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Every where I have ever been has had a PTO tracker that was spotty, at best. And usually non-existent altogether.
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at my job the pto tracking system has been broken for two years, so we just take time when we feel like it and the whole thing sort of operates on the honor system. i've taken six weeks so far this year and we have a two week shutdown in december - feeling positively european.
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Oct 3, 2017 18:35
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Oldjob's PTO system was an executive assistant we rarely if ever saw in person with a terrible spreadsheet. We'd randomly get additional days; and you could prove that you'd worked on a day by bringing a printed copy of an email you'd sent that day. That place was a cluster gently caress on so many level.
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Oct 3, 2017 18:46
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The term is "inter-office", person who has worked here for twenty years. Not "inner-office", inter.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:26
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Sundae posted:I get that, but he posted the reverse: donate your vacation days. What are they doing? Guaranteeing the equivalent pay goes to the victims? Goes to UW? Doing jack poo poo and taking your vacation days? Basically, you give up a vacation day, and another employee in the affected area gets paid for one of the days off they had to take for the hurricane disrupting their life spincube posted:I'd heard banking staff were required to take a full fortnight off work per year, minimum, as part of their liability insurance. If you're embezzling money you can sort of let things go for a week and then pick up where you left off, but if you're taking two weeks off you'll need to delegate your work and thus risk being uncovered. Unless your delegate is in on your racket too I suppose? This may be a policy at some bank somewhere, but not at any that I have worked at. Reluctance to take time off is considered a red flag though,and if it occurs alongside other red flags may get them to be looking at you closely. Most banks start with 2 weeks vacation as the total entitlement, so requiring 2 weeks consecutive would be dictating how they can use their entire block of time off for employees with less than x years in. Also, when I was sales side, the bonus and performance metrics did not take time off into account, so if you took off too much time in a quarter you might not bonus and could even get written up for failing to hit your sales metrics in that quarter 
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Oct 3, 2017 20:02
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therobit posted:This may be a policy at some bank somewhere, but not at any that I have worked at. Reluctance to take time off is considered a red flag though,and if it occurs alongside other red flags may get them to be looking at you closely. It's policy at the European bank I work at, every single person needs to take 2 consecutive weeks off. It's very compolusory and they even check afterwards whether you logged in during that time. That said, people have at least 6 weeks of PTO.
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Oct 3, 2017 20:43
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How does 'unlimited' time off work? Being an american work practice, i'm expecting something particularly stupid and unfair. I used to accumulate as much leave as I could, but these days I pretty much use it up every year because I've got more going on than just work and I just take lots of small holidays and trips instead of the big block holiday that never materialised. I'm pretty sure that the bosses prefer it too as they don't have the prospect of an employee disappearing for months at a time.
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Oct 3, 2017 20:49
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Jaguars! posted:How does 'unlimited' time off work? Being an american work practice, i'm expecting something particularly stupid and unfair. "You can't leave then, you're on a really important project." "We notice you took a lot of time off last year (e.g. 2 weeks). Yes, the policy is that you have unlimited time off, but we are concerned you aren't fully invested in this organization, and we simply don't want to have employees working for us who aren't invested in our combined success." etc
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Oct 3, 2017 21:00
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It depends. It either means "you're an adult and the work you put in is directly tied to your compensation and review" (the rare, initial instance) or "effectively pretty much no vacation, and we don't have to count vacation days in finance so win win" (almost all of the time). You should generally run if they suggest "unlimited vacation" unless you're at a point in your career where you're writing your own ticket. That said, I have unlimited sick time and it's great because it's just a good idea to not encourage (or require!) people to come in sick.
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Oct 3, 2017 21:48
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Jaguars! posted:How does 'unlimited' time off work? Being an american work practice, i'm expecting something particularly stupid and unfair. just the first couple minutes, i promise
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Oct 3, 2017 22:02
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If you get offered unlimited vacation, ask how much vacation time the people on your team have taken in the last year.
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Oct 3, 2017 22:45
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If you get offered unlimited vacation, ask how much vacation time the people on your team have taken in the last year. Halloween Jack posted:just the first couple minutes, i promise
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Oct 3, 2017 22:57
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I also have unlimited sick time. Agree that it is a good idea. Usually end up working from home when I'm kind of sick, rarely take a true day off from being sick. Like today. I'd run like hell if I was offered unlimited PTO in lieu of vacation though.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:10
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tmi maybe
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Oct 3, 2017 23:17
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A 4% raise is pretty good where I'm from, unless there was a promotion or something else involved. In this day and age, you get raises by changing jobs.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:20
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A 4% raise is a cost of living increase, not a raise. Good on him for not actually getting a pay cut via a 0.5% raise or something though I guess.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:21
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Oh yea, I forgot that was with a promotion. Their documentation says 3.5% is their norm for annual cost of living increase. I wouldn't be that bummed about it only being 4% if he hadn't talked it up like it would be awesome.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:25
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Renegret posted:Every since we were bought out, the company has been offering voluntary retirement packages with looser and looser requirements, letting people leave by themselves with nice severance packages. Are the packages getting better and better as time goes on, or getting worse?
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Oct 3, 2017 23:41
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Volmarias posted:It depends. It either means "you're an adult and the work you put in is directly tied to your compensation and review" (the rare, initial instance) or "effectively pretty much no vacation, and we don't have to count vacation days in finance so win win" (almost all of the time). My one unlimited vacation job was the former. One guy hosed off to Europe for a month and got sucked into doing a PhD during that time, and I didn't suffer any consequences when I took three weeks off in the middle of summer. VPEng asked my boss if I was going to miss any important milestones, but my team didn't really have that kind of thing.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:54
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Jaguars! posted:How does 'unlimited' time off work? Being an american work practice, i'm expecting something particularly stupid and unfair. you get to dodge the fact that california labour law requires paying out employees for unused vacation days
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Oct 4, 2017 00:16
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:you get to dodge the fact that california labour law requires paying out employees for unused vacation days Other states also. Its regarded as an accounting liability (drat employees), so its better for the balance sheet. Which is why at my company we can roll over a week of PTO in to the next year, but are magically transformed in to "Admin hours", which can only be used once all of your PTO has been exhausted.
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Oct 4, 2017 01:34
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I just have use it or lose it  ;Most people tend to just take time off around big family holidays or their birthdays though.
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Oct 4, 2017 01:40
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Tnuctip posted:Other states also. Its regarded as an accounting liability (drat employees), so its better for the balance sheet. Which is why at my company we can roll over a week of PTO in to the next year, but are magically transformed in to "Admin hours", which can only be used once all of your PTO has been exhausted. sure, but not all (or even most) states. the reason I mention CA specifically is because it was made famous by bay area tech companies looking to avoid the exact accounting liability you mentioned
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Oct 4, 2017 02:37
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Volmarias posted:It depends. It either means "you're an adult and the work you put in is directly tied to your compensation and review" (the rare, initial instance) or "effectively pretty much no vacation, and we don't have to count vacation days in finance so win win" (almost all of the time). For my company is the former - taking PTO is absolutely encouraged to the point the the CEO has come around and hounded people about "why haven't you taken any PTO yet this year?" (at a 700+ person company) with a bit of the latter: it's not so much that finance doesn't have to "count" them - because HR does. But being a CA company they don't want to have the liability on their books. This one.....right down here: Jeb Bush 2012 posted:you get to dodge the fact that california labour law requires paying out employees for unused vacation days
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Oct 4, 2017 05:46
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Walh Hara posted:It's policy at the European bank I work at, every single person needs to take 2 consecutive weeks off. It's very compolusory and they even check afterwards whether you logged in during that time. That said, people have at least 6 weeks of PTO. Yeah, this was the case when I worked at a UK bank. Even for people in the call centres - you were required to book your main fortnight during the previous calendar year, to boot. Every October-ish you'd fill in a form with up to four possible choices for your two weeks off and then it got allocated based on seniority and GOD HELP YOU if you tried to cancel it.
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Oct 4, 2017 10:07
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Tnuctip posted:Are the packages getting better and better as time goes on, or getting worse? Staying the same, they're just lowering the eligibility requirements. I'm assuming this is just to prevent entire departments from accidentally disappearing.
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Oct 4, 2017 12:15
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Walh Hara posted:It's policy at the European bank I work at, every single person needs to take 2 consecutive weeks off. It's very compolusory and they even check afterwards whether you logged in during that time. That said, people have at least 6 weeks of PTO. Same-ish, 2 weeks for anyone with the ability to move money, 1 week for everyone without (e.g. back office analytics and such) at mine.
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Oct 4, 2017 13:24
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Get me pictures of this ERP system. Make sure they're pretty, These aren't pretty enough. gee I wasn't on board with spending literally hundreds of thousands / millions of dollars on this implementation but once I saw the green dashboard pop I was like take my money
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Oct 4, 2017 14:54
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Jordan7hm posted:Get me pictures of this ERP system. Make sure they're pretty, This but 100% unironically and with much larger numbers. The executives buying ERP software have no idea how it works or how to choose the best one. They can either admit they don't know anything and have a team of trusted experts carefully evaluate the best option that they'll learn to use, or be the big tough executive decision maker and choose the one with pretty screenshots that turns their incomprehensible massive enterprise into "green = I'm on track for my bonus, yellow = yell at people, red = yell louder." Which one do you think happens more often?
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Oct 4, 2017 15:14
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They take the first option and then the consultants pick the one that's prettier because they know that's what the client wanted in the first place and who are they to say how the client spends its money.
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Oct 4, 2017 15:17
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Space Gopher posted:This but 100% unironically and with much larger numbers. and that's why we spent 2 years creating a dashboard in OBIE that reduces every metric to a traffic light, but immediately stopped working after we moved it to production because our prod and test environments were different the whole time apparently  this is why i never want to be attached to a BI project ever again.
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Oct 4, 2017 15:34
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So we have a website. Its not a good website and we have known this for a while. We sat down today for the monthly status meeting and ended up reviewing our site vs other companies in the same line of work. Cue "oh that's great" and "oh last time I checked this was terrible". Ours is plainly the lame duck of the lot, but the boss thinks its OK because companies are "interested in actually getting stuff done not just pretty sites". After trying to convince him that maybe we'd get more speculative enquiries if our site didnt look five years out of date ive now been saddled with updating it. Yaaay.
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Oct 4, 2017 15:54
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Jaguars! posted:How does 'unlimited' time off work? Being an american work practice, i'm expecting something particularly stupid and unfair. They ended up scrapping the whole thing within a year anyway.
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Oct 4, 2017 18:03
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website projects are a blight on mankind
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Oct 4, 2017 19:22
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especially this website project, the something awful forums
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Oct 4, 2017 19:22
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please help me explain to a drunk, 60yo vp in germany at 8pm cet how to load a video onto his ipad without itunes or internet
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Oct 4, 2017 19:23
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Tell him to grease up the connection first by running water over it.
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Oct 4, 2017 19:35
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Mad Wack posted:please help me explain to a drunk, 60yo vp in germany at 8pm cet how to load a video onto his ipad without itunes or internet Make the two screens kiss while holding ctrl-c. You have to hold them together long enough for the video to transfer though. If you pull them apart too quickly it will look like nothing happened. Try again and wait twice as long this time. Repeat as necessary.
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Oct 4, 2017 19:47
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So today's Irrelevant Conference Call features our special guest, the Amazing Intermittent VOIP Connection, so I'm only hearing about 2 seconds of conversation out of every five. Mind you, most everyone (but not actually everyone) on the call is convened in a conference room about 10 feet away so I could just go in there but gently caress that, this is the only time I can actually get some uninterrupted work done.
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docbeard posted:. Congrats on being that guy.
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