Vacation time increments

[Deleted]

So I need to leave 30 mins early today. I am salaried so it should not be a big deal right? Wrong. I know my boss will want me to use vacay time for it. Fine I still have 90 hours use or loose by the end of the yr.

So I go into the the time keeping system to deduct .5 from my vacy balance. I got an error msg saying vacation must be deducted in 1 hr increments. I am so annoyed.

Anyway, what increments are you ladies allowed to take vacation in. I have never heard of 1 hour increments before. All my other jobs we could do .25, .5, .75 or 1.

[cjeanette]

Can't you just stay 30 min late tomorrow?

[definitelyO]

we can only take PTO in 2 hour incrememts! but as a salary ee we have a lot of flexibility and my boss doesn't care.

[Deleted]

8 hours at a time

I'm salary. When I leave early, call-in sick, etc I still get paid for 8 hours per day. I'll often come in early or stay over another day to make it up, so I don't get the side eye. That said, there is no way to accrue vacation time here. I get two weeks per year and I've been here 5.5 years, so I'd throw an all out tantrum if I had to use time whenever I needed to leave early or something.

[Deleted]

No I really cant. But I can "come" in 30 mins earlier...before she gets in.

[Deleted]

Oct 3, 2012 14:47:01 GMT -5 definitelyO said:

we can only take PTO in 2 hour incrememts!

Oct 3, 2012 14:47:21 GMT -5 papiercherri said:

8 hours at a time

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Ok then I guess I need to stop my bitching

[Deleted]

We can take any PTO in .25 hour increments.

[Ashley&Scott]

.25 hr increments for me.

[puppyluv]

We only report in half and full days. Can you work through lunch another day this week to make it up?

[KaraOrNot]

We can take it in one minute increments. I don't know why anyone would, but we can!

[gt7301b]

We can only take leave in 8,9,10 hr increments (for those with flex schedules). We can use up to 4 hours of flex time a pay period.

[Deleted]

Oct 3, 2012 14:55:11 GMT -5 puppyluv said:

We only report in half and full days. Can you work through lunch another day this week to make it up?

We are not allowed to work through lunch if we work more than 4 hours. Yes, silly...I know

[Deleted]

.25 increments

I have never, ever had to use vacation time for leaving early or coming in late by 30 minutes. I always just make it up the day before, of, or after. Your boss sounds like a biatch.

[fbf2006]

Oct 3, 2012 14:58:25 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

I have no idea. I would only ever use it if it were at least a half day. Otherwise, I just assume I will make it up at some point.

Me too!

[Deleted]

I don't have to use time at all if I bill that day.

but I wouldn't be docked time for leaving 30 min early anyway. that's so nitpicky.

I have clients whose employees can take it in 1 hr increments.

[ejpint]

We're only full day. As salaried and exempt, under our policy, being sick or taking part of a day off doesn't count against my vacation time.

[Deleted]

I don't bother with small increments, but our smallest vacation/sick increment is a half day.

That matters more to the non-legal staff (who have 9-5 like hours) than to lawyers though because my hours only really matter by yearly billable hour requirement. How much vacation time I've taken will only ever matter really for the year I leave the firm (and can cash out unused time from that year).

[explorer2001]

To answer the question asked: whatever increments I want.

More realistically: we can make up hours missed one day on any other day in the same week with no issue. The only time this gets sticky is if it crosses monthly cut offs. Generally if you aren't going to be in the office it goes on the calendar so people aren't looking for you. Questions get asked if you are doing something weird or your work isn't getting done, but otherwise we are expected to behave like professionals and are treated as such.

My PTO bank is over 100 hrs right now. They don't start limiting roll over until 500 hours or something.

[Deleted]

I can take PTO in as little as .25 hr increments

[Deleted]

Oct 3, 2012 15:00:29 GMT -5 cuadrado said:

Your boss sounds like a biatch.

oh she is a gem

[dragonfly08]

When I was working, I didn't really have sick/vacation time. If I had to miss a class I had to find coverage. Cancelling was a last resort that was really frowned on.

DH works a flex schedule, so as long as he puts in his 40 hrs/week, is there during the core hours (10-3, I think) most of the time, and doesn't cross pay periods, he can leave early today and make it up tomorrow, etc. And even with the "core" time, as long as he doesn't have a meeting and preferably has given his boss a heads up he's fine.

[Deleted]

I think it's 0.5. I'm not really sure since I never needed to use that little of vacation time. I always try to make up the time if I need to leave early or come in late.

[80sjunkie]

I'm not sure what it is for us. I think as a HS teacher DH can take leave in half day increments.

[lindyanne]

When I worked we had to take it in 4 hour increments but I wouldn't have to take it for that.

[livinitup]

You've never worked an extra 30 minutes sometime ? What the hell with your boss?

[Nonny]

I know we go down to an hour for sure, but not sure if it goes smaller than that because I've never tried to enter a time that small. Things are flexible enough around here that if you need to leave 30 minutes early, you just leave 30 minutes early and it's a give you make it up later (or possibly you already have).

[LoveTrains]

We can only take vacation or sick time in full or half day increments, but yeah for leaving 30 min early, I would just leave 30 min early.

[ssmjlm]

30 minutes but I've had several supervisors say don't give me leave if it's not at least a hour.

[aurora]

Oct 3, 2012 17:31:16 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

We can only take vacation or sick time in full or half day increments, but yeah for leaving 30 min early, I would just leave 30 min early.

This, or the joke around here is that to make up for having to leave early you come in late.

[kershnic]

Yikes, that's crazy. We can't take vacation in anything less than half day (3.5hrs since we're on a 35hr work week.) But anytime within a pay period we can flex time as long as it adds to 70 for the pay period and you get your work done.