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How to use PTO (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 19 points 6 days ago (17 children)

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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Some jobs have zero pto! Its not required federally, and most states dont have regulations about it afaik.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    How does that work? Do you just have to throw a sicky and use your sick pay if you want to go on holiday?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Someone else explained that PTO is combined paid company sick days and holiday allowance. I assumed it was just the US term for holiday allowance.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    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.

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