My last job, I was an engineering team leader. They had me working so much, with different time zones, I was regularly working 70+ hour weeks. There was no time for vacation. So, I had weeks left at the end of the year. It would have gone poof. There was no carry-over. So, December 4th, I made myself go poof. That last paycheck was absolutely delicious. It was multiple paychecks worth. Suck it, old company.
What really sucks is that it was a German company, and the Germans got awesome perks like 35hr work weeks. Beer in the cantina for lunch. They were FORCED to take all their vacation. Instead of asked to cancel.
I still don’t get how an employer FORCES you to take leave. Not rolling over PTO is a reason to coerce people into planning time off.
Now overworking and not approving said PTO would be a different type of fuckery. However, truly unlimited PTO accrual is just a terrible liability for a company.
IKR!
I was like where?? America?
Every time I come on here I just fuckin love Australia more and more
4 weeks vacation 38 hour work week.
I look on at countries in Europe with their 5 or 6 weeks and 35 hour weeks with envy.
But yeah, we (Australia) do have it pretty good in comparison to many other places.
Same in NZ. That would be illegal here. They can force you to take leave, or they can pay you out, but it can’t just poof
Isn’t “go poof” the means by which to force taking leave?
I mean, they can tell YOU to poof, but they can’t make your LEAVE go poof like in the op
My last job, I was an engineering team leader. They had me working so much, with different time zones, I was regularly working 70+ hour weeks. There was no time for vacation. So, I had weeks left at the end of the year. It would have gone poof. There was no carry-over. So, December 4th, I made myself go poof. That last paycheck was absolutely delicious. It was multiple paychecks worth. Suck it, old company.
What really sucks is that it was a German company, and the Germans got awesome perks like 35hr work weeks. Beer in the cantina for lunch. They were FORCED to take all their vacation. Instead of asked to cancel.
I still don’t get how an employer FORCES you to take leave. Not rolling over PTO is a reason to coerce people into planning time off.
Now overworking and not approving said PTO would be a different type of fuckery. However, truly unlimited PTO accrual is just a terrible liability for a company.
No idea. One coworker of mine said they made him, he was gone for a month.