Working brehs, do you utilize your sick hours? How much you got stacked?

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Mister Meaner

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In two years at my current job, I've called out once prior to this weekend. And I've never been too sick to go (flight left one day before vacation started, and they knew I was not showing up) but it's freaking awesome having that luxury.

Last week I decided to check all of my accrued holiday and sick hours and sheesh, 122 sick hours were just sitting there, waiting for me.

Combining days off and "sick" days, I'm on an unscheduled 6 day vacation; and it's honestly a very necessary break from the norm. Vacation hours, while relatively decent, aren't enough. One may not be physically sick, but mentally and physically drained. And if you feel like a sickness may be on the horizion (as I have been sneezing sporadically with a runny nose), there's no qualms to using those earned hours.








If you don't have sick hours at your job............. :frown: sorry.
 
Good job utilizing them. 

I have about 40 hours accrued through 8 months at the job. 

Gonna be taking a few Thursday Fridays off to go on vacation in the next couple of months.
 
My last job we had only one bucket for everything: time off, sick days, etc but the accrue rate is high.

This job has 8 sick days per year. IF you don't use them by the end of the year, they go away so people become "sick" a lot in November and December. It's lame to me because it can't be rollover or cashed out so it forced employees to pretend to be sick.
 
We do PTO as well (one bucket). I'm get 25 days per year, and can roll over five if I don't use them. Way more than enough.
 
I get 20 vacation/personal days yearly(no sick time) and can roll all of them over until April of the next calendar year.  I just burned four of em cause I was sick and didn't wanna miss the money.
 
We basically have 10 vacation days, 2 personal days and 2 "floating" days. My manager said the "floating" days can be whatever I want them to be. Only the vacation days accrue over time every year end. So, its best to use up your 2 personal and 2 floating days first or you lose them. Also, if I decided to leave the company, they would have to pay me for the remaining amount of vacation days I have left. They don't pay for personal and floating days.

I enjoy this method more than what I had during my previous job (small business banking). We only had vacation days (3 weeks worth) and you were required to take one full week each year and your time did not accrue.
 
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I've been working here for almost 4.5 years and have 395 hours of sick leave accrued
 
I'm still currently under a 6 month temp contract that comes up in March, but with the connections I have and how easy this company is with hiring I have a good chance to be brought on full time despite already working full time hours. I've been getting days off for holidays, but not getting paid.

If I do get brought back I think there's something like 10-11 holidays, maybe a week's vacation, and a few sick days. We also have comp hours where you can work overtime and rather than get paid you can store those hours and use them at a later date to take a day(s) off or leave early on Friday.

REALLY praying to get brought back for those benefits alone.
 
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I'm around 90 hours for sick leave time, get 3.69 added to sick/vacation days each paycheck (bi weekly). That's just under a year at my job , I can accumulate up to 250 hours of sick leave until they force us to use them. Are calendar year stops at the end of the month of September.
 
Olympus said:
I'm still currently under a 6 month temp contract that comes up in March, but with the connections I have and how easy this company is with hiring I have a good chance to be brought on full time despite already working full time hours. I've been getting days off for holidays, but not getting paid.

If I do get brought back I think there's something like 10-11 holidays, maybe a week's vacation, and a few sick days. We also have comp hours where you can work overtime and rather than get paid you can store those hours and use them at a later date to take a day(s) off or leave early on Friday.

REALLY praying to get brought back for those benefits alone.
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Interesting. Not sure I'd like this,but if it's optional, sounds pretty sweet.

At my company, if you work a holiday, you get the overtime rate & a personal holdiay in your bank.
 
Dont feel like lookin up the #'s, but i use sick leave all the time. Its good to have it in case you REALLY get sick, but you cant recoup that time like you can regular leave so i use it prolly once or twice a month.
 
My job you get 5 days pto, and 2 paid days off a year..you can roll that time over to March of the following year. We're on a point system for calling out (sick or whatever other reason) 1 day called out = 1 point. If you call out 2 days consecutively you only get hit with the one point.
 
i work for a small company (less than 20 employees) in a small department (3 of us) so its a real burden on my co-workers if one of us is out. we get 12 days vacation that can roll over, but we dont track sick days. if youre sick, stay home, that way you dont infect others and reduce productivity even more. that being said, everyone is on point with the honor system and no one really calls out if they arent sick because we all understand that we are only screwing each other over if we are calling out for a fake sick day. my department is pretty insulated so we kind of police each other. if one of us needs to take a half day or something to take care of some personal stuff, we just make sure the other person can cover.
 
I have 15 days with 1 floating holiday so really 16. But you can carry over 5 a year which i did so i started 2015 with 21 days. Can only use 5 sick days a year which is unexcused. I used 4 days pto already smh
 
I get almost 4 weeks of vacation time a year, everything is lumped into sick time and vacation though and is accrued every 2 weeks. Next year if I am still with the company (3 years) I get almost another week added on.
 
i have pto and vacation hours i never use for day of being laid off. low and behold im being laid off. $4 , 600 to be owed , before tax.
 
OP, what are you doing with your 6 day mini vacation? 

15 days PTO

All Federal Holidays are paid or you can come in and use the day another time (floating)

5 days sick

The ability to work from home 2-3 days a week is clutch for me though.  I never have to use PTO or sick days unless I'm actually planning a long vacation 
 
- 24 days of vacation
- Week off during 4th of July and Xmas and off New Year's Eve, New Years and day after. Due to shutdown.
- unlimited sick time.

Damn right I take advantage of it all.
 
dh1water dh1water , organizing my finances, applying to new jobs, and researching some grad programs.

The days just seem to roll into one long block of tiredness when working full time.
 
- 15 days of vacation
- 10 sick days
- 1 personal day
- federal holidays


Only sucky thing is i use my sick leave to take care of sick kids....so when i actually do get sick (re: sick kids) I just go to work.

Anybody's job have paternity leave? My last employer gave the wimminz 12 weeks paid off. They "allowed" me to use my sick leave to stay at home (1 week)
 
120 hours of paid vacation a year. over 100 hours of sick pay a year. I call in sick 2 days every 3 months and I'll never use all of that up.
 
3 weeks PTO :pimp: but i work like 45-55 hours a week so the scale levels eventually.
 
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