s/o Do you take all your vacation days?

[Muddled]

If you don't take all your days, do you get paid out or do they carry over?

[partiallysunny]

Mine cary over if I don't use them.

[esdreturns]

We can only carry over a week so I usually do that.

[Deleted]

Mine carry over. I get a base of two weeks and then an additional day every year I stay after 2 years. We can carry up to 288 vacation hours at a time before it rolls into sick leave.

[Muddled]

ESD, do you take all the days that don't roll over?

[esdreturns]

Yes because if I don't I lose them. That means I get to take 4 weeks off this year, woot! I usually like to save the one week to roll over because you never know, things happen.

[mortomo]

I do. Ours do not roll over. Once our anniversary day hits we get new ones and the old ones go away (we do not get paid for them if we don't use them). I usually end up taking every Friday off in summer to use them up. My anniversary date is early September and I get 4 wks of vacation p/yr.

[interro]

We lose them if we don't use them. There is some new effed up accrual method that never allows more than 80 hours of vacation to accrue and they touted it as rollover, but it's not. At all. We don't get paid for vacation we don't use, but we get paid 1/4 of any sick time we don't use. I got a check for like $10 last year.

[beebeeeater]

I'm the same as ESD (duh) - we can carry over 40 hours and we have to take anything above that. They pretty much force us to just take the days off because they don't pay you for them.

I've taken a week and a half and I still have three full weeks that I HAVE to use. LOVE that PTO!

[imoan]

Unused PTO carries over, but I think only a certain number are allowed to be carried over. I use them all. Lately I've been doing two big (week long) vacations a year, our annual Wed-Sun trip to Amish country and then a mental health day here or there.

[fussbucket]

I think we can accumulate up to something obscene like 400 hours, after which they just pay out the overage on your next paycheck. I don't think there is any way for us to lose earned vacation time/pay.

[sparkles17]

I use all of mine. They are use it or lose it. I get 3 weeks, buy an additional week, get 2 personal days, sick "time" and also earn an additional personal day for donating to United Way and a 4th personal day is earned for working out at our company gym X amount of times per quarter. So, not including sick "time" (which is an extremely weird policy) with the days I'm given, earned, and buy I get 24 days off per year and use every last one of them.

[interro]

Fuck you all and your generous PTO.

I kid, I kid. I'm just wildly jealousE.

[ECB]

At my old job, nothing rolled over so I absolutely used it all.

Where I'm at now- vacation and sick days roll, personal and floating holidays don't. I always make sure to use what doesn't roll. To date, though, I've used everything every year, though. Having a toddler and a DH w/ a weird schedule has led to that, but I expect that in time, I'll start rolling over vacation and sick.

Sick in unlimited. Vacation caps out at 400 hours. I expect it will take me YEARS, if ever, to actually cap out!

[kaneen]

I'm almost afraid to tell you all that I have unlimited PTO at work.

Of course, the balance is that I almost NEVER have a good time to really check out of work. I almost always at least check email when on vacation.

[gault]

I got lucky at my job - 3 weeks of vacation and almost 2 of sick each year. You cap out at 2x your yearly vacation hours (so, I can accrue 6 weeks and then it stops until I actually take some of the vacation hours and dip below the 2x annual).

When you leave the university, I believe you can cash out the vacation, but not sick. And I use all the vacation I can get.

[malibu]

I use all mine. They're mine, dammit!! LOL

They do carry over if I don't use them in the same year, but have to be used by April 1st.

[maucat]

I'm not sure exactly how much we get, but I think it's at least 2 weeks. We accrue a small amount each pay period and our vacation & sick hours both roll over. I absolutely use my vacation time because we have NO paid holidays. At all. I recently used some sick time because I needed a day off and had over 30 sick hours accrued. I think we may get paid out for one or both when we leave, but I'm not sure.

[penelope]

Both sick and vacation time roll over for me. I get two weeks of sick and 2 weeks of vacation a year. (The longer you are here, the more you get, so after 5 years it will 3 weeks vacation, after 10 years you get 4 weeks, and after 15 you get 5 weeks). They allow you to accrue 30 days of vacation, before they start taking what you would earn per pay period instead of giving it.

Do I use all of mine? Heck yeah. With two kids, teacher in-service days, record days, half days and snow days, I am lucky to get to take 3 or 4 days a year for personal enjoyment. Sick time...not usually. If we use less than 40 hours per week of sick time, you get an extra day of vacation, so I have actually used vacation for a sick child, to not go over that amount and get the day back at the end of the year.

[starrieskies]

Our's don't roll over, but I rarely have a good time to use them... There's almost never a good time for me to take them.

[mortomo]

We don't have a set amount of sick days. It's up to our managers if the start to limit it or not. I don't even use one day a year.