Comp/personal/sick time?
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| Fri, 07-25-2003 - 11:35am |
In my current job, we are allowed 5 hours per week (paid) for Dr.'s appointments, childrens emergencies, or personal reasons. This doesn't accumulate, so you can't *not* use it, and bam, take a week off. But it's there if we need it, and my particular clinic doesn't take advantage of the time.
We also earn comp. time for working holidays, and one personal and one sick day per month.
I had to take off yesterday to pick dd up from basketball camp, and had put in for it to be unpaid. Payroll called, I had comp time. Did I want to use it?
My original intentions for working holidays are to accumulate the time for emergencies during the school year. So, I chose instead to use a personal day. To me, the comp time is much more valuable than OT. :O) Selfishly also, I don't mind working most Holidays. No one else is, and it's usually, a fluff day. I'd much rather take a day off during the week if needed.
Just as a general idea, how do you utilize your comp time? Yourself? Family emergencies? Sick kids? Vacations? Or, do you take the check at the end of the year?
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The nice thing about my job is because I'm in a "management" position I can call in late, I can work from home one day, I can take off if I really need to in the middle of the day and everyone is very understanding.... I don't lose any of my sick or vacation time for situations like that. All my OB appointments are a block away from my office so I tell the receptionist "I'll be back in an hour" No problem! But I make sure I never abuse this privilege and I'm usually here at my desk ALL day, even during my lunch hour.
Right now, I'm accumulating all my vacation time for my maternity leave. DH's job is very flexible and his boss is very cool about dr's appointments also. He's taken DD to the Dr. for her past 2 appointments because I had big projects at work that I'm trying to complete before I go into labor.
So far, I have about 5 weeks accumulated time for my maternity leave.
I have accumulated a lot of overtime (I think about 40 hours worth by now) and I really like having this as it gives me a lot more flexibility if I have to leave early for some reason or another.
Laura
That said, I've been here 10 yrs., and my job requires that I stay on projects and keep them moving 24/7, so I can pop out for a Dr. appt almost any time I need to, or leave a bit early on occasion if DS needs me. I can use my sick days for family illness. These days, I'm salaried part-time on a 32-hr. workweek, and I don't accumulate sick leave any more, so I'm pretty careful to try to schedule appointments on my off day. I do still accumulate vacation time, but I usually only use it for trips out of town that will last at least 5 days. If I only need a day, I just shift my off-day to that day in a particular week.
I don't get other days off for doctor's appointments and so far, I don't have any comp time. If I work holidays or weekends, they just pay me extra for it. I can't choose to take comp time instead.
I haven't used any sick leave because I'm saving it for maternity leave (hopefully).
I've used vacation time to go to the doctor's, to take my dd to her doctor's appointmets, if my nanny needed time off, when my dad needed surgery and I needed to help him, for me to get my haircut, etc.
Actually, one of my new responsibilities at work later this year will involve my working some evenings and they tell me that those extra hours may = comp time for me. I haven't decided exactly what I would do with that time, but I probably would end up using it as I earn it for things (above) that I have been using vacation days for.
DH does get personal plus vacation days. If he needs an entire day off then he uses a personal day (or vacation if he has days that won't get used) but if he only needs a couple of hours off (doctor appointment etc) then he will sometimes take it as unpaid if he will still get over 40 hours in but if taking the time off will put him below 40 hours then he will uses personal hours for it.
At my last firm, we also had billables, but they were tracked quarterly. You had to bill at least 535 hours per quarter. As long as you billed, no cared cared what hours you actually showed up to work. (They issue laptops and blackberries so you are always in touch.)
Now before you think "wow, 175 is so easy," keep in mind this is a billable hour, not an hour worked. you can easily work 10 hours and only bill 8 of them.
Anyway, this is roughly how it works for timekeepers at every lawfirm I know.
DH's monthly minimum is 178, their increment is .1 minimum. He's a bit behind today, because he spent 9 hrs. yesterday driving r/t to a deposition that got canceled at the last possible minute.
Your dh still got to bill for the depo though, didn't he? That would pi$$ me off if I did the 9 hour drive and lost the day. (and I've had that happen--drive there to find out it was changed and have to drive back, but I still bill it, because were it not for that client, i sure as hell wouldn't have driven into nowhere, TX.)
I really wish we had vacation days built in. I always just have to work 12 hours days for two weeks if I want a couple of vacation days somewhere.
Our company was sold to a defense contracting company in the late 90s. For three years they didn't make any changes to our benefits or days off. However, after that 3 years was over, the sh!! hit the fan. I now have a total of 24 days that I can take off for vacation *and* sick time (we're not talking extended disability - just regular old sick days). You can't get more than 24 no matter how many years service you have. I was looking forward to getting an extra 5 days in my 25th year and was looking forward to having 32 days total. That's all gone down the old poop shoot. No comp time. Ever.
This is one of the few gripes I have about my employer.
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