The “best” job I ever had?
Our PTO and sick days were in the same pool.
PTO and sick days were in the same pool of hours. So if you were out sick one day, you now had one day less vacation that you could take.
If you were out sick for a week? That’s a week’s vacation time that you just lost.
Being sick in bed or curled around your toilet or shivering with fever was considered EQUAL to vacation time…. Simply because you weren’t at work.
Another thing a lot of Americans companies will do is advertise that the job gives two or three weeks of PTO yearly… and not tell you until you take the job that it’s on an “accrual basis”.
Which means that you have to “earn” the time off. 2 weeks of PTO is 80 hours… with Accrued PTO, what that means is that on your first day of work? You are entitled to 0 hours of vacation. And every two weeks, you “earn” roughly 3.07 hours. You have to work over a month just to “earn” a single day off.
It takes the entire calendar year to “earn” your two weeks of PTO, and by then, you can’t use it. And most companies will not let you keep your banked PTO from one year to the next.
Now, some companies will let you use “unearned” PTO… but they have the caveat that if you do that, and then leave the company before you’ve earned it all back, then they can take your equivalent wages for those hours out of your last paycheck.
Most of the Americans who think these systems are great, genuinely don’t know any better. Because they’ve never lived in a country that gave them anything else. Most Americans have never experienced a different system, and are simultaneously being fed a constant stream of propaganda about how the US is the best country in the world, and we’re the free-est country in the world, and 638 other bullshit lies.
Most Americans don’t know how bad we have it, and we’re never allowed to go to other countries and see for ourselves how draconian our systems really are.
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