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.
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
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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
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 05, 2007 9:00:47 am PDT #1158 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I love the accumulated sick time, as I now have somewhere in the vicinity of 8 weeks saved up. I can take that in the event of an illness before short-term disability would kick in (which is a % of my pay, not equal to it).
Daisy Jane - Jun 05, 2007 9:03:29 am PDT #1159 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
After year 1, I have 2 weeks vacation. We get 5 sick days a year and discresionary days of up to 5.
I still have 10 days left.
brenda m - Jun 05, 2007 9:05:04 am PDT #1160 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
and sick time came out of our short-term disability time, which was 30 days.
They can do that?
Oh, right. America.
Jessica - Jun 05, 2007 9:05:48 am PDT #1161 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I used to have a ridiculous amount of accumulated sick days, but I'm using most of them for my maternity leave. (We get 8 weeks of paid parental leave, plus an additional 4 through the FMLA, which have to be taken out of our accumulated paid leave time before we can take unpaid time off. I'm only taking 11 weeks total because otherwise I'd have no sick days when I got back to use for doctor's appointments and such.)
Daisy Jane - Jun 05, 2007 9:06:31 am PDT #1162 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Hours-wise my main complaint is the unpaid lunch. It seems wrong.
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2007 9:08:37 am PDT #1163 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There was some weird thing here about buying more short term disability (which I did, because I've met me). Benefits are great here, and insurance is effective day 1. But no vacation or paid sick days until 6 months in, which is twice the waiting period at either of my last gigs.
Dana - Jun 05, 2007 9:09:27 am PDT #1164 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
They can do that?
Oh, right. America
Well, I never talked to HR about it, but that was what I was told. Since the STD was completely covered by the company, and I never needed to use it, it worked out fine for me. And I'm pretty sure the cost of LTD was quite reasonable. At least, it was when I worked there salaried. In the past four years, I'm sure insurance costs have gone way up.