Unlimited Vacation

[kaizen]

Just ranting a bit. How many work for a company that touts unlimited vacation as a "great" company perk? I've found it means, I'm allowed to take vacation...maybe... if no one at the company has any need of me what so ever. In five years of employment, I've taken one week off....during covid. I've been forced to cancel and eat the cost of an overnight tuna trip that had been on my calendar and approved by for four months. I was just forced to cancel my June 13th snapper trip which was approved since January. Now they are trying schedule over my trips later in the month.

[txbowman12]

Unlimited vacation does two things for a company:

1. Allows them to jerk you around like the above
2. They don't have to pay out PTO in states that usually require it, as there is no way to calculate the amount due.

It's not designed to benefit you the employee.

[cj7zrcool]

They've granted you pre-scheduled vacation time and then they're rescinding it?

[Mayhem]

Perhaps they don’t understand the meaning of unlimited??

Some times you just have to be sick.


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[IowaHunter]

I fall under that umbrella. Just takes the funding liability off the employer at the start of the year. Also, they can drop you and not owe you any vacation money. I think it’s pure BS and make sure I take time off no matter what.

[doublearrow]

PTO=Prepare The Others......because I'm not gonna be here.

[Graysonhogs]

Doesn't sound like anywhere I'd want to be. You have to cancel approved time off AND eat the cost? That's bs.

[Landrover]

Sounds like you are a very important cog in the wheel. Guess that's not a horrible place to be in the big scheme.[emoji848]

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[Graysonhogs]

Sounds like you are a very important cog in the wheel. Guess that's not a horrible place to be in the big scheme.[emoji848]

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Guess that's one way to look at it. That or ownership is woefully incompetent on training people and they ride the good workers into the ground. I have seen that as well. Hopefully compensation reflects his importance. Yet the "important cog" has to eat the cost of trips that have been preapproved?

[Landrover]

Guess that's one way to look at it. That or ownership is woefully incompetent on training people and they ride the good workers into the ground. I have seen that as well. Hopefully compensation reflects his importance.

Bingeaux!!! [emoji6] I always lean towards the positive side of things.

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[lanceodom]

Sounds like you are a very important cog in the wheel. Guess that's not a horrible place to be in the big scheme.[emoji848]

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Kind of what I was thinking. One week in five years sounds like you need to set a vacation schedule and stick to it.

[jaime1982]

Kind of what I was thinking. One week in five years sounds like you need to set a vacation schedule and stick to it.

Unless was self-employed there is NO way in heck im only taking 1 week in 5 years of personal time. None

[MadHatter]

Dang, I would think somebody on the upper end didn't like me?
If you're that important, answers, explanations and compensation would be heavily discussed first thing that morning before I ever set down to work, or it would be my last day.
A precedent should have been set the first time it happened.
Seems to me if you were that important to them you wouldn't be asking these questions, nor would you be getting jacked around.
Being an important cog that they could care less about, is about the most horrible place you could possibly find yourself in the grand scheme of things.
Some things money can't make up for.

[bow newby]

Fortunately my employer offers unlimited vacation time and they honor it. I’ve never been denied time off and I take probably 5-6 weeks a year. Been with them 8 years and do not plan on leaving.

[Chief Big Toe]

@ my Place of Employment, I get 200 hrs a year, to be taken when I want.... but... If I have a BIG Audit scheduled, I ain't going no were, or other Issues that require me to be on site, the down side to being the only one that does my job.. two sided coin I guess.. but a week in 5 years,,, i don't think so babbaloo