part of me is crying with jealousy at the idea of having four weeks off (i get two) but the rest of me is like "those amazon jobs really put people through the wringer tho...)
theoretically i think it's possible to reach a point where you get 4 weeks' vacation at my job but...you have to stick with the company for 20 years to get there
TERRA'S COMPANY HAS UNLIMITED PTO. and it legit feels so revolutionary and outlandish that I'm like /whispers should I even say that here. will the Capitalism Police come for them,
that article also points out that with an unlimited PTO policy you don't have to pay out unused vacation when people quit so it saves the company money
this makes sense, it's like, since I'm not at all this kind of employee it's hard for me to understand but I know so many people who are lol (including people at my workplace where we ended up having to make a new rule specifically because people kept accruing over 200 hours of PTO)
for me, a person who uses all of my PTO very quickly and usually in the format of taking a day off every 2-3 weeks or so for health reasons which means I never accrue enough to actually get A Vacation, the idea of unlimited PTO sounds like exactly what would benefit me specifically
but I recognize that a lot of people are nothing like me and end up with hundreds of hours they can't actually use, and getting that paid out someday is the flipside of that,
Yeah I guess for me it's definitely not "I feel guilty taking vacation", more "if I take time off things are just more of a disaster to deal with when I come back so I only do it if I have something in particular planned and also I'm bad at planning things"
yeah and it's like . . . what kills me about it, SORRY FOR RAMBLING IN SOMEONE ELSE'S PLURK, BUT, what kills me about it is that really me taking one day every 2-3 weeks really does not negatively impact the company or my role at all, I am good enough at my job that working 14 days of every 15 is completely fine, AND
I would be fine taking it unpaid even because being paid for 14 days out of every 15 also does not negatively affect my quality of life. but . . . we're not allowed to do that, and afaik that's standard in most companies, Lowe's was the same way
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