Those of you who get a ton of leave--how?

[Anonymous]

Why would a company cover snow days for parents that have to stay home with a kid? The parents have the option of using backup daycare if they want. I chose to not telework on one now day to spend the time with my child since I thought it would be nice for both of us

I didn't get that OP meant that the child's snowdays were the issue (maybe they were) but there were plenty of unscheduled leave/telework days this year as dictated by OPM. There are days when one cannot get to the office regardless of their childcare situation.

[Anonymous]

My company has unlimited PTO so I don't have to worry about whether I have enough time accrued for any leave I need or any to take.

[Anonymous]

I get 4 weeks vacation plus a decent number of sick days (more than I need so I'm not sure how much). I think once I make it to 10 years I get 5 weeks. The trade off is I get paid next to nothing.

[Anonymous]

I get 5 weeks' vacation, as do all 10-year employees. It is probably the most important benefit I have after the level of my salary.

I'm getting to the point where I don't really feel like working full time anymore, but I wonder if really it's more about wanting some extra weeks off for vacations, to where going the LWOP route would be better than cutting back to part-time work.

[Anonymous]

I get 6.5 weeks of paid leave and unlimited sick leave with a doctor's note (plus all federal holidays and snow days). IFI in DC.

[Anonymous]

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My company has unlimited PTO so I don't have to worry about whether I have enough time accrued for any leave I need or any to take.

This is awesome! Where do you work?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work for the govt, so it's pretty easy to accumulate leave once you've been there a while (plus you get all the federal holidays).

When DH was switching jobs, he was able to negotiate a higher leave rate accrual as part of his package. I think this is pretty common.

I have tried negotiating more in the past and have always been turned down. How common is it actually?

I've negotiated a higher level in several jobs. It's a total dealbreaker for me.

[Anonymous]

Just left a company after 7 years and I got 5 weeks PTO a year at that level. All federal holidays and if client allowed it, telework when necessary. Very important on days government was closed for weather.

Started a new job this week and wasn't about to start back at the beginning of only getting 3 weeks a year. I negotiated to get 4. Would have loved to start at 5 weeks right away, but they weren't big fans of that. Final salary offer was a few thousand higher than we'd verbally agreed to prior to the PTO discussion, so I'm good with the 4 weeks. Still get all federal holidays plus 1 floating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My company has unlimited PTO so I don't have to worry about whether I have enough time accrued for any leave I need or any to take.

Same here. Lawfirm. For attys only. Except of course it's a trick since you still need to hit your hours...

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My company has unlimited PTO so I don't have to worry about whether I have enough time accrued for any leave I need or any to take.

This is awesome! Where do you work?

At a tech start-up. It really is awesome because I've never had to worry whether I have enough time accrued so I can take my kids to the doctor when they're sick or work from home when it snows. And I don't have to worry that I'm eating up vacation time by doing either of those. So long as I get my work done I'm all good for any time off I need. Between company holidays and PTO I probably take off at least 6 weeks a year altogether. Maybe more - I don't know bc I don't track it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous



My company has unlimited PTO so I don't have to worry about whether I have enough time accrued for any leave I need or any to take.

This is awesome! Where do you work?

At a tech start-up. It really is awesome because I've never had to worry whether I have enough time accrued so I can take my kids to the doctor when they're sick or work from home when it snows. And I don't have to worry that I'm eating up vacation time by doing either of those. So long as I get my work done I'm all good for any time off I need. Between company holidays and PTO I probably take off at least 6 weeks a year altogether. Maybe more - I don't know bc I don't track it.

I have heard the real motivation is the accounting trick of not having to carry vacation days on the books or pay out when you leave. Six weeks including holidays seems about average; I doubt you could Succeed at job if you really took 4 months of or something. But u can't build the vacation day bank for exit payday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous



My company has unlimited PTO so I don't have to worry about whether I have enough time accrued for any leave I need or any to take.

This is awesome! Where do you work?

At a tech start-up. It really is awesome because I've never had to worry whether I have enough time accrued so I can take my kids to the doctor when they're sick or work from home when it snows. And I don't have to worry that I'm eating up vacation time by doing either of those. So long as I get my work done I'm all good for any time off I need. Between company holidays and PTO I probably take off at least 6 weeks a year altogether. Maybe more - I don't know bc I don't track it.

I have heard the real motivation is the accounting trick of not having to carry vacation days on the books or pay out when you leave. Six weeks including holidays seems about average; I doubt you could Succeed at job if you really took 4 months of or something. But u can't build the vacation day bank for exit payday.

I went back and checked and it looks like with all the half days I had to take here and there to deal w my kids plus vacations plus company holidays I was well into 8+ weeks of time off. I'm totally ok with not getting paid out time accrued so that I never have to worry about where my PTO balance stands. And no ones taking 4 months off (2 weeks seems to be the norm w a couple 3 weekers) but does any company offer that?

[Anonymous]

I didn't get that OP meant that the child's snowdays were the issue (maybe they were) but there were plenty of unscheduled leave/telework days this year as dictated by OPM. There are days when one cannot get to the office regardless of their childcare situation.

The OPM was technically only closed two days. I am not able to telework and a contractor so I was forces to take those two days off. I managed to make it in on all other days since I didn't want to burn through leave. I am luckly that I live on mostly main roads and have a good HOA that has the development cleaned up very early so getting to work was no issue on the snow days.

[Anonymous]

I work at a nonprofit and we get six weeks of PTO, plus eleven federal holidays. Plus as long as you get work done they are flexible about other hours (doctors appointments, etc). And when OPM is closed, we are closed. It's great for me. The salary is lower than in the private sector or government, but I don't mind- it's still a living wage.

[Anonymous]

You should have set up back up care for snow days. You wasted your PTO on unnecessary snow days.

My child attends Fairfax County schools. We have back up care at a church preschool that follows the government. They were closed only 2 days while FFX closed 10 days and had several delays. The 2 days that the government was closed, DH and I also stayed home. These were the bad snow days and we did not have to take PTO because no one else went to the office either whether they had kids or not.

I get really annoyed when people call in sick when they aren't sick. It sounds like your supervisor is the same. She doesn't want you to call out sick just to use the time off.