Well maybe the answer is to stick with PTO but gives WAY MORE OF IT!
Our PTO is pretty standard, I think, but I lost vacation time when we converted from separate vacation/sick to combined PTO. But the company is generally pretty generous and flexible so I don't bitch about it. I can work at home when I'm not feeling great but not incapacitated and we can make up time off w/in a pay period so it's worked out okay for me.
Well maybe the answer is to stick with PTO but gives WAY MORE OF IT!
Yeah, one of the problem's I have noticed with people who get PTO is they get far less time in general than people with separate sick/vacation time.
Yeah, actually, we are pretty flexible too. But it varies WIDELY by department. So while my boss is awesome and pushes me to take comp time, etc, the finance group, for instance, is run by a sexist, old-school jerk who really doesn't allow for any flexibility. So our system doesn't work for people who work for jerks.
Yeah, one of the problem's I have noticed with people who get PTO is they get far less time in general than people with separate sick/vacation time.
Yep. Ours is 3 weeks, 4 weeks after 5 years.
I think that combined PTO encourages people to work when they're sick. OTOH, it makes it easier for parents when their kids are sick, for example.
I think my company allows parents to claim sick time when they are staying home for their kids.
Of course, I have over 600 hours of sick leave, but whatev.
I'm about up there too. Luckily, I can use it as a precursor to short/long term disability (which I think is only a percentage of my salary).
I had one boss who was awesome with the time off thing.
He is an honest to goodness genius...which has its up and down sides.
Upside: I have no brain space for your mortal concerns. Do your job. It's done? Great. Go away.
Downside: Having important conversations with his eyes locked on mine, certain that he was getting every necessary morsel...right before he turned heel and walked away having not heard a single syllable for the previous 5 minutes while he advanced cold fusion in his head.
Yep. Ours is 3 weeks, 4 weeks after 5 years.
TCG gets 3 weeks vacation time and 4 weeks after 5 years, plus 1 1/4 sick day per month. The sick time accumulates year after year, so if he ever needed a surgery like you did, he would have more than enough sick time (which he never uses) to cover it and not have to worry about using vacation time.
The sick time accumulates year after year, so if he ever needed a surgery like you did, he would have more than enough sick time (which he never uses) to cover it and not have to worry about using vacation time.
See now? Thass what I'm talking about, Willis!!
My employer is pretty generous with time off. I think I have 28 days of vacation now, having been there over ten years, and everyone gets 12 days sick per year. Sick time accrues without limit; unused sick days roll into "EIFM Sick time" which is to be used when a family member is sick or we need to do something for someone else. My boss is pretty laissez faire about it all; as long as the work gets done, she doesn't care if we're REALLY TRULY sick or whatever. We can only carry over 10 days vacation time into the next year, though, which ends up with half the department having to take "emergency" vacation days in December or lose them. Since I hardly ever take sick days (I have to be too sick to focus; if I can sit up on the couch I can work) I have about 40 days of combined time off right now. Shoot, I could be gone for a month! Maybe I will.
Wow, zenkitty, that's awesome for you!!