Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
to turn in my equipment or I'll be charged for it. First of all, my equipment is there.
I'm waiting for OP to suddenly come to the realization that he is paying for that equipment as well.
to turn in my equipment or I'll be charged for it. First of all, my equipment is there.
I pretty much was aware of this already, but I still feel I need to say how much this sucks. How is this not a major issue in local or national politics? It seems the entire US workforce is being exploitedThere is no paid holiday entitlement in the US like in the UK, as you probably know.
Some companies draw a distinction between "vacation" time, personal days (which are often but not always thought of as one-offs), and sick leave, any of which can be paid or not paid per the individual company's policy. Some companies combine personal days/vacation into a single category. Many companies also offer certain holidays (typically federal holidays like Christmas, Memorial Day, or Labor Day) as paid time off that doesn't count against the other categories. It's entirely the company's discretion.
Whhaaat? I didn't know that. What the fuck?!
I'm in Germany, and I have 30 days/year. I never even use them all because 30 days seems like a ridiculous amount. Unfortunately I don't get paid if I don't take them, I just lose them.
If you don't have a right to paid holiday, how do you take time off work?
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
I pretty much was aware of this already, but I still feel I need to say how much this sucks. How is this not a major issue in local or national politics? It seems the entire US workforce is being exploited
No paid annual leave....it's crazy
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
So OP basically went:Where I work (a Fortune 100 company with offices around the world) Personal days are defined as one-off occurrences
and separate than sick days. Like taking off for a sick child, close family member emergencies we have to call in just like a sick day and inform management. My wife teaches and her personal time is banked and can be used for pretty much anything as long as she calls it in (she doesnt get formal vacation time).
lol it depends on the employer, most good companies are at least decent so they can keep good employees. For example mine, after a 6 month probation period everyone earns 8 hours of paid sick leave a month (8 hour work day so essentially 12 sicks days a year).Whhaaat? I didn't know that. What the fuck?!
I'm in Germany, and I have 30 days/year. I never even use them all because 30 days seems like a ridiculous amount. Unfortunately I don't get paid if I don't take them, I just lose them.
If you don't have a right to paid holiday, how do you take time off work?
So OP basically went:
"OK, I don't actually have any kind of emergency that these days are meant for but I'm just going to stick a load in anyway because I feel like I'm entitled to."
Sorry man, I got no sympathy for you, that was a dumb move especially as your boss baited you into it.
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
Germany has 20 days for every full time worker (5 days/week), although in nearly every company it's at least 24 days and in most bigger companies (>1000 employees) it's 30 days. Usually, you can take your leftover vacation days over to the next year but have to use them in the first quarter then. Additionally, if you are sick you are still paid (no "sick days" nonsense), at least for 6 straight weeks (afterwards it will be lower, but you still get a share!).lol it depends on the employer, most good companies are at least decent so they can keep good employees. For example mine, after a 6 month probation period everyone earns 8 hours of paid sick leave a month (8 hour work day so essentially 12 sicks days a year).
And you earn paid vacation time depending on how long you have worked there. <2 years is 8 hours of paid vacation a month for 12 paid vacation days a year. 5 to 10 years is 10 hours a month, 15-20 years is 13 hours a month. So even a brand new employee has 12 days of both paid sick and vacation days off for a total of 24 a year. 30 days like in Germany would be nice, but my stuff rolls over year to year so it's not too bad.
Why the fuck would you or anyone else work for your employer?In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
So OP basically went:
"OK, I don't actually have any kind of emergency that these days are meant for but I'm just going to stick a load in anyway because I feel like I'm entitled to."
Sorry man, I got no sympathy for you, that was a dumb move especially as your boss baited you into it.
Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
I worked at a call center earlier this year, and we accrued 10 days off each year, and it was useable in 15 minute chunks- which means you could take 90 minutes off if you had to go to the dentist or something in the morning. It fucking sucked because if you were more than 30 seconds late on clocking in at the start of the day or from Lunch, they took away a 15 minute chunk if you had one to cover for the time.
In the UK the sick leave is even longer I think.Wait, so if you're sick, you have to take a "vacation day" ?
If I'm sick, I don't lose any of my paid time off days, I just don't come in. I think it's allowed for 3 days straight without a doctor's note, then after that you need a signed note from a doctor for up to a week. I've only ever taken 1 sick day so far, because I tend to get ill when I go on holiday unfortunately.
I believe (but I'm not really sure, so take it with a pinch of salt) that you get full pay if you're sick for up to 4 weeks, then half pay if you're sick up to 6 months. Not entirely sure about it, but I remember some details like that. Other Germans will have a better understanding, since I've not been working here for long. It may also vary by company.
Whhaaat? I didn't know that. What the fuck?!
I'm in Germany, and I have 30 days/year. I never even use them all because 30 days seems like a ridiculous amount. Unfortunately I don't get paid if I don't take them, I just lose them.
If you don't have a right to paid holiday, how do you take time off work?
To be clear it's not that no one gets it. It's that there's no requirement to provide it.
My experience:
In my non-professional part time jobs, I had no "paid leave", though employers usually worked with me so I could make up hours at another time so I wasn't "out" any income, and they had someone else covering my normal shifts. This isn't the case for all such jobs, but I was pretty lucky and have known others with good employers and similar experiences.
In my professional full-time positions (including co-operative internships in college), I've always had paid leave, both sick and vacation time. My current employer, which I've been with for nearly 18 years, allows us to accrue and roll over all of our paid leave; there is no use it or lose it here. (I realize I'm fortunate on this front, though I make sacrifices in other benefits of this job). You start off here earning one day vacation time and one day sick time per month. For every five years employment, your vacation leave accrual rate increases by 1/4 of a day though sick leave remains unchanged. That caps at 20 years employment when you are earning 2 days of vacation every month (and like I said, still 1 day sick leave).
The situation is different for every employer, but most full time jobs do get paid vacation in some form, it just isn't a legal requirement. There are problems with the US work culture but it isn't the dystopian hellscape that some discussions imply.
I pretty much was aware of this already, but I still feel I need to say how much this sucks. How is this not a major issue in local or national politics? It seems the entire US workforce is being exploited
No paid annual leave....it's crazy
The 3 days were for Sun. Mon. and Tue.
Today(Wed) I called in. I put in for Sun. Mon. and Tue. weeks ago and it was approved.
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
Wait, so if you're sick, you have to take a "vacation day" ?
If I'm sick, I don't lose any of my paid time off days, I just don't come in. I think it's allowed for 3 days straight without a doctor's note, then after that you need a signed note from a doctor for up to a week. I've only ever taken 1 sick day so far, because I tend to get ill when I go on holiday unfortunately.
I believe (but I'm not really sure, so take it with a pinch of salt) that you get full pay if you're sick for up to 4 weeks, then half pay if you're sick up to 6 months. Not entirely sure about it, but I remember some details like that. Other Germans will have a better understanding, since I've not been working here for long. It may also vary by company.
That's awful. What happens if you get mandatory jury service?
Why the fuck aren't there basic employee rights for fuck's sake?!
That's awful. What happens if you get mandatory jury service?
Why the fuck aren't there basic employee rights for fuck's sake?!
It is a dystopian hellscape if you're in the working class. My father is and he struggles to take a full week off much less anything more than that. I HATE it for him and dream of the day that he hits Medicare/SS eligibility and can retire so my family can actually spend time with him.
He and tens of millions of others make me realize how lucky my wife and I are to have 6 and 5 weeks of paid time off respectively that we can take pretty much whenever we want. And that's in addition to the week plus of holiday time we get. If I could give some of my paid time off to my Dad I would in a heartbeat.
In many jobs you just don't take time off work.
I live in the US and at my current job I accrue 14 "paid time off" days per year, however it is written right into the employment contract that if an employee takes more than 2 days off per year (paid or unpaid) the employee cannot get a good score on the yearly review. Raises are based solely on your overall score on your yearly review. So if you take more than 2 days off per year you get no raise.
I would say well over 90% of the employees here haven't had a raise in the last 5 years.
I live in a state that has no employment law of its own, so employers are only regulated by the federal laws which are laughable. And by the way, I work for the government, so this should paint you a pretty good picture of how abysmal labor laws are in the US.
Edit: Just wanted to add for clarification that the "paid time off" is an umbrella that includes sick days, vacations, and basically any other reason to take off work except FMLA time which is unpaid anyway. I have no idea if FMLA time would count against your 2 days, I imagine it would.
I'm pretty sure they're supposed to pay those out if you don't use them. This sounds pretty shady.
As I understand they should pay you out if it is PTO, even if they let you go. You earned those hours. At least get those.
As I understand they should pay you out if it is PTO, even if they let you go. You earned those hours. At least get those.
Personal anecdote here, but I have found that some jobs dislike you actually using those personal days that expire.
I've used most of mine this year and all the carryover I had last year due to illness and such and gotten some pretty rude comments from upper management and HR for it.