Would you use PTO for this kind of appointment?

[Anonymous]

Our official PTO policy for says not PTO (specifically sick time) is not needed for short doctor's appointments. Would you assume this includes aesthetics? Coworker says no way they meant this for Botox, even if a nurse or doctor is performing it. I personally feel like it raises too many questions to use it for a two hour appointment.

[Anonymous]

Pto is your to use. No need to specify what its for. Take a long lunch, go have sex with your husband in a hotel room, shop at ikea, visit your kids school.
We have separate sick leave for dr appts but managers cant ask about health status so cant actually ask if someone used their sick for a dr appt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pto is your to use. No need to specify what its for. Take a long lunch, go have sex with your husband in a hotel room, shop at ikea, visit your kids school.
We have separate sick leave for dr appts but managers cant ask about health status so cant actually ask if someone used their sick for a dr appt.

Not the case in this situation, where sick time is split out from personal time and vacation time. No one uses sick time unless they are actually sick, but I'm finding there's a range between "at the doctor" and "out sick."

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't advertise that you're doing it, but yes, I would use this for aesthetics. They can't ask sooo

[Anonymous]

If the question is “can i use sick leave for botox because a dr is doing it” i would say no but i wouldn’t be shocked if people did.

[Anonymous]

Not sure I understand the question? If your companys says you don't need to use PTO for short appointments, sounds like you're free to take a short appointment in the day regardless of what it's for? Botox, dentist, school conference, meeting a contractor....

I only put in PTO if I'll be out a half day or close to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I understand the question? If your companys says you don't need to use PTO for short appointments, sounds like you're free to take a short appointment in the day regardless of what it's for? Botox, dentist, school conference, meeting a contractor....

I only put in PTO if I'll be out a half day or close to it.

We don't need to use it for doctor's appointments. Any other appointment, we do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I understand the question? If your companys says you don't need to use PTO for short appointments, sounds like you're free to take a short appointment in the day regardless of what it's for? Botox, dentist, school conference, meeting a contractor....

I only put in PTO if I'll be out a half day or close to it.

We don't need to use it for doctor's appointments. Any other appointment, we do.

If you don’t need to use it for doctor appointments, then anything a doctor does counts…Botox, fertility treatments, face lifts, nose jobs, MedSpa stuff, psychiatrist appointments, etc.

[Anonymous]

Posts like this always leave me wondering if the people saying "no you can't do that you're stealing from your employer if you use sick leave for anything other than life threatening illness or major surgery" on this thread are the same people on other threads (like the "quiet quitting" one) who see zero problem with your employer expecting you to answer phone calls and emails at 11pm because "you're salaried, that's what you have to expect."

If it's OK for an employer to expect you to work during your off hours when they need it, it should be OK for you to not work during your on hours when you need it. Salary needs to go both ways or else it's just stealing free labor.

[Anonymous]

For me it depends on if I am expecting to have a lot of extra PTO or conserving it. The real benefit of using medical is that it is sort of protected and rarely turned down. I use botox for migranes and also for wrinkles so I feel like i could justify it either way especially since it is a nurse practioner or doctor that I am seeing.

[Anonymous]

I would not call 2 hours a "short" appointment. Yes I would use PTO unless I could just make up the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not call 2 hours a "short" appointment. Yes I would use PTO unless I could just make up the time.

Any doctor's appointment is two hours between logging out, getting to the car, driving across town, signing in, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not call 2 hours a "short" appointment. Yes I would use PTO unless I could just make up the time.

Any doctor's appointment is two hours between logging out, getting to the car, driving across town, signing in, etc.

She said the appt is 2 hrs. It would be 3, almost a half day, by the time she does all the stuff you mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Where do you work that co-workers are monitoring this? I mean you could think your appointment will be 30 minutes and do to backlogs it takes 2 hours. And I also wouldn't bounce this off of a co-worker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not call 2 hours a "short" appointment. Yes I would use PTO unless I could just make up the time.

Any doctor's appointment is two hours between logging out, getting to the car, driving across town, signing in, etc.

She said the appt is 2 hrs. It would be 3, almost a half day, by the time she does all the stuff you mentioned.

Botox is not two hours.