Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Jun 05, 2007 8:20:06 am PDT #1148 of 10001

Oh, that was vacation time. Sick leave is 10/year, it rolls over and has no upper limit.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 05, 2007 8:22:09 am PDT #1149 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I've been here 12.5 years, and I get 20 vacation days, 5 personal days and 8 sick days a year. A certain amount of the vacation and all of the sick time can be carried over, but the personal days are use or lose during the year.

I started at 10 days vacation, but I maxed out on how much I can get a good while ago, unless I ascend.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 05, 2007 8:29:30 am PDT #1150 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am an admin assistant, but all people in my university, including tech people, get the same vacation benefits

After being here 6 years, I get 18 vacation days and 1 week PTO/sick time. I am hourly. At the same time worked, were I salaried, I would get 20 vacation days and unlimited sick time.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 05, 2007 8:49:37 am PDT #1151 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I get 20 days combined vacation/sick leave, though this year we get an extra bonus week in place of the shorter Friday summer hours we got last year. Which suits me much better, as I still have to spend 3 hours driving and $20 gas for days that end at 2pm.


brenda m - Jun 05, 2007 8:49:49 am PDT #1152 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I get 18 days combined sick/personal/vacation. At my last place I had two weeks vacation and unknown sick time - nobody ever called me on it, anyway.

For a person in reasonable health with no dependents, having it all lumped together like that is a pretty good deal. I'm actually probably less likely to take "I just don't feel like it" sick days because I don't want to spent vacation on it - but if I decide to, I don't have to fake sick. If you have kids, I suspect it's a different calculation.


ChiKat - Jun 05, 2007 8:49:57 am PDT #1153 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

At my old job, I had been there 11 years and had 20 vacation days/5 sick days/2 personal days. The sick and personal days were company wide and not dependent on how long you had been there.


Theodosia - Jun 05, 2007 8:50:44 am PDT #1154 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I would have been getting 20 days vacation when I hit year 11 at my former job.

::sighs::


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 05, 2007 8:56:21 am PDT #1155 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I suspect there would be more than the officially written leeway if I used sufficient sick days (or family medical crisis days) to burn through all my vacation. But I'm not eager to ever find out. As it is, I usually miss about seven days a year or so to a flu and the odd migraine I can't head off, and that counterbalances my difficulty scheduling official chunks of vacation time frequently enough to use it all up.


brenda m - Jun 05, 2007 8:56:57 am PDT #1156 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Yeah, I would have jumped to three weeks off + sick time at the old job instead of two if I'd held out another two weeks. And a few months later I'd have jumped again to 18 months or so off when I had to choke a bitch.


Dana - Jun 05, 2007 8:57:19 am PDT #1157 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

When I was salaried, I think we got two weeks of vacation plus 5 floating days (for holidays, technically), and sick time came out of our short-term disability time, which was 30 days.