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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,  a friend just told me that one of the people in his company was fired for taking too many PTO days.  (The company offered unlimited PTO, assuming it would not be abused.)

There are limits.  I'd be more concerned about whether my child will be able to hold a job if she does not understand that sometimes we just have to tolerate a little boredom.

As a private counselor told the son of one of my friends: " Sometimes, you don't do the work because you need to, you do it to get the grade you want."
(My friend's son thought he understood the material and did not need to do the homework.)

Your DD may be accepted to the college she wants, but if she does not go to class, there may be trouble.[/quote]

I worked for a company that allowed unlimited PTO. Everyone was informed that they have a specified amount of contract hours that they have to meet in order to be considered full time. If you were taking so much PTO that you were coming under that number of hours, you were going to be in trouble. I managed people and would call them in to discuss how much they had taken and how much they effectively had left based on contract hours. The number of people we had to warn about their PTO use was higher then we would have liked, several people were told that if they took any more PTO before the end of the fiscal year they would be in part time hours status, which our contract didn't carry. We did track the days of PTO so no one should have been surprised. What the "unlimited PTO" did was removed pressure to take legitimate sick days and not worry about snow days since they would not eat into PTO. It allowed people to take their vacations and not worry that having to stay home with a sick kid or when they were sick was going to eat into that family vacation. But yes, people abused it and they were let go.

Your kid needs to be in class even if she doesn't think she needs to be in class. She is developing bad habits that will hurt her in college and the job market. [/quote]

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