• venusaur@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    That’s the sentiment for “unlimited PTO”. They give it to you, but you know they don’t really mean it.

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    27 days ago

    Don’t forget that your employer doesn’t give you your legally mandated annual leave, it’s one of your basic rights, like sick pay (applies to the UK, and hopefully a lot of other places).

    <3

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    27 days ago

    In France 5 weeks PTO is the minimum. But depending on where you and with who you work, taking a leave can be seen very differently.

    You can also have more than 5 weeks but it hides overtime work behind that needs to be accounted else the company can be sued for it. So they sell you a nice job with lots of PTO but in fact they don’t appreciate that you may enjoy what they owe you.

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    26 days ago

    This seems completely foreign to me.
    My boss summons me for a one-on-one if it’s getting late in the year and I haven’t taken all my PTO yet.
    If I collect too much of it, or too much overtime, without using it, I can get written up.
    Sometimes it’s not easy either, with 42 days of PTO a year (plus unlimited sick days).

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        26 days ago

        Yes, if it comes out that lots of employees didn’t take their PTO, the company gets in legal trouble.
        Which means the bosses get in trouble.

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      25 days ago

      I just posted this in a different thread but I had a similar problem, except that my company doesn’t give a shit. Use it or lose it, I don’t get paid for it.

      Anyway, had too much so I started taking every Wednesday off. No long time off means I don’t feel like my work stacks up while I’m out, and I get a ton of shit done during the week when everyone else is at work.

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    27 days ago

    That sucks. I’ve managed at a couple places and the only time I’ve ever had scrutiny on employee PTO is when someone calls out “sick” right before/after a holiday (we know you’re hungover). And that was back in the day when I did retail.

    To the contrary, working at a small non-profit, they wanted us to pressure people to take their PTO so that they’d stay happy.

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    25 days ago

    in a lot of places where I live it your boss can make PTO mandatory to use because it you don’t use it they will legally owe you overtime, and obviously there usually don’t want to.