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I thought I would ask this since one of the company’s policies here is pissing me off. Here in order to take any sick time we have to take 4 days of PTO, and then we can take a day or more of sick time. This really only bothers me because right now I feel like crap, and I am not taking personal time off since vacation is just a week away. Anyone else have to deal with stupid policies at the work place.

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Wow, that sounds like they’re penalizing you for being sick, which encourages you to show up at work when you are sick, which will infect more people and make them all sick. Is that why they say Texas is like a whole 'nother country?

<kidding!>

Thankfully, the policies here are not too bad. BUT, when I worked for IBM they had a policy (which was abused horribly btw) that if you felt sick to stay home. No PTO, no sick time, no nothing - just stay home. We had one guy on my team who never worked five days in a week as a result…

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Yes: No smoking on the premises.

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WOW that sucks.

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That does sound like an ill-considered policy. And I’m in Texas.

Time off is time off.

It you’re sick, and only need one day, then that’s all you should be off.

If the weather is nice, and you need some mental health days, just take what you need and call them “personal”.

When you are out of legitimate days off - don’t take off.

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+100

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And no consumption of alcohol or recreational drugs during working hours either!

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As a non smoker and someone who is allergic to cigarette smoke that is a good policy.

I think every company has some stupid policies. its just the nature of things.

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Here there’s a policy about not wearing jeans during business hours. I blatantly ignore it, and HR seems to ignore this “offense” (at least when I do it).

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Where I work, there are two policies regarding vacation that I HATE.

  1. You cannot use personal time (what we call sick time) and vacation time for the same absence, even if it is multiple days.

  2. You cannot take off more than one week at a time.

I personally think these are ridiculous. If I have accrued the time off and your manager says it is okay, what does it matter how long you are gone or if you use vacation and personal time?

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Where I work there is no sick or vacation time it’s all PTO. If you get 7 days per year of PTO, You’d better not get sick (or your children) or no vacay for you. I think it encourages people to come to work and spread illness when they should stay home and recover. But what do I know? #firstworldproblems

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The only one I have had any problems with is you have to be employed for a specific amount of time before you get paid holiday time.

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I currently get 1 week vacation and one week sick time. Vacation time accrues at the rate of like 2 hrs per pay period for anyone with under 5 years of time with the company. Greater levels of vacation time are accrued per pay period after the 5 years. I believe it’s pushing 6 hrs per. Plus the week of sick time.

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At my last place, PTO was Paid Time Off and you could use it however you wanted.

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Bad policies, sure. 95% of my job could be done from home, but I have to commute 45 minutes to an hour one way to be in the office. That, and they actually demand that I wear pants.

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I can honestly say this job is pretty good with policies. Now applying common sense is a different matter.

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I hate the pants-required policy!

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In my last place they had this stupid computerized system that calculated your right to sick days. So in a year I might of had 4 sick days, the software would look at my age how dispersed they were, one was on a friday probably for a night out etc and then print of a letter saying Im no longer entitled to payed sick leave for the remainder of the year. The fact that I had been ill all week and soldiering on and eventually through in the towel at the end of week was of course never noted in this software. Were as a secretary of about 50 would take 2 weeks sick leave twice a year for the sniffles but the software would see that as being legit. It drove me nuts.

Here the policy is different per person, useless people can take time off when ever they feel like come in late etc and its no issue. The more needed you are the more the crack down. Personally I can only take my holiday out of term time, if Im ill before hand they cancel it and bring me back in and they ask I only keep it short and stay contactable. Im about the only person who has these rules the rest do what they like.

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Yes, yes we do… none whatsoever concerning days off, Dutchlanders are lucky that way.

But my boss more than makes up for that :stuck_out_tongue:

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Where I work there is a 3 week period in the summer called “The Shutdown” (its the last 2 weeks July, first week August) - but the company does not actually shutdown - they just have a reduced workforce but some production continues. 15 days out of your annual leave entitlement has to be taken during (or just after if you are covering) this 3 week period but here is the twist… the holiday accrual runs from June-June and the 3 weeks for the shutdown need to come out of last years entitlement even though the shutdown is during the next years accrual period… so first year you work you don’t get to take those 3 weeks. Does that make sense to anyone?

You are also meant to take one week in easter, 2 weeks at Christmas (which I do like).