Comment on Every damn day

• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My friend has unlimited PTO. He’s not even shamed for using it.

  I’m envious.

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Typically, people take fewer days off when “unlimited”, as they don’t feel they are owed any particular amount.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, in the US, employers have to pay departing employees for any unused PTO. If the PTO is “unlimited,” there’s (perhaps counterintuitively) nothing to reimburse.

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      • tkohldesac@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wow, I hadn’t even considered this. Here I was jealous.

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      • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s only true in California. Accrued PTO does not have to be paid out, nor rolled into the next year. Some employers will pay it out but it’s not a law. Except in California.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair! I suppose find myself with sooo much excess vacation time since WFH means I don’t have to take “me” days to recharge like I did when I had to go into a horrible open office every day.

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• orangeNgreen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m technically offered 10 days. I’m lucky if I use 6 or 7…

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it because they wouldn’t be approved? If I have leftovers near the end of the year I just take a few Fridays off, giving myself some long weekends

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    • orangeNgreen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, I think my supervisor would approve as many days as I want as long as I also get all of my work done. There’s always just too much work to do, it seems.

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      • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But that’s not your problem. If you cannot handle the work assigned to you, you are overworked and that’s the fault of your employer. I think what millennials and zoomers are doing is just not falling for the bullshit we’ve been living with for so long.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There will always be more work to be done. You can work until your dying day and there will still be more. Make your life worth living.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s always just too much work to do, it seems.

        I remember reading a quote from someone that said something along the lines of “No one on their deathbed ever says ‘I wish I’d spent more time at the office’”.

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        God, same. But please realise that it’s not your fault if you have more work than can be done. Take the time off to refresh. Both your mental health and your work performance will be the better for it.

        I’ve recently got in the habit of scheduling all of my time off for the year in one go. Sure sometimes I regret it, because I’m right in the middle of something when time off comes, but ah well

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The shareholders:

        o7

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the beauty of having time off is you are allowed not to care

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    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Consider taking alternate Mondays and Fridays, same 4 day week, but a 4 day weekend every other week.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So wait, those 10 days are just the maximum limit and not the minimum limit?

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are.

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• Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Use it or lose it.

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• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe you can buy more days off through the benefits system?

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  • zout@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can, and I do most years.

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    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      👍

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