. I still take time off, but I do it to actually travel. If I take off a random Thursday what am I going to do, sit home and watch First Take and The View all day?

My first job out of grad school, I’m working on a project for one of the company’s directors (not my boss). It’s November and I tell him I’m taking a couple days off at the end of the month and in December so I don’t lose my PTO days.

He looks at me and, as if telling me something I wasn’t aware of, proceeds to say, “Well, you don’t have to use all of your time each year”. Just kind of in a matter-of-fact way.

A little while later, I’m in the office late and I say that I’m heading home so I can see my kids before they go to sleep. He tells me “They’re probably already asleep, why the rush?” It’s like 8PM.

A few months later I accepted a job at another company.

I have no problem with people who choose to have a live-to-work mentality, but screw anyone who tries to impose that miserable crap on anyone else.

I get 5 weeks per year and can roll over seven. I've been at my company so long that I typically roll over right at seven weeks every year. We are also paid for our unused vacation when we leave. So I plan on leaving with 12 weeks in the bank and get a nice fat payday when I retire.

-2 weeks sick per calendar year
-2 weeks vacation per year (hire date, Feb 1 for me)

-Allowed to roll over 1 week of vacation
-Sick resets at 2 weeks on January 1st

I will be "sick" for a total of 2 weeks exactly between 1/1 and 12/31. I will take a minimum of 1 week of vacation time in the period.

Ideally I end up with 5 weeks total PTO at any given time

I'm salaried and they track us like god damned inmates.

I hate my companies HR policies. I'd take a flex schedule over a raise up to 15% at this point. I swear 30-40% of the year we are at the office just to be there.

I don't get it either. I know of people in my office that have thousands of hours of vacation and sick leave. I'm happy to have over 100.

Damn I just did the math and on 4 day work weeks, for 52 weeks it equates to 208 days of work. Yall baws need to get on board.