Comments on: What Can I Do with My PTO?

By: grannybunny

grannybunny — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:04:47 +0000

It’s hard to imagine how 2 weeks of PTO in a year — especially, taken in small increments, as seems to be the case here — would seriously affect overall performance.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 23:38:38 +0000

In this economy, no one is “just lucky to have a job.” The OP should simply dispose of his/her current job and get a new one.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:32:11 +0000

How do you make sure that PTO plans are clear? I’ve always been told in interviews that “We have X days per year for sick or vacation leave, which can be taken anytime except, of course, right in the middle of a crunch,” which seems reasonable. Then I discover that it’s always considered crunch time and if I say I’m sick I’m suspected of faking it to slack off. How do you know, when a manager is on his best behavior in an interview, what he’d do later when “you’re just lucky you have a job?”

By: MariaRose

MariaRose — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:07:43 +0000

Again in reference to the make up time phrase, I think what the employer is asking about using the PTO time application to time spent not working to this employee who is, at least from my viewpoint, using time expected to be working, for non-work related activities. Granted this person is a salaried employee, which means they get paid a salary whether they work a full week or not, as long as the job is done. What people are not looking at in discussing the issue of using PTO is the question of how much of the time off from work, for other activities during expected work time, affecting the workplace. I have seen too many abuses of not using PTO when the person is a salaried employee to not question the why they are complaining about using it. PTO is there for use on any time off needed during expected work schedule, it is not “extra paid vacation” on the employee’s whim to plan when to use. Granted doctors appointments, etc. can only be made during most business hours and are a prime example of the best reason to use PTO. If this specific individual is using PTO in a different method that is affecting job performance, there’s reasons for the employer to ask if they can apply the PTO to the time spent away from the workplace. A clear concise conversation about the specific use of the expected workplace hours should have been already made clear to this salaried employee, who, if they agreed with the expectations, should not be complaining if they only agreed verbally, not expecting to have to be held accountable. If that salary payment expects a certain amount of physical presence during certain hours and the employee does maintain the expectation then the employer can ask if this specific employee has made it problematic for the workplace expectations and requires another employee to fill in the gap. No one is denying the use of the PTO but sometimes it does affect the cost of the operation end result. The decision to use PTO has to be a mutually beneficial solution for both not just the employee.

By: What's in a name?

What's in a name? — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:23:42 +0000

I think the LW is using the phrase “make up time” to mean if they miss two hours for an appointment, they would stay late two hours that day or work an additionally half hour the other days of the week.