Does anyone else have to badge out at work?

[Del.]

I never worked January 8 because that's Elvis's birthday.

[gcode]

We get paid out in full if we cash our vacation out

My employer pays out the full cash value of the vacation time.. which adds a big chunk to my regular check
and it gets taxed like I make that much every payday... so the taxes are brutal

[kccadcam]

All being driven by CMMC:
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[ghuns]

My employer pays out the full cash value of the vacation time.. which adds a big chunk to my regular check
and it gets taxed like I make that much every payday... so the taxes are brutal

We get our vacation paid out in full every year on our anniversary date.

Our office lady always changes our withholding on the vaca check to take out only the minimum that's required.

[gcode]

I can honestly say that I haven't missed work for even a moment 

how can you miss something you've never known??   

[Jim at Gentex]

Curious, at what age are you bailing out Jim?

I'm going at 63 1/2.

I picked March 4th because that is the date I started here, which will be 34 years in 2025. 

[RobertELee]

My employer pays out the full cash value of the vacation time.. which adds a big chunk to my regular check
and it gets taxed like I make that much every payday... so the taxes are brutal

Thankfully that averages out and reduces your tax liability at tax time so it mostly just lowers whatever you may have had to pay in. But it does feel like a swift kick in the nads when you see it.

[CNCAppsJames]

and here I am trying to decide when to take the final day I have without carrying more than our allotment...

If we don't use it, we lost it.

Maybe next Friday and I'll bail a day earlier than planned, then I'll be out til Jan 2, 2025

We can bank 40 hours. The unused vacation gets paid out at the end of the year.

I get 5 weeks of vacation per year. When Inwas a Scoutmaster I had no trouble using it all. Now It's a little harder. But vacation is important. 

[mowens]

I've never had to worry about excess vacation time.

[gcode]

Our vacation accrual is based on length of employment
I get 6.16 hours of vacation per week
We cannot go into the new year with more than 80 hours on the books
so we cash out the excess the first pay period in December.
I typically cash out between 90 and 120 hours

 

[Smit]

The place I used to work required a badge to get into the building and into other divisions of the company you needed access to. The time clocks for hourly workers used fingerprints.

I was able to accumulate 240 hours of PTO, after that it vanished like a fart in the wind. Which never happened to me at all. I had a spread sheet that tracked it meticulously and I always used it before I lost it.

Of course it was never really a problem until Covid hit and I wasn't able to go on vacations the way I used to.

Used to be we could sell PTO back for full value but they cancelled that policy. I would have sold back a week of my 7 weeks a year to go on a nice vacation if I could have.

I thought adjusting to not working might be tough but I was wrong. It was really very easy.

And while I miss the people I worked with I don't miss going in every day. And I certainly don't miss the new management they brought in the last couple years I was there. They sucked balls and not in a good way. 

[ghuns]

...I thought adjusting to not working might be tough but I was wrong. It was really very easy. ...

If you need a part time gig, maybe you can dogsit for my kid. I brought his mutt home from KC right after we saw you and we're keeping him until after Christmas.

Seriously, you'll hardly notice he's there.

[Smit]

If you need a part time gig, maybe you can dogsit for my kid. I brought his mutt home from KC right after we saw you and we're keeping him until after Christmas.

Seriously, you'll hardly notice he's there.

I'm sure the pooch and I would get along just fine. It appears we like to do the same things.

[beej]

Used to be we could sell PTO back for full value but they cancelled that policy. I would have sold back a week of my 7 weeks a year to go on a nice vacation if I could have.

that is a SWEET perk!

I've never worked any where that had PTO.

Always have to use vacation time if I'm out sick. Although Missouri just voted in mandatory PTO for most employers, in the last election. still waiting to see how it shakes out here, the wording on the bill was a little vague.

[neurosis]

We can bank 40 hours. The unused vacation gets paid out at the end of the year.

I have 485 hours of vacation in the bank right now. 

lol.

ugh.