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Vacation Time - Did you use all of yours? (1 Viewer)

Does your work place allow Leave time to roll over?

  • Yes, unlimited

    Votes: 8 5.7%

  • Yes but the total is capped.

    Votes: 82 58.6%

  • No, it's "use it or lose it" each year.

    Votes: 45 32.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 3.6%
  • Total voters
    140
Arizona Ron

Arizona Ron

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I understand different work places have different policies for Vacation Time; some combine Sick Leave and Vacation Time into "Paid Time Off (PTO)". Also, I know some companies still allow vaction time to roll over (which is crazy).

For the purposes of this poll, Vacation Time and Sick time are the same thing ("Leave Time"); add up your total allowable paid leave time this year (however the classification).

Do not include paid holidays.

For the last 5 years or so, I get 3 weeks of Leave time each year. I have never used all three weeks, ever. This year I'll lose 2 weeks simply because I've been too busy chasing money.

 
Left about 3 or 4 days on the table. Then again, many days I half-assed it, so it kinda works out.

 
our "sick time" is capped at 40 hours annually, no rollover.

"vacation time" accrues and can be carried over year to year, no cap.

 
I had used up all my vacation time (15 days) by about July. I anticipate I'll run out this coming year around April.

 
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We can still use 2012 PTO through the first week of January 2013, so I'll end up using all but 3 or 4 days. I won't really lose those, since we can carryover up to 5 days.

 
'Quint said:
our "sick time" is capped at 40 hours annually, no rollover."vacation time" accrues and can be carried over year to year, no cap.
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So what happens if you have say 10 weeks rolled over and you decide to leave the company? Do they pay it out?
 
I can accrue up to 24 days, capped, roll-over, at a rate of 2 days per month. I used 20 days last year but I'll hit the cap in Jan so I'll have to take a couple of days each month or loose them. Sick time I have like 4 weeks and only ever use 3 or 4 days a year but I don't really count that as "leave" time.

 
I'm a contractor at the 3M corperate offices and this has been a huge topic over the last 2 years. They previously had no cap and allowed people to carry over and people were retiring with more than a years worth of PTO built up that they had to pay out at the end. Of the 10 3M'ers on my team, I'd say half of them had at least 500 hours of banked PTO they were forced to use over the last 2 years, plus their yearly allotment.

As a contractor, I accrue PTO and can carry over up to 160 hours at years end.

 
I get 3 weeks vacation, 5 personal days and 3 floating holidays, and will use them all. I'm off on Friday until Jan. 2. :thumbup:

 
Well technically I get 80 hours of personal time to use as I like. I can use it in hourly or daily increments so it's pretty flexible. I am pretty sure I have about 8 hours left for the year. But I use it mostly for dealing with stuff like taking my wife to the doctor rather than a pleasant vacation break. I did use a couple of days just to hang out at the house this year in conjunction with a 3 day holiday though so that was nice.

 
At a use or lose company. For some reason, they can't understand why so many people take time off in December.

 
Think I'm losing 5 days. I get 23 by default and can carry over 10.

The issue is that I started in June a couple of years ago. I didn't want to take vacation right after starting so I barely used any days that year. So I carried over 10 and can't get out of the hole.

Need to take more days off next spring. Eventually I'll take a full week and catch up

 
'Arizona Ron said:
'Quint said:
our "sick time" is capped at 40 hours annually, no rollover."vacation time" accrues and can be carried over year to year, no cap.
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So what happens if you have say 10 weeks rolled over and you decide to leave the company? Do they pay it out?
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yes. though we're a small company, the culture there encourages using vacation time throughout the year. much different than a former employer who had a policy of capping both vacation and sick time, with no rollover, and then made it as difficult as possible to take any time off.
 
'Rayderr said:
At a use or lose company. For some reason, they can't understand why so many people take time off in December.
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Our fiscal year ends June 30 and this year management asked everyone to make a concerted effort to plan their days off better because so many departments were understaffed in June. I have to use over 9 days between now and June 30 to keep from losing any. No problem.I reached the carryover limit in my first year so from there on out I use all of it earned in any given year. I'm looking forward to my first two-week vacation ever sometime in the near future.
 
I can rollover sick leave indefinitely -- 1253 hours and counting. We can cash this out (not at full value, but still) at retirement, so I don't use it unless I really need to.

Vacation time is capped at 160 hours, and I'll need to start using mine relatively soon because I'll hit that cap sometime in the spring.

 
'jason12vb said:
I'm a contractor at the 3M corperate offices and this has been a huge topic over the last 2 years. They previously had no cap and allowed people to carry over and people were retiring with more than a years worth of PTO built up that they had to pay out at the end. Of the 10 3M'ers on my team, I'd say half of them had at least 500 hours of banked PTO they were forced to use over the last 2 years, plus their yearly allotment.
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Exactly the kind of nightmare I went through at an old company. They changed the policy to use or lose when some people had months, even years of carry over. Some people quit so they wouldn't lose the time at the end of the year; it was literally a choice for one guy I know to quit and take a check for 88k or stay with the company. Some employees that stayed sought legal advice to try get their money that was promised when they were hired. The last few months of that year was a ghost time and several project went to ####. The budget that year was all screwed up because now the millions of dollars in leave time just sitting there was largely cashed out in a few months.Stupid as hell.
 
When I was at Ford for 12 years I used every vacation day earned every year. Did not know anybody that left vacation time unused. Plus if I was traveling and working weekend events I would accrue extra days off. Usually took those on some Fridays to golf in the summer.

Now that I am on my own I just arrange whenever.

 
I get 28 days/year. We used to be able to carry over up to 240hrs, and cash out up to 80hrs/yr. You would get paid out any unused PTO when you leave the company.

As of 1/1/13, our entire PTO will be front-loaded and we will no longer accrue it or carry any over. We will get paid whatever our current outstanding balance is the first week of January, then that's it for PTO cash-outs. I used to enjoy the hours I'd cash in, but I'm really looking forward to using all of my time instead.

 
My last job was awesome. You got 3 weeks of leave. You could carry over 2. Anything extra got cashed out. Always got a nice big paycheck in January as I rarely took vacation.

 
Ours is use it or lose it. I take all of my 20 vacation days. Also, I am allowed to reclassify 2 of the sick days as "personal days" and take those. I don't use any sick days though.

 
we usually don't have "rollover" days, but since there have been so many layoffs and people trying to right the ship, there are a lot of folks that didn't use vacation time in 2012. So, they allowed some to roll over into 2013, but all rollovered vacation must be used by June and if you were to leave the company, I don't believe you will be compensated for rolled over vacation.

I have one day left that I don't have anything planned for. I was going to take it this Friday because, all things being equal, I'd rather be at home than at work, but don't have anything planned - just a day to veg out. Since they have this new roll-over policy though, I'll take that day in January when I fly out to Denver to watch a playoff game.

 
I get 27 days a year (vacation, sick, personal days combined) and can roll over a total of 41. I always keep my 41 and use 15 to 20 days each year.

I just don't need or want to be off that much.

 
I get 6 weeks, we can save up to 11 weeks before we stop accruing. No way I can realistically use 6 weeks in a year, I hover around 400 hours saved. Also get 6 sick days and 2 personal days. I do use those.

 
'McGarnicle said:
I get 3 weeks vacation, 5 personal days and 3 floating holidays, and will use them all. I'm off on Friday until Jan. 2. :thumbup:
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Same here, except I only used 2 weeks this year, so I'm rolling one week over to next year, giving me 4. After that, they're not allowing rollover anymore, but in 2014, I hit my 11th year here and go to 4 weeks so by only taking 2 in 2012, I just accelerated the process of getting to 4 weeks annually by one year.
 
I get 120 hours per year vacation time and can accrue up to two years worth (240 hours). Unused vacation in excess of the 240 years is paid out the first week of February. I also get 56 hours sick/personal time and can accrue up to 500 hours comp time. Unused sick time gets rolled into an extended illness bank.

Right now I have 240 hours worth of vacation time, 500 hours worth of comp time, 38.5 hours of sick/personal time, and 168 hours of extended illness. I have taken 184 hours off this year via comp time. I get another 120 hours of vacation time January 1, so will get 120 hours paid out the first week in February.

Due to comp time, I have not had to use a single vacation day in over 4 years.

 
'ssherman said:
I get 120 hours per year vacation time and can accrue up to two years worth (240 hours). Unused vacation in excess of the 240 years is paid out the first week of February. I also get 56 hours sick/personal time and can accrue up to 500 hours comp time. Unused sick time gets rolled into an extended illness bank.Right now I have 240 hours worth of vacation time, 500 hours worth of comp time, 38.5 hours of sick/personal time, and 168 hours of extended illness. I have taken 184 hours off this year via comp time. I get another 120 hours of vacation time January 1, so will get 120 hours paid out the first week in February.Due to comp time, I have not had to use a single vacation day in over 4 years.
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Are you an elected member of Congress?
 
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'Da Guru said:
'ssherman said:
I get 120 hours per year vacation time and can accrue up to two years worth (240 hours). Unused vacation in excess of the 240 years is paid out the first week of February. I also get 56 hours sick/personal time and can accrue up to 500 hours comp time. Unused sick time gets rolled into an extended illness bank.Right now I have 240 hours worth of vacation time, 500 hours worth of comp time, 38.5 hours of sick/personal time, and 168 hours of extended illness. I have taken 184 hours off this year via comp time. I get another 120 hours of vacation time January 1, so will get 120 hours paid out the first week in February.Due to comp time, I have not had to use a single vacation day in over 4 years.
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Are you an elected member of Congress?
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Haha, no. Field engineer. Can go long stretches were there is no work, although that hasn't happened since I started here over 4 years ago.
 
My boss doesn't keep track of vacation days. I have no idea how many I've actually taken, although I have taken 2 week+ international vacations this year (look at me! I don't have kids and have a job!). I've probably used more than what's allotted, but that's what happens when no one keeps track.

My wife has no official policy for PTO, nor maternity leave. For staff, there's a policy, but there's nothing in the faculty handbook for those things.

 
Rolling over 40 hrs of my accrued 120 vacation and 20 hrs sick. Capped at 1 year's worth of roll-over. Used to be able to cash out both, but that option isn't available this year.

 
'moleculo said:
'Arizona Ron said:
I applaud the people that use all of their leave time.
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why would you not?You are doing yourself and your company a disservice by not being as fresh/rejuvenated as you could possibly be.
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I understand that thinking, but I've learned at my job (consulting engineering) there is no such thing as a day off. The work just gets pushed to a later date and the deadlines never move. End up with less time to do the same work.
 
I accrue 9.5 hours every 2 weeks about 6 weeks a year. I can carry over 126 hours. This past year I had to cash out 20 hours or else it goes into an extended bank that you can only get to for extreme circumstances (Birth of kid or really sick).

To try and keep up, I take random days off just for the sake of using a day. We have a very good ETO Policy.

 
3 sick days unused, 1 personal day, which I'll use on the 31st. Have something like 130 hours of vacation that will carry over (accrues to 160) but will need to burn some of it early in the year as I accrue about 3 hours per week. No ability to cash it out.

Also get 5 personal days and 5 sick days accrued over the course of the year that don't roll over at all so typically use those first.

 
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'Amused to Death said:
'moleculo said:
'Arizona Ron said:
I applaud the people that use all of their leave time.
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why would you not?You are doing yourself and your company a disservice by not being as fresh/rejuvenated as you could possibly be.
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I understand that thinking, but I've learned at my job (consulting engineering) there is no such thing as a day off. The work just gets pushed to a later date and the deadlines never move. End up with less time to do the same work.
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ThisI will have a week or so when I'm not in the office, away on business or even personal trips. Either way, my phone doesn't stop ringing and I respond to emails 7 days a week so really never "off".
 
Our company only allows you to roll over up to 16 hours past year-end, which need to be used before Jan 15 of the following year. Any time off that you don't use, you get paid straight-time for the hours.

I am rolling over a day and a half, which I'll use before January 15. No cash payout, I want my days off.

I am out of the office starting today and returning on Thursday 1/3 :excited:

 
Receive 3 weeks per year for leave time. By years end, I should have had 3 days left that I did not use. (Ours does not roll-over). Working on a 13 person team, 8 of us used vacation time to cover between Xmas and New Years - which has been standard practice. Our team found out this morning that the boss has elected to give the entire team this time off. Essentially, everyone who used all of their time and can not take next week off will still get it off. Those of us who planned ahead and scheduled time off are screwed, as we will not be comped any additonal time off, nor will any un-used days rollover.

Love the way things are communicated around here from the top down. :wall:

 
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