I normally just try and avoid talking to people, but that's pretty much my daily routine regardless of being sick. :sneaky:
My last 2 jobs have not had sick time, nor did they give extra PTO to accommodate illness. I went out for 3 days in December of 2011 with pneumonia and was told that I have to make up those 3 days (and I'm salary). That didn't go over to well and I'm still somewhat pissed about it, especially considering the hundreds of hours of OT that I had worked without as much as a single penny of compensation for it (yes, I know it's part of the salary process but also salary is to be paid whether I work 5 hours, 40 hours or 80 hours).
If not, do you tend to come into work more often to avoid wasting vacation/PTO?
I don't get sick days, and I get an average number of days off (15 days or 3 business weeks). If I took off every time I was sick, I could probably easily blow through half of that in a year. Now, I rarely get sick, but when I do, I tend to get sick for a good week at a time. Albeit, most of that is just putting up with the annoying cold symptoms, but that's the stuff that usually infects others! So, it's very rare for me to take time off when I'm sick as I just simply can't go around wasting all of my vacation. The way I see it is that if my employer really wants me to look out for the well being of my fellow employees, then give me (and my fellow employees) sick time.
Silly boy...Just work extra hours (which turns into comp time). You then have the option to use these hours for whatever purpose you see fit. At the end of the year any remaining comp time gets paid out to you. Problem solved!
Why the H*LL can't you kiddies figure this out?!
It's called "PTO", Paid Time Off, it's for your use as a combination of Vacation AND Sick Days (or even Personal Days)!
Take your PTO if you're sick!!!!
you don't need a Drs. statement
And 3 weeks PTO is pretty good in this Day & Time, NO Employer is required (By law) to give you ANYTHING other than breaks, lunch time, & a paycheck.
PTO was intended to be a good thing whereas you can take Sick days, Vacation, even Personal days without losing pay. For Sick Days, you don't need a Drs. statement, and for Personal Days, you don't have to explain that your dog is sick.
Not really. PTO was designed to save the company money by giving less paid time off in total while still appearing to be generous. Typical move is from 8-10 sick days plus 2 weeks vacation to 3 weeks PTO. What it really does is encourage people to go in while sick and get other employees sick. Nobody wants to waste vacation time on being sick.
Not sure where you get your numbers, but 3 weeks PTO is the average for less than 1 year of service. Typical PTO for a 5 year associate it 4 weeks plus some; 10-year is 5 weeks; 15 year is around 6 weeks.
On average, PTO banks equal the previous combined Vac/Sic banks. Couple that with the fact that more PTO programs allow carryover than traditional separation.
PTO eases the administrative burden on a company and allows associates more control over how they utilize benefit time.
Every person I've known who had a company transition lost total time in the transition. Every company I've ever worked for has had higher totals than your PTO averages. I have no idea where you're getting your numbers either, but it reeks of 'massaged' statistics to get the result the HR department wants to show.