gooddecisions
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Post by gooddecisions on Oct 30, 2014 9:55:42 GMT -5
We can buy up to 40 hours of vacation, but I never have. It's up to manager discretion to approve it. My company has always been "use it or lose it" by the end of the year when it comes to both vacation and sick time. No buy back, no pay out, no carry over. We get 10 sick days/year and I've only used 1 in 14 years. For many years, I poorly planned vacation and would leave a week on the table, which meant I worked for free. I don't do that anymore. Now, in January, I try to go ahead and add my vacation days to my personal and work calendars and plan accordingly. It's nice to have something to look forward to even if it's just a "staycation." I never understood the woman in the next office because she spend the last year going on and on about how she couldn't wait to retire and how much she was frustrated/annoyed by her job, and all the great things she'd do after retirement, etc. And yet that woman was forced to take the last 2 weeks of the year off *every year* because she always had so much accrued unused vacation time she'd lose it (and we allow a lot to be accrued). It seemed really ironic to me! Yeah, not smart. I'm glad I resolved it by the time I was 30. In my defense, I did not make a lot of money and was trying to climb the corporate ladder. There are always a few people who plan poorly and beg to carry it over- even when they already have 2 weeks at the end of the year. These people do make good money and are not young and stupid. The best I'll do is allow them to take it by the second week of January and then to coach them to plan better. I don't require people to send me their days at the beginning of the year, but I'm tempted. At least I never put my managers in the awkward position of how to handle my poor vacation planning.
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HoneyBBQ
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Oct 30, 2014 10:54:13 GMT -5
Essentially, yes. I negotiated for the right to take 1 week unpaid every year. Coming from academics, it's quite a shock to be cut back to 3 weeks per year.
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cronewitch
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Post by cronewitch on Oct 30, 2014 11:14:29 GMT -5
I had too many deadlines at work to take a full week off and didn't really have any reason to take days off. So I had 750 hours or so saved when I retired got me an extra 30K or so on my last check. We had one women who would ask to get a week of vacation pay instead of vacation because she ran out of money. The boss loved it so we didn't have to cover her work. I could have asked if I could but I didn't need the money and I thought it looked like really poor planning. They automatically bought back sick leave over 192 hours at the end of the year so we got a check for 1/3 of 96 hours if we hadn't been sick.
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sarcasticgirl
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Oct 30, 2014 14:15:44 GMT -5
We can sell back some vacation time at the end of the year, but I can't imagine ever trading it in. One of the reasons I took this job was for the vacation policy. I am maxed out at 6.5 weeks and still find myself wishing there were more days. I have places to go and things to do!!! If they offered me time and a half to sell back then i'd consider, maybe. my time is precious, I'm not giving it away!
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❤ mollymouser ❤
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Oct 30, 2014 14:41:17 GMT -5
My wonderful DH (active duty military) returned from yet another deployment not long ago, so he is permitted to sell back some of his accrued leave. I think he turned in the paperwork to sell back 10 days' worth.
He can only carry over a certain number of days per leave from year-to-year, so sometimes he has chosen to sell back "use it or lose it" leave after some deployments.
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