Do they have this policy at your workplace?

Peeker said:
we get drunk at work...
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We have an official BAR where I work. No shit. Free beer, wine and booze for faculty and administrators at the level of senior director and up. This might be our only real job perk.
 
I get holidays when I'm told to take them and that's that.

Of course being a teacher this amounts to around 12 weeks a year off so I shant complain too much :embarrassed:
 
I have like...90 vacation hours and 100+ sick hours. I can't use any of them because I don't have anyone to cover me if I want a vacation or if I get sick. So....no.
 
I can keep an unlimited amount of hours. For example, I had something like 2+ months of vacation + sick saved up earlier this year.
 
As a serious answer, I can accrue up to 80 hours currently. Once I have accrued 80 hours I stop accruing until I use some up.
 
Vacation is determined by how many years you've been with the company. Being new, I got 2 weeks this year. They're upping the level for new employees to 3 weeks in 2014. We used to be able to carry over 80 hours, but the new policy this coming year only allows us to carry over 40. Any vacation left over 40 is lost, unless you get special permission due to special circumstances.

Another odd thing they're doing this coming year is that you don't get your whole vacation allotment on Jan. 1st. You get 1/4 of it in the 1st quarter, and so on. So I guess they're trying to get people to spread out their vacation rather than taking it in large chunks? I don't know. Most people who take large chunks do it at the end of the year for hunting season/Thanksgiving/Christmas. So I'm not sure what the whole reasoning behind this new policy is.
 
And DMN, my attitude is to not stress about it. If they make you take the vacation by not letting you roll it over, but taking it causes you to get behind in your work, then they're over working you. Not your fault. Get behind and when they say something bring up how the current policy is detrimental to your work, but your hands are tied. Of course, don't risk your job over this, but if everybody just keeps getting the work done and giving up their vacation, the bean counters up the chain are going to keep taking advantage of people like you. If problems never arise, solutions are never sought. A fellow employee has a favorite saying for situations like this: "The best way to change a dumb rule is to follow it to the T" Cause a little friction.
 
My old company, who I was with for 12 years, allowed me to max out at 30 days. I couldn't accrue any more than that. I was always too busy to take off. In fact, I had 2 weeks scheduled during Christmas last year and had to cancel. The following January, I got laid off and the company never paid me that 30 days vacay. If I ever get employed again, I will never let that happen again.
 
Also, DMN, could you take a "vacation" day, and just work from home instead of driving in to the office? A bit of a compromise and a win/win. You don't completely lose your vacation day because you get the benefit of sleeping in a bit and working in your PJs, playing some music at higher-than-office-levels while working, taking a 2 hour lunch/TV break, etc. But you don't fall so far behind in your work as if you took the whole day to go skiing or to the beach or something. There's a guy in my group who has done this before.
 
tgk03 said:
My old company, who I was with for 12 years, allowed me to max out at 30 days. I couldn't accrue any more than that. I was always too busy to take off. In fact, I had 2 weeks scheduled during Christmas last year and had to cancel. The following January, I got laid off and the company never paid me that 30 days vacay. If I ever get employed again, I will never let that happen again.
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Exactly, the bean counters and directors know what they're doing. They're playing the game and coming out ahead. They "give" you the vacation but make sure you can't use it. I refuse to play the game. Work be damned if I fall behind a bit, but I'm not losing any vacation they give me. That might cause me some trouble down the road, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
 
Peeker said:
we get drunk at work...
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Used to have a job like that, we worked hard but back at the office the fridge was always full of beer.....always. And only lived 5 mins walk from the office..happy days.

Surprising the difference in conditions in the US though. 4 weeks holiday is mandatory in Aus, they accumulate but companies don't like them to (but the workload doesn't lighten). sick leave is way down on you guys though, they accumulate but only if you stay with the same company....and the job I'm in at present will pay 2 sick days without a doctors certificate per year...thats rolling.

Written in red Arail...I fucking hate times new roman.
 
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