How much time off do you get for your job? UPDATED

[Luv Bunnies]

Wow! Two days between now and September is not only stingy, it just doesn't seem realistic! I think your company should work with you on the days you need to take off. I don't see how they would find another person who could live with just 2 days off either.

I'm fortunate to work for a school district. Besides summers and holiday breaks, we get 10 personal days per year. I think that's generous considering our work year is 180 days. If we don't use them all in a single school year, we can carry them over to the next year. I think I started this year with 14 and I've used 3 so far.

 

[pixiewings71]

That sucks, I have to go over my time off every year because HR messed up on my vacation pay 3 years ago!! Currently I get 2 weeks vacation, 6 sick days and 8 holidays (including the day after Thanksgiving) and I also get 3 half days, Christmas Eve, New Years Eve and our holiday party day, which varies. After I've been with the company for 10 years (2.5 yrs away) I will get 3 weeks of vacation. We are allowed to roll vacation days over but not sick time.

 

[jobhunter]

Wow, that is a stingy policy. I am really hoping that you will get the teaching job you've wanted for so long when the new school year starts.

 

[maslex]

I work as a school bus driver. If you are a substitute you get no "paid" days off. You can call in sick, take a leave, be a vacation, etc without any flack.

If you are a full time driver you get x-amount of vacation days (I think it depends how long you're there), 10-sick days, 5-personal days, insurance, etc.

If you are a part time driver with an assigned bus run, (this is my category) you get 5 sick days (which you're only supposed to use for yourself, NOT if you're children are sick) and you get 2 personal days (which you have to have approved before you can use them) We part time workers get no vacation time, no insurance, nothing compared to the full timers.

Our calendar year goes from August-June. If we use up more than our allotted 5-sick days, we get a verbal warning for the first one used after our 5th, a written warning after the second one, a one-day suspension after the 3rd, three-day suspension after the 4th, five day suspension after the 5th, ten day suspension after the 6th, and then it's a termination. I think it's a bunch of bull if you ask me. I mean, what's going to happen when someone gets REALLY sick? You get fired? I mean, come on.

So I guess it really depends on where you work. Every place seems to be different.

 

[disneymarie]

I already know I have to take 3 days off in the next two months for doctors visits and the thing is, they won't let me take those days without pay. So I'm looking at the rest of this year into September without being able to take days off for illness, personal or vacation. I still don't know what the consequences will be if I do go over -- will they fire me? Reprimand me? Nobody will tell me. Or nobody knows.

Are any of you in a situation like that? Or is your company pretty good about paid time off?

You should be covered under family medical leave act if you have a health issue that needs to be addressed. Under that you can take the days off, w/o pay if you do not have disabilty or time paid to cover w/o fear of losing your job.

I also worked for a nonprofit. when HR discovered I was on soc sec dis, she made my life miserable, my hours were cut (pt) and then finally no schedule. So I no longer have a job......
I had unique training and experiance for the position. Valuable long term employee. Never thought I could lose the job. By the time they got done the mental games I wreck but could not quit.

 

[barkley]

You should be covered under family medical leave act if you have a health issue that needs to be addressed. Under that you can take the days off, w/o pay if you do not have disabilty or time paid to cover w/o fear of losing your job.

I also worked for a nonprofit. when HR discovered I was on soc sec dis, she made my life miserable, my hours were cut (pt) and then finally no schedule. So I no longer have a job......
I had unique training and experiance for the position. Valuable long term employee. Never thought I could lose the job. By the time they got done the mental games I wreck but could not quit.

i don't believe she would qualify-a person has to have worked for an employer for 12 months to be eligible.

 

[MushyMushy]

You should be covered under family medical leave act if you have a health issue that needs to be addressed. Under that you can take the days off, w/o pay if you do not have disabilty or time paid to cover w/o fear of losing your job.

I also worked for a nonprofit. when HR discovered I was on soc sec dis, she made my life miserable, my hours were cut (pt) and then finally no schedule. So I no longer have a job......
I had unique training and experiance for the position. Valuable long term employee. Never thought I could lose the job. By the time they got done the mental games I wreck but could not quit.

Why would it matter to HR if you were on disability or not?

But like barkley said, I haven't put in enough time for FMLA to kick in.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this in another post, but I'm not completely screwed in all this, personally. I have another job right now that I can take as few or as many hours as I want. I got hired at both jobs the same week (odd because there are NO jobs around here) and had to choose which one to take full time. I just spoke with my supervisor at the other job and she said I could still get as many hours as I want whenever I want.

There are no paid days off there at all, but the job is such that you work around appointments with patients, so if I need a day off I just reschedule! This job isn't as stable as the one I'm doing now -- I mean, I don't have 9-5 steady hours and an office. If clients cancel on me again and again, I just don't get paid.

 

[disneymarie]

Why would it matter to HR if you were on disability or not?

But like barkley said, I haven't put in enough time for FMLA to kick in.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this in another post, but I'm not completely screwed in all this, personally. I have another job right now that I can take as few or as many hours as I want. I got hired at both jobs the same week (odd because there are NO jobs around here) and had to choose which one to take full time. I just spoke with my supervisor at the other job and she said I could still get as many hours as I want whenever I want.

There are no paid days off there at all, but the job is such that you work around appointments with patients, so if I need a day off I just reschedule! This job isn't as stable as the one I'm doing now -- I mean, I don't have 9-5 steady hours and an office. If clients cancel on me again and again, I just don't get paid.

For the same reason she road and demeaned the co-worker that was nursing and needed a 15 minute one time a night to pump. The next thing she did was undermind and cold shoulder, snipping comments until the firl left. This was her second job and she did not need the stree. OR the co=worker she hired unqulified, but one trip to NYC made HR's day a nightmare. When the gal, whose hrs I was covering came back from Internship abroad, HR , her ex friend told her she did not have a job help open that long.

The day she say me counting monthkly hrs and confronted me about being on disability not police retirement, I was doomed and it was a nightmare working there as long as I could. I had to have the pay. Then when I would not quit from the misery, I was just removed from the schedule.

HR has real personality issues.....Flawed decision making upstairs.
I was a W/C threat to her to be reinjured she felt. There are evil untrusting people in the work place. Oh, did I say my hrs were being reduced and given to a co-workers dd that was first year English major. Not even the minimum standards of BA in related field if law enforcement, sociology, psych, or related experiance of 2 years,

 

[Cindy B]

mushy is there anything you can do about making appointments for after work? I'd hate for you to lose your job.

 

[aprilgail2]

I get:

5 weeks vacation
12 sick days
7 personal days
13 paid holidays (we can take off with a straight days pay or work them for double time and a half)

 

[aprilgail2]

Well, I spoke with my supervisor today and she did tell me that I could be fired for going over my 2 paid days between now and September. When I explained to her about a recent health issue and the fact that I knew I'd have to go over my 2 remaining days, she let me know this. Later she went to talk to her supervisor to confirm it, but they are looking into ways to "work with me" on it.

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Wow that stinks! 2 days off in nine months--and since you have those spoken for already if you actually get sick you are out of luck!! Doesn't seem very reasonable to me.

 

[MushyMushy]

mushy is there anything you can do about making appointments for after work? I'd hate for you to lose your job.

Not a lot of places around here have evening hours. My doc has 1 day a week set aside for evening hours, but I have to go to our local hospital to get testing done, and the hours for those departments are usually really bad like 8-4 or something like that. Saturdays are out of the question. As far as seeing a specialist, from what I've heard I need to take whatever appointment they'll give me or I'll be waiting months.

Let's face it, there's no flexibility here at all. It's one thing if my car breaks down and I'm late for a half hour -- my boss will let me make that up. But to miss an hour or two in the middle of the day will eat right into my remaining 2 PTO days. I'm just going to hang on as long as I can to this job and build up good will so that I'll have a foot back in the door.

 

[Kath2003]

Not a lot of places around here have evening hours. My doc has 1 day a week set aside for evening hours, but I have to go to our local hospital to get testing done, and the hours for those departments are usually really bad like 8-4 or something like that. Saturdays are out of the question. As far as seeing a specialist, from what I've heard I need to take whatever appointment they'll give me or I'll be waiting months.

Let's face it, there's no flexibility here at all. It's one thing if my car breaks down and I'm late for a half hour -- my boss will let me make that up. But to miss an hour or two in the middle of the day will eat right into my remaining 2 PTO days. I'm just going to hang on as long as I can to this job and build up good will so that I'll have a foot back in the door.

I cannot believe that a good employee can be FIRED for being unwell - for taking FIVE days off in OVER 9 months! If you worked somewhere here for 9 months full time, you'd be entitled to FIFTEEN paid days off at the bare minimum - and if you were sick, you wouldn't have to use PTO days!

It's really, really sad that people are worth so little to these businesses. Imagine how much it would cost them to advertise for, interview and train a new employee? I bet good money it costs more than a couple of days of PTO.

Sorry Mushy. This has made me really cross so I'm not going to say any more other than that this utterly sucks for you.

 

[Darcy03231]

I get 4 weeks paid vacation and 13 paid holidays. We're a small office and don't have "sick days" per se. If we're sick we're paid for it. No one takes advantage of it and people are rarely out. I was hospitalized for an illness and was paid the entire time I was out, no questions asked.

 

[tiggspring]

My last week of work, before my Dr put me out on disability, I needed to go to the ER. My supervisior sent me a note informing me I needed to plan for my time out of work better or I was looking at being written up at my mental health job. Tell me how do you plan for and ER visit? Gee I really would like to have a potentially life threatning situation next tue at 3 am!!!

When I worked for AT&T you had good benifits but if you used them you risked losing your job and that was 20 yrs ago. people in middle management or below generally have zero support even if they "have benifits". Then the companies wonder why employees steal or leave without notice. It is much worse on the east coast ie RI/ct/ma & NYC than it is here is Pittsbugh. People tend to be much kinder here. Sad for me to say because my family goes all the way back to the Mayflower

 

[princessbride6205]

I've been with my company for 6 years, and I get:
15 days vacation
12 days sick

But that's maxed out. No matter how many years I stay with the company, I cannot earn any more time off. Our company does not have a policy for salaried employees taking time off unpaid.

Sorry to hear of your limited time off policy, Mushy! I'm glad you have something to fall back on, though.

 

[darlak]

I've been a county employee for 11 years, but the program I work with just became a non-profit. Our board has been pretty good about making our benefits much the same as they were with the county though.

I get 13 days vacation and 13 days sick leave. Sick leave can be used for myself or if any member of my immediate family is ill.