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.

Yeah Fred, the people they were profiling were people who were just retiring now, so I'm guessing started around 1970-ish.

The looniversity counts my sick time in days, but the library counts it in hours. Since I've never taken it but in full-day increments, I'm not sure how they fudge the conversions.

I'll also note that the Brussels office is getting stiffed outta victory day. They were there! They were occupied, too! WTF?

I need to put this on my Christmas wishlist.

Both my meetings today just got cancelled. I feel adrift.

How much sick time to folks get per year?

None.

If I'm working, I do get a couple of paid holidays--pretty much all the big ones. There's theoretical vacation/time worked bonus pay that I don't think I've ever seen, though Jilli has.

My last sick day where I got paid was in 2001, when I was blowing through them post-layoff (I had to stay on for three months).

None here either. My last job gave two weeks of leave per year, and you could use it for vacation or being sick or whatever. Except, since you didn't accrue leave while on leave, no one ever actually got two weeks of leave.

Now I'm an independent contractor, so I do not get the sick leave.

Llove the Llama picture! The one towards the bottom of the segregated water fountains is good too, for a whole different reason.