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...
I got stabbed, you know, right here.
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meara - Mar 29, 2017 3:18:49 pm PDT #9145 of 30002
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.
WindSparrow - Mar 29, 2017 6:46:46 pm PDT #9153 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Talk of time off reminds me I need to donate some of ny PTO to somebody. (We're allowed to bank 312 hours, I have 345. I think I might be able to donate it back to the company, in which case I might slosh some at the senior nutrition program).
Zenkitty - Mar 29, 2017 7:10:38 pm PDT #9154 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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.
That's me, too. Every year I say I won't do that, but I always do.