My father had unlimited vacation accrual, and when he retired (read: returned as a contractor at a higher rate) he had a year's accumulated, for which they had to pay him.

Government. Hmmph.

I accrue four hours of sick time a month (15 days max)...I wonder how much I have left.

There was a whole article in Readers Digest this month about government workers who retire and cash out their accrued time. Some of it was twice what they yearly salaries were.

We need to join a Buffistas union. No one is allowed to be annoying, offensive, or frustrating, and it is mandated we spend at least 5 hours on the board.

Love it.

I gave notice finally! So I will work my ass off in January, but then be free FREE! to do school work all Spring. Or, you know, screw around here.

How much sick time to folks get per year?

I accumulate 8 hours/month, so that's 12 days/year.

We get a couple of federal holidays, 2 personal days, 2 floating holidays, vacation time and sick time. For vacation, we get two weeks for the first full year you work, then 3 weeks starting the January 1st following your one year anniversary, and 4 weeks starting the January 1st following your two year anniversary. (During the first full year it's one week per six months, and then in the period between the first full year and the next January 1st, it's one day per month). For sick time, we get .5 days per completed month for the first 12 months, then .833 per completed month for the second year. After the second full year, you get 10 sick days on January 1.

My IT department is not reading the email I'm sending. OFF != ON

We get vacation and sick in equal measures, plus nine fixed holidays. I think the vacation has a cap at which it stops rolling over (but it is way up there,) but not sick. You can only cash out vacation. Noncontact employees here get 5 weeks/year each of sick and vacation, AND tiaacref, and their vacation rollover cap doesn't start until something ridiculous like 9 months worth of vacation time. It's taken me years to get over the bitter.

I get 20 days/160 hours PTO, to be used for sick or vacation time as I see fit, plus short- and long-term disability. It's up to the individual groups to determine if they want to count PTO by hours or by half-days or by days. I can only carry over 5 PTO days per year, but I always do. I'm hoping to exploit my bank of PTO days for the move. The amount of PTO you receive increases the longer you work here, obviously.

We only get the 6 major holidays, though. New Year's, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

You can probably mock up some form that will let us do that, right?

Possibly. HR is a skeleton crew right now.

How much sick time to folks get per year?

I accumulate something like 1.9 hours a pay period or something. You max out at a certain point.

Things are different for non-exempts, though, so I don't know how my time compares with lori's.

We get 6 national holidays, plus 5 personal holidays (which have to be used by year end each year), plus 2 weeks of vacation after the first year, you increase up to 4 weeks of vacation after 15 years (so I end up with 5 weeks of vacation total each year). Vacation rolls over to a 2.5 times cap (and then you and your supervisor get a talkin' to). We get 6 sick days per year which roll over until they cap at something like 260 hours. I think right now I've got 200 sick hours and 85 vacation hours. The only time you see any cash for these is if you leave the company and then it's only unused vacation time.

There was a whole article in Readers Digest this month about government workers who retire and cash out their accrued time. Some of it was twice what they yearly salaries were.

That's under the old system. We get 13 days of sick leave and 13 days of annual leave (vacation) each year at the start. The annual leave increases over time until, after 15 years, you start earning 26 days of annual leave a year. You can carry over 30 days of annual leave and unlimited sick leave.

The retirement plan changed -- around 1985, I think. (I started in 1988, and I'm under the new plan.) Under the old plan, you could add unused sick leave to your seniority when you retired. So you could easily get credited for another year or two that way. But under the new plan, you can't do that.

BTW, you can cash in your annual leave under either plan, but the absolute max you could ever cash in would be 56 days, or just over 11 weeks. Which is a nice send-off, but not 2 years worth.