Vacation hours

[rhino]

Off till monday

You got em, those vacation hours?

[User]

no vacation for me in the last few months

[rhino]

Dont you get like, 6 months vacation time in austrailia

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

I jammed me some vacation last week

[vO)))id]

Next week I'm off. Then just my birthday later this year.

Had to use the rest of it last April for the move.

[User]

yeah but my life is very much not like a typical australian life

though i thoroughly enjoyed my paid holidays when working in australia

first mabb meet up was because of aust paid hols

[zim]

i think i have like three weeks worth of vacation

[zim]

i have a hard time justifying taking a day off unless i'm actually going out of town or something. i work from home and my job is pretty laid back, i can fuck off in the middle of the day if i want and it's all good

[zim]

it's totally not laid back today though because i am trying to do a months worth of work in a single day

[zim]

but it's still kind of chill

[Noyka]

I do not get paid for time off nor sick time. I work enough hours between the two agencies it works out though.

Luckily the new system we’re switching to will gave sick time and vacation time. I am more concerned about others than myself. I am paid for doing what I do unpaid.

[zim]

what kind of work do you do noyka

[Noyka]

what kind of work do you do noyka

I am a caregiver. Usually i work in multiple houses with elderly dementia clients and disabled clients. With covid families didn't want extra people so I am only with my brother who is severely understaffed. All agencies are understaffed and it affects clients like my brother.

[Mesarthim]

I’ve got like 8 weeks of paid time off saved up. They allocate more the more hours you work and it rolls over each year - so as long as you Don’t max it out each year you can really start to bank quite a lot. One of these days I’ll take like 2 months and go bum around Europe or something.

[jawn galliano]

i have 3 weeks banked still

i got an email from HR hassling me because in violation of company policy, i have not yet taken a full week off this year. so i have to burn some time between now and december, i guess

[Mesarthim]

My old company had a use it or lose it policy so they always hassled people (you also only got two weeks a year). Current employer doesn’t seem to care if you use it or not.

[jawn galliano]

i get 4 weeks, that's in addition to bank holidays, sick and personal time. they only let you carry over 2 weeks, which i pretty much always do. i think i got close to my annual bonus in PTO cashout this year, thanks to the 2 extra weeks of sick time we got when everything blew up last spring

[User]

stormy and lumberg come to thailand and see me before december, it's easy now

[jawn galliano]

flights are surprisingly reasonable cost-wise

cheaper than i paid for the london trip even

[User]

that's correct stormicus, that is correct

[User]

so stormy gotta come to thailand