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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2009-05-17 05:52 pm

After chatting with a friend ...

The following poll will be very helpful in sorting some ideas. If you are in paid work and have a minute or two spare, it would be lovely to hear from you![Poll #1401151][Poll #1401151]

[identity profile] gabe-speaks.livejournal.com 2009-05-17 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, like sick time for me is . . . well, difficult to assess. You get 5.5 hour of accrued PTO [paid time off] each pay period. There's 26 2-week paid periods, so if I didn't use any the whole year, I could feasibly have 143 hours of PTO, which would be nearly a month off of work.

That's different from how it used to be over here where you were given oh so much sick time right off the bat, and then you had personal/vacation time, which you accrued and were awarded after, say, a year's time.

[I remember my mom had worked for a company for 20 years before she had used any sick time, and by the time she started to use it, she had damn near 8 months of sick time at her disposal.]

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-05-19 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you paid out sick leave when you leave the company? And I love the accrual system for it; it's so sensible given that most middle-aged people will have one significant health issue or another at some point, they should benefit from previous good health!