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Is 40 hours the entire entitlement for the year? I've heard that USians don't get much leave, but just a week seems ridiculous. Or is that what they're booking this time, that seems more reasonable. Still shouldn't be an issue just to book a week off. I'd get it if they were trying to do a three week block or something.
Some jobs have zero pto! Its not required federally, and most states dont have regulations about it afaik.
How does that work? Do you just have to throw a sicky and use your sick pay if you want to go on holiday?
Assuming you get any or have any left, yeah. That or you can take unpaid time off. Though some places frown on that as well.
Yes 40 for the year, and 40 isn't even guaranteed. It is typically what you could earn over an entire year of full time work. A lot of jobs don't even give you the hours up front, you earn it as you work.
Some don't get any PTO. Zero.
It depends on a lot of factors. For software development I've had anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks per year. One job was 4 weeks of PTO (includes sick time) and they only had 6 holiday days per year. That job sucked.
Several of the software jobs I had offered "unlimited" PTO, where as long as your shit was done, you could take off as much as you liked. Of course, that meant that they didn't have to pay out your remaining days when you left, but it was a good reason to stay.
So PTO is combined sick pay and holiday? You don't separate it?
So my holiday entitlement is 35 days, and my sick pay is 10 days so my equivalent PTO would be 9 weeks or 360 hours.
By holiday do you mean strictly vacation or does that include holiday days like Christmas and new years?
It includes public holiday days yeah. It's about 6 weeks that I can take anytime.
Some employers do PTO others do separate vacation and sick. Generally I just count the combined days off -- vacation, sick, and holidays when making a decision on an offer.
If you have a shitty employer. 3-4 weeks is more common for an office job
I've got 168 hrs of PTO and another 40 hrs sick leave.
A lot of that is from seniority (I've been at the company 10 years and was hired as a 5 year due to prior experience). But 40 hrs is on the low end of what you should expect, overall. Unless you're an entry level hire, you should expect more.
I used to love when my boss would deny PTO. I told him straight up after a while that my PTO request was a polite notification that I will not be there during that time, and whether he solved that problem now or when it rolled around was up to him.
Once you learn that the United States is one massive scam, all of the pieces fit into place.
My god damn team has a giant spreadsheet where all planned absences are logged, and shows how many people can still be out per week.
It's awful and I hate it and literally 2/3rds of the teams have no real reason to not have overlapping holidays.
Unrelated, but I'm going be sick those days. Strange coincidence.
There are a lot of things wrong with my company, but we do have unlimited PTO. I’m in a place where I can just tell them I won’t be here, and it’s up to them to figure it out.
I’m about to start a job with unlimited PTO and I’m honestly unsure. I had 3 weeks at my last place. I’d like more, but at least I never felt judged using what I was allotted. They also never denied a request.
“Unlimited” feels like a trap. But I guess I’m doing that to myself? Idk, I’m probably gonna aim for 3ish weeks for my first year and see how it feels.