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All-In [30827]
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If you normally use up all your vacation by March
Jan 19, 2022, 6:18 AM
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Then I don’t believe you when you use your 5 sick days in the first 2 weeks of the year. You ain’t sick. You just laying out.
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Legend [17909]
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Re: If you normally use up all your vacation by March
Jan 19, 2022, 7:38 AM
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well, sometimes a fellow just needs a mental day... or two.
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Legend [15051]
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So, use up sick leave first and then vacation
Jan 19, 2022, 7:52 AM
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Got it. We used to have a few regulars who were sick primarily on Mondays. Our employees who did that got a higher (much higher) rate of random substance testing. Turns out some of them were also poor test takers.
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Heisman Winner [135851]
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Once worked at a place that gave 1.25 sick days a month
Jan 19, 2022, 8:34 AM
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accrued up to 60 and the gal that I shared responsibilities with would be out the 1st Friday of every month and the following Monday every 4th month. Meant I was doubled up on work a lot.
She got pregnant and started freaking out because she had no accumulated leave.
We were not sympathetic.
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CU Medallion [60222]
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this month marks 11 years without a sick day for me
Jan 19, 2022, 9:10 AM
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last sick day was in January of 2011.
I probably just jinxed it by bringing it up. But it's a pretty nice "accomplishment". Especially through all the crap of the last 2 years.
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Oculus Spirit [75714]
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I hope you at least use sick time for various
Jan 19, 2022, 9:14 AM
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appointments and stuff.
At my old gig we didn't really have sick time. They called it discretionary. We got 7 days and those would be paid out in December if not used. I would hold on tight to mine and make it out like a tiny bonus.
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CU Medallion [60222]
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if it's just an hour or so, I don't use anything
Jan 19, 2022, 9:26 AM
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boss is cool that way. He knows I make up for it staying late, travel during off hours, coming in on weekends, middle of the night, etc. when necessary. Salary people never get truly paid for all the hours they put in. I hate to think about all the "free" hours I've put in over the years.
Sick time is sacred time to me - you should NEVER use it unless you are actually physically ill. Bad karma otherwise. I'm just wired that way.
Otherwise if it's like a half day or something, I just use vacation time because I can never use it all I have so much built up.
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Heisman Winner [105529]
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I worked with alot of people like that at the City
Jan 19, 2022, 9:21 AM
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and they let you know they never took sick time any time it was brought up, even when they were sick, because there was "pressure" on them to keep coming in. Yes, Doug, your four-man waterline crew will be fine if you stay out of the shop for a day or two with the flu. But nah, Doug brings it to everyone else who takes it home to the kids just to never take a sick day. Those people also didn't have kids or the wife would always stay home with a sick kid, women's work and all.
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Oculus Spirit [75714]
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I blame boomer's fathers and their fathers
Jan 19, 2022, 9:24 AM
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before them.
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CU Medallion [60222]
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but I actually haven't been sick during that time
Jan 19, 2022, 9:38 AM
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I have a few pollen/ragweed allergies from time to time, but that's not contagious. If I had something spreadable, I'd stay out, I'm not a selfish idiot. Never had the flu.
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CU Medallion [60222]
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I somehow knew that would trigger people
Jan 19, 2022, 9:48 AM
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being a generally healthy person tends to draw strange reactions, not sure why. It's like you are somehow obligated to be sick and it upsets people if you aren't. What am I supposed to do?
I'm just fortunate that I've been healthy most all my life, and I DO appreciate that every day.
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Heisman Winner [135851]
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Me too
Jan 19, 2022, 9:57 AM
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When I was young went years without a sick day
Just didn’t need them
Hated the higher ups for giving out piddling gift cards for no time out, all it did was bring scorn
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CU Medallion [60222]
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I suppose it's like the Perfect Attendance kids in school
Jan 19, 2022, 10:15 AM
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We all hated those little dogooders. I guess I'm now one of those, so I deserve whatever scorn I get.
I just don't get a certificate to frame and hang on my wall for it  ">
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This is exactly how poors continue
Jan 19, 2022, 9:12 AM
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to poor. I know some poors that do this on the regular and they are friends of mine. I get onto them but you can’t change those folk. They are who they are.
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What is this "All" your PTO?
Jan 19, 2022, 9:12 AM
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It's tough to run out of it when you have unlimited.
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Oculus Spirit [75714]
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Being in a situation with unlimited AND really being
Jan 19, 2022, 9:15 AM
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able to take it seems to be rare.
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Oculus Spirit [81053]
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We're all scared to take it now.
Jan 19, 2022, 9:16 AM
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Its BS.
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All-TigerNet [11019]
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We're all required to take a minimum of 3 weeks
Jan 19, 2022, 11:32 AM
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at my new company, and encouraged to take more.
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Oculus Spirit [81053]
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They did that with us a few years ago.
Jan 19, 2022, 9:15 AM
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Couched it as some kind of big benefit; basically, all it meant was they didn't have to pay anyone out for anything when they got canned.
And we have "unlimited PTO" (but please don't take more than 3 weeks a year, and we have to record all of it).
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Heisman Winner [105529]
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I have yet to be denied any of my unlimited PTO and that
Jan 19, 2022, 9:16 AM
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included a 2 week trip last summer.
There were some beach trips in there as well, but often I would work on my laptop at the beach until lunch, then drink the rest of the day.
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Oculus Spirit [81053]
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I don't know anyone who has taken 2 weeks, much less
Jan 19, 2022, 9:19 AM
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3, so I'm not sure what they would do if we took more than 3 weeks.
With everyone quitting their jobs, ironically, now they are afraid that everyone will quit. People are dropping like flies around here. After I move, I hope to the next.
This company is bi-polar sometimes.
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I took 2 weeks when my daughter was born
Jan 19, 2022, 10:20 AM
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When I asked for two weeks, boss said, "you can have one, then work from home the second".
The day she was born, I emailed by boss at 4 in the morning to tell him I was taking two weeks and he didn't push back.
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All-In [46818]
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Just make sure you run it by me 3 months in advance
Jan 19, 2022, 9:16 AM
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for me to forget about then threaten to fire you when you do take it off because I've forgotten about it.
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It's nice to be treated like an adult
Jan 19, 2022, 9:23 AM
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My boss doesn't really care what I do as long as I get my work done.
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All-In [46818]
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Same here.
Jan 19, 2022, 9:25 AM
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Do your job and get left alone.
If there's an issue, he'll come talk to you about it so it can be resolved. Other than that, I barely see him.
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All-In [40656]
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I have taken <5 sick days since 2013.
Jan 19, 2022, 10:16 AM
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My boss gives me absolute #### when I do call in sick. One of the days, I came into work and spent an hour vomiting in the bathroom. Boss still wasn't okay with me leaving. I also had hand, foot, and mouth last year and my boss said he was fine with me taking one day off, but not two.
Our PTO days do not roll over or get paid out, so I left a week of PTO on the table because my boss told us on December 1 that we were not allowed to take PTO in December if we had not already asked off.
If I wasn't compensated so well, I would be
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Heisman Winner [105529]
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Your boss sounds like a real aspwhole. If'n you want to
Jan 19, 2022, 10:20 AM
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jump ship, I promise I could have you working in our Raleigh office in a month, tops.
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Yeahhh
Jan 19, 2022, 10:55 AM
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I don't really want to get my PE anymore, but I know thats probably a requirement to jump ship.
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All-In [46818]
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I have my PE. It wasn't that bad***
Jan 19, 2022, 10:56 AM
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All-In [40656]
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You TEACH PE
Jan 19, 2022, 10:59 AM
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Way above my pay grade
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Oculus Spirit [81890]
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Dude, sit for it.***
Jan 19, 2022, 11:21 AM
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All-In [40656]
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When I say that my boss has killed my desire to ever get it
Jan 19, 2022, 11:38 AM
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I mean it. I do every single thing he does outside of marketing and being the "face" of the company. His policy is that no one other than him signs plans in this office, so theres not a single motivation in the world to get it. I never want that responsibility. The only motivation to get it is to move laterally at this point.
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Oculus Spirit [81890]
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It'll make you much more marketable, you already have
Jan 19, 2022, 11:40 AM
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most of the knowledge, just sit for it. If your #### employer doesn't give you a bonus or raise for obtaining your PE, it's really time to move on to another firm.
I could also get you hired at my company if you want.
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Oh I know all this
Jan 19, 2022, 11:47 AM
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Not passing round 1 was a kick in the ####. That, combined with #### around the office, and having a kiddo now has really eliminated a lot of my desire I once had for the field.
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Heisman Winner [105529]
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I want out of engineering, but at this point, I would have
Jan 19, 2022, 12:06 PM
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to take a huge paycut and start all over with a different career at 40 years old to make that happen. It aint happening right now. I just suck it up and make chicken salad out of chicken shit. My coworkers are good, but if my supervisor ever left my company, I would follow within 6 months I am almost sure of it. We work well together.
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Heisman Winner [105529]
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I do not think it is a requirement at all but questions
Jan 19, 2022, 11:22 AM
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might come up. I just got axed for my seal this week on a project at the port of morehead city...and I shudder thinking of putting my seal on the plans. They are 30% plans and nothing is going to get built off those, but dang I hate putting that seal on there. I get a little paranoid.
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All-In [46818]
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I need to borrow your seal***
Jan 19, 2022, 11:34 AM
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Re: I need to borrow your seal***
Jan 19, 2022, 11:39 AM
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