Oh yeah, that sounds like the "unlimited vacation" bs that I've been reading articles about.

That's pretty much what I have. My team have the blended vacay/sick which does not roll over at all. That doesn't mean you get to take big blocks of time to use it up - it means it's on you to plan it out over the year so you don't lose a bunch.

I really only track my team's PTO so that I can remind them to take it every so often and not have a bunch banked at year end. And if they go over (it's 18 days, 23 after three years) I could give a rats ass. They're still taking time over the holidays, as much as can be managed.

I have 4 weeks of vacation and unlimited sick time. The unlimited sick time is still OK for me to take-- I don't think anyone realizes that once you move to salaried, there even is unlimited sick time.

I can roll over up to 4 weeks of vacation, but due to a bad boss 7 years ago, I always have to roll over the max, since I could not take vacation for a whole year, and I have never been able to catch up!

If I had vacation to use up I would be taking a day a week.

I actually took a half day a week for a year just to get it down to the rollover! But it was really difficult to get my work done and I am salaried, so it was kind of moot. I think that when I got promoted I also got another boatload of vacation dumped in there somewhere.

I generally end up with a lot of leftover vacation after working here for 8 years. We can only take a week at a time, so I'm taking quarterly vacations.

Dammit, why are naps considered unprofessional? I could be so much more professional if they let me take a 20 minute nap.

Dammit, why are naps considered unprofessional? I could be so much more professional if they let me take a 20 minute nap.

I know! There's even studies that back this up. I guess the important thing is to always appear professional, even if you could be more professional doing something else.

I have an embarrassingly large amount of PTO. To the point where I have trouble using it up. (We're only allowed 5 days of rollover so I generally wind up taking a lot of random 3-day weekends towards the end of the year and then a week in February.)

Sick days we get 6 per year, but we can roll them over indefinitely up to a maximum of 18 days/year, so it's essentially unlimited. The only time I've ever used all my available leave was when I took maternity leave.

It *almost* makes up for the crappy salary and bullshit red tape. Almost.

I guess the important thing is to always appear professional, even if you could be more professional doing something else.

I genuinely do not know what people did to look busy all the time before the internet.

I just realized that my vacation day pool is my sick day pool. If I get really sick, it can kick my vacation plans in the teeth. Fortunately, I have so much now that even with quarterly vacations I have several days left over for sickness.

edit: My department, tech support, also works on the typical company holidays because of support requirements. It makes parking easier on those days but can be a grind. I haven't had a job where holidays are actual holidays in over a decade.