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Nearly 50% of workers didn't
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Posted By: Ribicon, 12/24/2020 10:49:27 AM

New York—Did you take all of your paid time off this year? A new report from Monster found about 46% of people did not take their full paid time off. Many said they didn’t take their time off because they had nowhere to go or had concerns about their jobs. Only about 18% of people said they are able to roll over their time off. Taking time off, especially this year, was critical. If you don’t use it up, you’re likely leaving a bunch of money on the table. If you didn’t get in all that paid time off this year,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: chance_232 12/24/2020 11:01:03 AM (No. 640537)
This is the first year that I've ever taken all of my PTO. I used it all in one shot to drive cross country, pack up my mother and move her down the street from me. I've been sweating it ever since. We don't get sick time, just PTO. If I come down with covid, I'm screwed. Two years in a row I came down with H1N1 and a different flu the following year. Both of which knocked me out for a week. I have ever since been afraid to use all my PTO time before the end of the year. Of course we have a use it or lose it policy and I've given up anywhere from 3-5 days every year.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 12/24/2020 11:08:01 AM (No. 640551)
Where I used to work, overtime would be used to offset any time off. Always had more overtime than time off. Always. Of course there was always the option of working while on vacation. Lots of people did that. I still remember the coworker that commented he worked only half days. He was referring to 12 hour days however. The work would always pile up when taking time off, and if there were deadlines. If you took time off, you would pay for it when you returned. Lots of burnout, including people who continued to work while burned out.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: janjan 12/24/2020 11:14:17 AM (No. 640556)
Businesses have to accrue unused vacation time on their books. My company (a major corporation I won’t name) has a clever way to solve it. They force you to take all of your PTO so they can remove the accrual and then expect you to work anyway.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: anniebc 12/24/2020 11:14:25 AM (No. 640557)
I took most of my PTO taking care of my mom before she passed earlier this year. Our employer urged us to take PTO when money was slow coming in, and it was good advice. We've worked remotely since 2008, so we had minimal adjustments to Covid--those of us who weren't furloughed or fired. We were also blessed to carry over 80 hours rather than the 40 we can normally carry over. While raises and promotions were delayed until January, we received double our normal Christmas bonus. Who gets that anymore? I feel very blessed, and I hate that so many are suffering needlessly for a leftist agenda that mostly means harm to those pretends to be for their good.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Rumblehog 12/24/2020 11:30:07 AM (No. 640568)
This is what happens when companies at the urging of their evil HR VP decide to cancel the "defined benefit" of vacation and replace it with "unlimited vacation" for the salaried employees. The proviso is that one's manager must approve vacation and only if you're "all caught up." Therein lies the rub, you're NEVER caught up and managers always feel more secure with their blame magnets hanging around, so,,, "Denied!" is the usual response. I know because this happened to me. Working from home also causes people to feel obliged to answer the phone, login to help someone, etc. and that time is never compensated by the company.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: dirtyjersey 12/24/2020 12:29:27 PM (No. 640618)
All of the problems are there when I return, plus the news ones that pop up. Miserable year, won’t miss it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 12/24/2020 1:27:31 PM (No. 640655)
You can tell we are living in a communist state when other people are concerned that you didn't use all your paid time off. No one has any personal business anymore. Everything is to be decided by the state and the hate filled media.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Rather Read 12/24/2020 2:39:53 PM (No. 640717)
I didn't. I've got a TON of sick days saved up since I never get sick, but vacation days? Everywhere I wanted to go was closed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 12/24/2020 2:40:14 PM (No. 640719)
Where I came from, PTO was an acronym for power take off...a connection between an engine and a machine like a generator or a hay baler. I never had paid time off. You don't work, you don't get paid.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: RuckusTom 12/24/2020 4:25:20 PM (No. 640807)
The underlying goal of this is - get paid by the hour (fine by me) and do away with the administrative costs for 401ks, healthcare and pensions (if they still exist). Let the employees deal with their own retirement and their own healthcare. I've worked as a temp or a consultant before and quite frankly, I liked it. Of course the offsetting pay needs to cover retirement and healthcare. Heck, pay me in cash without reporting my income to the feds like illegal aliens and I'd be happy. Might even be able to get a little welfare when I report $0 income on my federal income taxes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: joew9 12/24/2020 6:34:56 PM (No. 640875)
When working for a big defense contractor one year I took all my PTO by the end of the year. In January I got a talking-to by my boss who had been savaged by higher ups for what I had done. Same big defense contractor announced a guaranteed anonymous hot line to report if we had some software on our machines that had not been properly paid for. A fellow employee called the hot line. An hour later his boss was at his desk chewing him out. The fact was we had bogus copies of everything from DOS 4.0 OS to Word Perfect. We fixed it within a year but all our government contract sponsors were loaded up with the illegal software and making no attempt to fix the situation at all. But they were government so they didn't have to follow the rules.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: red1066 12/24/2020 7:54:25 PM (No. 640918)
I'm ending the year with two weeks worth of PTO not used. My coworker has close to three weeks of unused PTO. The reason? There was no place to go to get away from this covid crap. Outside of camping in the woods which my wife has absolutely no interest in doing, there was no place I was willing to pay a lot of money to get to, and stay there that was worth the time and money.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: lakerman1 12/24/2020 8:51:11 PM (No. 640959)
Ted Baxter, Mary Tyler Moore show, refused to take a vacation because he feared that he would be replaced as news anchor. I once worked for a man who, I discovered after I began the job, suffered from severe depression. His psychiatrist told him he needed a hobby, so he took up golf. And he went to Jekyll Island, Georgia for the month of March. And while he was gone, we did his work for him, so that he would come back to a clean desk. When he came back, he became more depressed and weepy, saying he wasn't needed. The following March, he went on his vacation, and we decided to let his work pile up, so that he would feel needed. And when he came back, he became more depressed and weepy, because we hated him, because we didn't do his work while he was on vacation. Not long afterward, I resigned. It was a good decision.
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