I am not one of those people who take PTO and just never use it. I take vacations, I use it when the kids are sick. However, for the second year in a row I have completely misjudged how much time I have left.
I thought the system made a mistake and was showing that I had more time left than I really did. Except it didn't, and now with a little less than 2 months of the year left I have 8 1/2 days of PTO left. I can only carry 5 days so I need to take off at least 3 1/2 days. And everyone has already taken their days, so I have to figure out how to take my days without impacting our coverage.
This also means that I'm rolling over 5 days into 2016 and next year I hit 5 years (PTO accrual bump up) and I'm a manager (more days anyways). So I'll have something like 5 weeks to take off, and I have no idea how I'm going to. I have days off semi-planned, but taking more than a week off is tough with my job. To top it off, I'm also going to do the compressed work week which means that every other week I get a 1/2 day so it's not like I can just take random Fridays off to use up that time.
First world problems.