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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Yeah this is about the time of year my hayfever tends to ramp up really bad. I think the only reason it hasn't yet is because (for Dallas) it's been unseasonably cold.

    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    I did that personality test.
    Openness to experience:
    60 out of 100

    Gapingness for exploits:
    75 out of 100

    Speculumity for speculation:
    80 out of 100

    Extraversion:
    2 out of 100

  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    Annoyed at my job.

    First last year I was told I was going to be trained for a promotion, but then stuff happened which necessitated that spot being filled up faster than expected and they gave it to another co worker. When I talked to my supervisor about it, it was because I didn't take enough initiative..even though I wasn't told that was the plan.

    Now I been training new 3 new people off and on, while doing my daily duties even though there's two other team members who could be assisting. It's generally cause I know the systems best and have an okay handle on my work stuff.

    Finally, and shittiest, is that we transitioned to unlimited time off, as long as it was approved by management, and now they're saying that it's capped at 120 hours, aka 15 days.

    3 weeks for sick and vacation time isn't the worst, but fuck that. We can't accrue extra time, I won't be able to cash it out if I leave the company, etc.

    I have a big vacation in March, but afterwards I think I'm going to start job searching.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Annoyed at my job.

    First last year I was told I was going to be trained for a promotion, but then stuff happened which necessitated that spot being filled up faster than expected and they gave it to another co worker. When I talked to my supervisor about it, it was because I didn't take enough initiative..even though I wasn't told that was the plan.

    Now I been training new 3 new people off and on, while doing my daily duties even though there's two other team members who could be assisting. It's generally cause I know the systems best and have an okay handle on my work stuff.

    Finally, and shittiest, is that we transitioned to unlimited time off, as long as it was approved by management, and now they're saying that it's capped at 120 hours, aka 15 days.

    3 weeks for sick and vacation time isn't the worst, but fuck that. We can't accrue extra time, I won't be able to cash it out if I leave the company, etc.

    I have a big vacation in March, but afterwards I think I'm going to start job searching.

    Yea it's not really unlimited if it's limited. It's just a shitty way to get around paying out PTO if your state or country forces the issue.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    Yea, my first thought it CA based? I know you have to pay out PTO there when somebody leaves....unless they have unlimited PTO.

    Seems like an overly complicated method of wage theft really.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    The 538 is really scant on questions

    I answered ‘somewhat agree’ to having negative/depressive thoughts and it gave me 95% on anxiety and depression which is hmm and not really accurate at all.

    Oh, and guess what? I have STILL NOT HEARD BACK FROM OUR PAYROLL COMPANY! What the actual fuck.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Is the unlimited PTO and "Cap" noted in the employee handbook? This kind of shit has to be well documented to be able to stand up in court.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Fucking lol at the person who thinks that 15 days is the same as unlimited time off

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Not only is that not unlimited, it's not even generous.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Only fifteen? That’s not unlimited.

    24 is unlimited. Can’t go any higher than 24.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Not only is that not unlimited, it's not even generous.

    all the american's now go "bwuh?!"

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    On the handbook it's listed as "DTO" for Determined Timed Off, meaning anytime it has to be approved by mgnt.

    And yeah, 100% of it is just so they don't have to pay any time off when anyone leaves/gets laid off.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Unlimited time off should come with minimum vacation stipulations that the employee must take, and a minimum vacation allowance that must be paid out at the end of the year or the end of employment.

  • RadiationRadiation Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Unlimited time off should come with minimum vacation stipulations that the employee must take, and a minimum vacation allowance that must be paid out at the end of the year or the end of employment.

    Whoa, slow down there socialist Steve.
    Look at this guy, interested in the well being of the laborers.

    PSN: jfrofl
  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    I'm beginning to feel the onset of a cold because people, coworkers and customers alike, are completely incapable of properly covering their mouths when they cough, or, better yet, they cough directly into their hands and go around touching shit

    Like, for fucks sake

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    I knew a guy that worked for a company that had unlimited vacation time, and after 4 years you had a required 6 week sabbatical.

    I don't know how the unlimited vacation time worked in practice, but 6 weeks off paid sounds pretty nice.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I posted a picture of a potato festival to our lab group chat and one of my colleagues replied "Dammit, [tynic], now I have to go home and jerk off"
    ... i think he's forgotten our head of department is on that chat.

    Other work shenanigans: we have added to the Wall of Heads

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    They recently made our call-in policy more lax, so I've been determined to make use of it (I was definitely one of those people who would come into work sick, out of fear of being perceived as 'lazy' or 'abusing the system' by my peers.)

    It's hard to unlearn those attitudes though. I'll call in, then feel terrible for the entire day because I probably could have gone to work.

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Your colleague was being very inappropriate, Tynic.

    Nobody needs to go home and jerk off when there's a perfectly good pod available.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    mcp wrote: »
    I knew a guy that worked for a company that had unlimited vacation time, and after 4 years you had a required 6 week sabbatical.

    I don't know how the unlimited vacation time worked in practice, but 6 weeks off paid sounds pretty nice.

    In the UK financial industry (maybe it's everywhere, I don't know) you have to take a certain amount of holiday each year and something like two weeks of it has to be consecutive. The reason for this is that two weeks is long enough for any of your fucking schemes to unravel if you're not there to tend to them, so it discourages malfeasance.

  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    mcp wrote: »
    I knew a guy that worked for a company that had unlimited vacation time, and after 4 years you had a required 6 week sabbatical.

    I don't know how the unlimited vacation time worked in practice, but 6 weeks off paid sounds pretty nice.

    In the UK financial industry (maybe it's everywhere, I don't know) you have to take a certain amount of holiday each year and something like two weeks of it has to be consecutive. The reason for this is that two weeks is long enough for any of your fucking schemes to unravel if you're not there to tend to them, so it discourages malfeasance.
    Man, I never thought of that.

    Yeah, this place is a big investment research / management company.

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Yeah that is a ridiculously inappropriate thing to write in your work chat.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Yeah the proper business nomenclature is "I've gotta go collate some documents."

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    They almost never check it, so he's probably safe.
    ... I guess the kind thing to do would be to remind him so he can delete it before they see it.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    One time at a company I worked at (not this one) an employee posted an AIDs joke in main chat, and I posted a grimace smiley in response. When they got their HR write-up, it included the sentence "Another employee (Patrick) responded by posting a grimace smiley, a reaction that scales roughly to a regular employee throwing their desk out of a window".

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    For a split second I thought you meant the purple McDonalds character.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Two weeks gone really is a good number, at any job. after a week someone usually has to pick up the absent workers slack and if there is any bullshit it becomes readily apparent.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    At the beginning of the year my boss flat out told me that I should take a week in February because things were going to get crazy and he couldn't be sure if/when time would be approved further down the line. Was kind of nice to get the heads up, so I'm off the rest of this week and Monday - Mexican wine country bound am I.

    I should look into the PTO cap laws etc as a person living in CA but whose work is in AZ.

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    We get 29 a year (USA) here and we burn almost that much just on daycare off weeks

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Goose! wrote: »
    For a split second I thought you meant the purple McDonalds character.

    That’s when you know shit is REALLY bad

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    "Nothing can kill the Grimace."

  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    We get 29 a year (USA) here and we burn almost that much just on daycare off weeks

    We would be royally fucked without grandparents around

  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    I've gotten ~20 PTO days, or 10 PTO 10 sick everywhere I've worked....but also, everywhere I've worked has been rather lax on the "you can ONLY take this many days per year". In reality, they seem to treat it as unlimited PTO...which honestly always seems like the best option for everybody. "Are you a responsible adult? Do you get your work done? Cool. Take whatever time you need."

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    I'm taking a week off starting in precisely two weeks. I don't have any plans, but my AVL was about to cap at 240 hours accrual. This isn't as effective an assault on my vacation bank as it would be without my 16 hours of annual floating holiday, and it doesn't touch my 200+ hours of sick leave.

    I know these numbers seem really piddly to workers in civilized countries, but here in America it's worth doing a respectful Public Service Dance every morning of my upcoming week of sloth.

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    I could totally go for a week of sloth. I had a day of sloth today and it wasn't enough.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    My work only gives sick days because it's required by AZ law. And I think it's a whopping 24 hours a year.

  • Al_watAl_wat Registered User regular
    Today at work we had a "safety meeting" which consisted entirely of watching youtube videos of idiots driving high end sports cars and crashing.

    I am now able to operate a nuclear plant safely.

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    A curse on people who come into work sick

    Told a guy last week he needed to go home because he was coughing up a storm

    Who is coughing up a storm today? Its meee

    You should go home.

    $10 says patient 0 will be all like "heh, didn't see me going home sick like a bitch when I had the flu."

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  • Moridin889Moridin889 Registered User regular
    On the one hand, I accrue lots of PTO and have lots of PTO and my job does not pay it out

    On the other hand, I can't trust these folks to tend the shop without me having loads of catchup work that I don't want to do. And then I don't get free food.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    They cash out at the end of the fiscal year what PTO you have above 40 hours

    The week they did this the managers made fun of how they had to pay me over 280 hours for the time I did not take because I was being told we need you to cover for blank or some other person

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