Well, it was already pretty generous, but I won't deny that it's especially handy this year, since I have two trips to Europe planned. (Poor me.)
Oh, look at the pretties!
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Dana - Mar 29, 2017 2:11:14 pm PDT #9143 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Jesse - Mar 29, 2017 2:12:37 pm PDT #9144 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That sounds amazing. (Boss-dependent, I guess?)
meara - Mar 29, 2017 3:18:49 pm PDT #9145 of 30002
Wow. I feel like that would freak me out though. Like how would I know I wasn't abusing it?!? Or having people perceive me to abuse it even though I wasn't?? Though really, who couldn't use more vacation time? I get a fairly good amount for the US but...
Dana - Mar 29, 2017 3:39:13 pm PDT #9146 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I feel like that would freak me out though. Like how would I know I wasn't abusing it?!?
Ha, I was saying this to my husband over dinner. But I can't see myself taking a huge amount more than the four weeks I already got. A day here or there.
Jesse - Mar 29, 2017 4:12:13 pm PDT #9147 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, that would be nice not to have to worry about. That said, I'm usually the kind of person with extra time I haven't taken, and having a deadline gives incentive there!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 29, 2017 4:32:32 pm PDT #9148 of 30002
"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
Yeah, most years I don't use the whole four weeks I accrue throughout the year, and end up not being able to roll all my hours over to the next year.
sarameg - Mar 29, 2017 5:13:20 pm PDT #9149 of 30002
Neighbor wine night. Actual parade of us marching up Chestnutt Hill, clanking wine bottles and glasses. Awesome, as usual.my neighborhood likes carrots. And wine.
lisah - Mar 29, 2017 5:36:23 pm PDT #9150 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
That's what my employer does, Dana, and it is awesome
NoiseDesign - Mar 29, 2017 6:19:06 pm PDT #9151 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
I give my employees 6 weeks, but for all practical purposes it's unlimited.
amych - Mar 29, 2017 6:40:44 pm PDT #9152 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've never used up the PTO I get in my life; if anything, I'm usually scrambling to burn to stay under the point where I lose it at the end of the year.
(I recognize that this is not a good thing!)
Unlimited time off has gotten to be a pretty common perk in techlandia - the upside is not having to do the obsessive how many hours do I have left thing, and the companies that do it right really are more humane than most. The downside is that some companies abuse it - either by dangling it as a perk when workload is too high to ever take it, or using the fact that there isn't a fixed amount in the compensation package to avoid paying out accrued time when people leave.