Works got me like....

NowIamMrsKlein · March 2015

My jobs vacation policy is actually pretty great.

We start out with 15 vacation days a year. Plus we can accrue 'Personal Days' at 0.5 days a month.

The personal days are for when you get sick/have appointments etc, however you can accrue them and roll them over to the next year.

So since I didn't have any sick days last year I am starting this year off with 6 days banked on top of my 15 vacation days, and will still earn another 6 days this year.

I purposely tried to stockpile them so that I could use my vacation days for my wedding/honeymoon and personal days for any wedding related trips as we are planning long distance so im going to need to take a long weekend here and there. And you don't need to give any reasoning behind taking a personal day either so you can just tell your boss that you need to 'take a personal day' and voila no questions asked. So basically theyre just extra vacation days if you don't get sick very often.

They fully pay our health insurance and we have a 1500$ per person medical spending account.

We also used to get some great added benefits on top of our regular benefits but they've all been taken away due to the economy. But hopefully they'll come back.

-Company pays 50% of gym membership

-Company pays 50% of any courses or online classes

-Company has scholarships available if you want to go back to school

amelisha · March 2015

TEN DAYS? Is that even legal? That's so brutal.

My job isn't even known for great benefits and I get 15 paid days (it goes up after so many years with the company, up to six weeks), a personal day, time off in lieu OR overtime (my choice), and unlimited sick days (within reason, although I've never heard of anyone abusing them.) I also get full medical/dental/etc benefits, transit passes, health and wellness credit (money to spend on anything related to fitness - this year I bought ski goggles, last year I got a bike and some dance classes) RSP contribution matching, and my company pays extra above the mandated maternity leave percentage too. And we're technically a nonprofit, even.

Ten days sounds like freaking highway robbery to me.

I'm not bragging on my job here or anything, it's just that up here what they give me is a pretty standard package for a salaried job. I can't believe some places offer so little.

jennyleigh16 · March 2015

I work as a maintenance worker for my municipality. Its very blue collar but I don't mind the work. The pay is decent and I just got on full time a couple months ago which comes with benefits and 4 weeks paid vacation. I'm in the competition process right now for a promotion, which hopefully I'll get because it pays more, even though I really love my building and my work crew now and the promotion would add about 30 mins to my commute.

I'm off today but I have to go in to talk to my supervisor and fill out an incident report about a colleague who got into an argument with a couple of our operators, ranted to me about the lack of respect in our facility and then referenced a well-known tragedy in another sector of our municipality where an employee came into work on a shooting rampage and killed a lot of his colleagues several years ago, and how there was no respect in that place before but now there is.

I don't know if I believe he's really capable of doing something like that, but I'm a little worried because if he is, and I've reported him, I'm now first on his list. Scary stuff.

[Deleted User] · March 2015

Recruiter for an insurance/financial services company (recruit for HR and financial services). We get 18 days + 10 paid holidays (moves to 23 days depending on what level you are or if you hit 5 years).

We have a gym on site that's free, pension plan, tuition reimbursement.

I can't complain... we have a pretty flexible work environment for being such a big company.

MadHops21 · March 2015

AlisonM23 said:
Recruiter for an insurance/financial services company (recruit for HR and financial services). We get 18 days + 10 paid holidays (moves to 23 days depending on what level you are or if you hit 5 years).

We have a gym on site that's free, pension plan, tuition reimbursement.

I can't complain... we have a pretty flexible work environment for being such a big company.

I have to use PTO on holidays, like Christmas, if I want it off. And I don't get Christmas Eve off. Or any holiday. I worked New Years Day and Easter and Memorial Day and everything. It sucks not having enough PTO for those days. Half my PTO goes to taking some of those holidays off.

lovemesomemonster · March 2015

My FI only gets 10 days and 7 months out of the year he works in a different state from where we live. The drive to get home is 12hrs and flights are ridiculous (not to mention nothing direct so it takes all day anyways)! If he wants to come home at all when he's out there working it's a whole day of vacation pay just to get here and two if he actually wants an entire weekend at home.. sucks but he deals I guess.. at lest for him the pay is good even if his vacation time sucks.. mine is the opposite, OK pay but awesome vaca.

@MadHops21 that sucks that you don't get holidays off, must really drain the vacation account if you have to use it for those!

MadHops21 · March 2015

lovemesomemonster said:
My FI only gets 10 days and 7 months out of the year he works in a different state from where we live. The drive to get home is 12hrs and flights are ridiculous (not to mention nothing direct so it takes all day anyways)! If he wants to come home at all when he's out there working it's a whole day of vacation pay just to get here and two if he actually wants an entire weekend at home.. sucks but he deals I guess.. at lest for him the pay is good even if his vacation time sucks.. mine is the opposite, OK pay but awesome vaca.

@MadHops21 that sucks that you don't get holidays off, must really drain the vacation account if you have to use it for those!

It really does. It's hard to plan a vacation, vendor meets for the wedding, and then make sure I have enough hours for a holiday. HR and Payroll gets mad if you don't have 40 hours clocked on time cards, and I'm hourly.

Your FI sounds like a champ for all that traveling! Glad to hear it's working for you guys though, I can't imagine having a job like that and not seeing your FI for so long if he doesn't have enough vacation. Do you plan on moving to make it easier or anything?

mikenberger · March 2015

I would punt... something cute and cuddly or something... for PTO, sick or any sort of paid leave. I'm currently contracted with a company and that results in that I only get paid for what I work. I'm currently trying to not freak out about being gone 12.5 days for the wedding and honeymoon. It'll be worth it though

MadHops21 · March 2015

mikenberger said:
I would punt... something cute and cuddly or something... for PTO, sick or any sort of paid leave. I'm currently contracted with a company and that results in that I only get paid for what I work. I'm currently trying to not freak out about being gone 12.5 days for the wedding and honeymoon. It'll be worth it though

Go

amelisha · March 2015

And now I have a work complaint.

We have this thing with an airline where we prepay for 30 "credits" good for one-way flights between our city and the east coast for a given number of employees. It's been explained to those employees many times and very clearly.

One of them just used the credits for a 1-hour commuter flight worth like $200 although we have expressly explained that the credits are only for the cross-country (and four times as expensive) flights, and only to use it for that kind of travel.

So now I look like a jerk because I have to tell this much more senior person "Um, you can't use that like that. Cancel it and rebook it like a normal flight, please." Seriously, why is this concept so hard to grasp? If you are flying to Toronto, you use the credits, if you're flying ANYWHERE ELSE, you don't. Sigh.

twoleighs · March 2015

I do internal database and web development for a distillery.

I'm a consultant right now so I don't have vacation, but I'm hoping to get hired on full time soon. Then I'll have 3 weeks of vacation or something.

Luckily I don't get called into meetings very often, and when I do, they're useful and beneficial.

I used to work in payroll. Meetings for no other purpose than to have a meeting. Oy.

lovemesomemonster · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
My FI only gets 10 days and 7 months out of the year he works in a different state from where we live. The drive to get home is 12hrs and flights are ridiculous (not to mention nothing direct so it takes all day anyways)! If he wants to come home at all when he's out there working it's a whole day of vacation pay just to get here and two if he actually wants an entire weekend at home.. sucks but he deals I guess.. at lest for him the pay is good even if his vacation time sucks.. mine is the opposite, OK pay but awesome vaca.

@MadHops21 that sucks that you don't get holidays off, must really drain the vacation account if you have to use it for those!
It really does. It's hard to plan a vacation, vendor meets for the wedding, and then make sure I have enough hours for a holiday. HR and Payroll gets mad if you don't have 40 hours clocked on time cards, and I'm hourly.

Your FI sounds like a champ for all that traveling! Glad to hear it's working for you guys though, I can't imagine having a job like that and not seeing your FI for so long if he doesn't have enough vacation. Do you plan on moving to make it easier or anything?

He is a trooper and working hard for our future so I am VERY proud of him! We have been doing distance at least 3 months out of the year for 6 years so this is nothing new for us. I will NOT be moving to where he works when he's gone.. First reason: He gets paid per diem when he's there, if we moved and he got hired to that division we lose out on that money (which is non taxable so it's awesome).. Second reason: He's in Williston ND, no offence to anyone who lives and/or likes it there.. but it's overrun with oil workers and construction right now, housing is super expensive, and he lives in his camp trailer. We will probably do this for another couple of years, buy a couple more investment properties, and then settle in together in one state.

porkchops926 · March 2015

Yeah, 10 days is brutal. I could live with it if it was vacation time only, because that's standard to start, but for everything included it's nuts. Plus we get horrible benefits that just got more expensive and are expected to 'volunteer' to work at trade shows on weekends for no extra pay because we're all "salaried".

I understand what salary means, but when my salary is about equal to a manager at Starbucks then I'm not going to volunteer at any fucking trade shows 2 hours away on a Saturday. I will die (or get fired) on that hill.

[Deleted User] · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

AlisonM23 said:
Recruiter for an insurance/financial services company (recruit for HR and financial services). We get 18 days + 10 paid holidays (moves to 23 days depending on what level you are or if you hit 5 years).

We have a gym on site that's free, pension plan, tuition reimbursement.

I can't complain... we have a pretty flexible work environment for being such a big company.
I have to use PTO on holidays, like Christmas, if I want it off. And I don't get Christmas Eve off. Or any holiday. I worked New Years Day and Easter and Memorial Day and everything. It sucks not having enough PTO for those days. Half my PTO goes to taking some of those holidays off.

@MadHops21 Ugh that blows!

We get two days around Christmas and Thanksgiving.

julieanne912 · March 2015

lovemesomemonster said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
My FI only gets 10 days and 7 months out of the year he works in a different state from where we live. The drive to get home is 12hrs and flights are ridiculous (not to mention nothing direct so it takes all day anyways)! If he wants to come home at all when he's out there working it's a whole day of vacation pay just to get here and two if he actually wants an entire weekend at home.. sucks but he deals I guess.. at lest for him the pay is good even if his vacation time sucks.. mine is the opposite, OK pay but awesome vaca.

@MadHops21 that sucks that you don't get holidays off, must really drain the vacation account if you have to use it for those!
It really does. It's hard to plan a vacation, vendor meets for the wedding, and then make sure I have enough hours for a holiday. HR and Payroll gets mad if you don't have 40 hours clocked on time cards, and I'm hourly.

Your FI sounds like a champ for all that traveling! Glad to hear it's working for you guys though, I can't imagine having a job like that and not seeing your FI for so long if he doesn't have enough vacation. Do you plan on moving to make it easier or anything?
He is a trooper and working hard for our future so I am VERY proud of him! We have been doing distance at least 3 months out of the year for 6 years so this is nothing new for us. I will NOT be moving to where he works when he's gone.. First reason: He gets paid per diem when he's there, if we moved and he got hired to that division we lose out on that money (which is non taxable so it's awesome).. Second reason: He's in Williston ND, no offence to anyone who lives and/or likes it there.. but it's overrun with oil workers and construction right now, housing is super expensive, and he lives in his camp trailer. We will probably do this for another couple of years, buy a couple more investment properties, and then settle in together in one state.

I was going to ask if he works in the oil field... where I live in Colorado, oil/natural gas is big so some of our friends have similar set ups. It's a huge sacrifice but man does it pay well!

hellosweetie1015 · March 2015

I'm with @mikenberger - I'd punt a cuddly animal for paid leave. I work with a lawyer and he is a fantastic boss, but he doesn't offer me any PTO, paid holidays, or sick leave. ...or any other benefits.

I need to renegotiate, I guess.

lovemesomemonster · March 2015

julieanne912 said:

lovemesomemonster said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
My FI only gets 10 days and 7 months out of the year he works in a different state from where we live. The drive to get home is 12hrs and flights are ridiculous (not to mention nothing direct so it takes all day anyways)! If he wants to come home at all when he's out there working it's a whole day of vacation pay just to get here and two if he actually wants an entire weekend at home.. sucks but he deals I guess.. at lest for him the pay is good even if his vacation time sucks.. mine is the opposite, OK pay but awesome vaca.

@MadHops21 that sucks that you don't get holidays off, must really drain the vacation account if you have to use it for those!
It really does. It's hard to plan a vacation, vendor meets for the wedding, and then make sure I have enough hours for a holiday. HR and Payroll gets mad if you don't have 40 hours clocked on time cards, and I'm hourly.

Your FI sounds like a champ for all that traveling! Glad to hear it's working for you guys though, I can't imagine having a job like that and not seeing your FI for so long if he doesn't have enough vacation. Do you plan on moving to make it easier or anything?
He is a trooper and working hard for our future so I am VERY proud of him! We have been doing distance at least 3 months out of the year for 6 years so this is nothing new for us. I will NOT be moving to where he works when he's gone.. First reason: He gets paid per diem when he's there, if we moved and he got hired to that division we lose out on that money (which is non taxable so it's awesome).. Second reason: He's in Williston ND, no offence to anyone who lives and/or likes it there.. but it's overrun with oil workers and construction right now, housing is super expensive, and he lives in his camp trailer. We will probably do this for another couple of years, buy a couple more investment properties, and then settle in together in one state.
I was going to ask if he works in the oil field... where I live in Colorado, oil/natural gas is big so some of our friends have similar set ups. It's a huge sacrifice but man does it pay well!

Yes, the oil has created the need for him over there but he's actually in construction management. They are doing a TON of work on the city because it grew so fast and the bonus is that even when the oil slows down the city has the budgets in place for the next couple of years so construction will continue and he can keep making the money. It's a lot of work and sacrifice but while we are young with no kids it just makes sense to bank it while we can!

flyingfoxes · March 2015

I work for a large global reinsurance company. The company is amazing, but my work is so freaking dull. The main selling point is that they give a 12% contribution to your 401k. So I put in 10% (I think you really only have to do 6% to get their full match), and they do 12%, so I have 22% going into my retirement account.

We get most holidays (not veterans day or Columbus day), and start out with 15 days vacation and 3 personal days. It's not enough - I'm so bored and burned out here...but I am going to be leaving this summer. If I managed to stay until 10 years (5 years from now) I would get another 5 days of vacation.

I'm actually shocked that they gave me a small raise this year. My motivation has been low for at least a year now. It's time to let somebody else have this job that can show some interest in the work.

WinstonsGirl · March 2015

I'm pretty lucky with holidays and sick days. I get about 3 months off total, though I also don't get paid for vacation time (I'm on a 10 month contract). We also get 90 sick days per year. But if I need to take a day off outside of regular vacation time I have to pay for my sub (about $300 per day). After 2 of those days, I also lose my pay, so I'm out $600 for each day plus I lose my pension.

I'd love to be able to take some holidays whenever, like cheap last minute trips in Jan, but that ain't gonna happen till I retire. And who wants to go to Mexico in August.

lovesclimbing · March 2015

I'm a reporter for a newspaper. I loved my job at first, now I'm pretty burned out. It's a small newspaper so I'm responsible for a lot of things and I feel like more and more is constantly being piled on me (which is true, not just my imagination). I'm seriously considering applying for another job because it's in PR, which I've always wanted to get into. But I also really would like to give this job a full year, and I'm only at 9 months right now. This other job would pay quite a bit more and it has much better benefits. However, I don't have enough experience, but I'm thinking about applying just to see what happens. I have a friend who works for the same company who said she didn't have nearly the experience level they wanted, but she still got it.

porkchops926 · March 2015

@lovesclimbing you should totally apply. Most times job descriptions ask for more than they actually want or need for a position just trying to see if that "ideal person" exists, but they never do. I guarantee what they'll care about most is your enthusiasm and willingness to grow into the position if you don't have all the qualifications. Go for it, what do you have to lose?

MadHops21 · March 2015

porkchops926. I was always told by hiring managers that they put that down, but don't expect someone to meet all requirements. If you have the skills and good attitude, you can get it, even if you're short on experience or none at all. I've applied to jobs for 5+ years experience and got the job, even if I had half a year.

mikenberger · March 2015

lovesclimbing said:
I'm a reporter for a newspaper. I loved my job at first, now I'm pretty burned out. It's a small newspaper so I'm responsible for a lot of things and I feel like more and more is constantly being piled on me (which is true, not just my imagination). I'm seriously considering applying for another job because it's in PR, which I've always wanted to get into. But I also really would like to give this job a full year, and I'm only at 9 months right now. This other job would pay quite a bit more and it has much better benefits. However, I don't have enough experience, but I'm thinking about applying just to see what happens. I have a friend who works for the same company who said she didn't have nearly the experience level they wanted, but she still got it.

What's the worst they're going to do? Not call you for an interview? Ohhhh boy, scary

Go for it!

Chipmunk415 · March 2015

State government employee here. I do not get overtime pay due to my position classification.

However I do get generous paid leave- 4.2 weeks vacation time each year and 2.6 of sick leave. Leave renews on the anniversary of hire and unused leave rolls over. I can roll over 480 hours of vacation time per year but anything above that goes into my sick leave bank. With all the leave im saving when dh and I have a child ill be able to use sick leave for my 3 month maternity leave and get paid the whole time.

I also get one paid personal holiday per year that must be used before july 1st. We get major holidays (christmas and new years day, 4th of july, veteran s day, memorial day, labor day off if it falls during the work week, plus black Friday).

Health and dental insurance for dh and I cost about 65 per month out of my paycheck. We got rid of the vision insurance now that weve both had lasik surgery. Theres also an automatic 20k life insurance policy on me that the state pays for without contribution from me. 3 percent of my annual salary is automatically put into my state run retirement account which the state matches.

If I went to a physical state school, state would waive/reimburse up to 5,250 per year in tuition costs plus id be allowed to take administrative time off to attend class.

The pay isnt great but the bennies are!

MadHops21 · March 2015

Chipmunk415 It seems like a trend, you either get great pay but sucky benefit, or less pay but better benefits. Or just bad both. Or great both. Can I get great both?

JCbride2015 · March 2015

@lovesclimbing You should totally apply. You've got nothing to lose and there are lots of studies that show hiring managers don't expect you to have 100% qualifications; men are more likely than women to apply when they don't meet all the qualifications, not surprisingly, and often still get hired. Go for it!

I'm a little late to this thread because works got me like KAJSDNABVAKJSNV;AHEFLLJBD this week. I'm a baby lawyer at a big fancypants law firm. They own me. But I knew that when I took the job so I can't complain too much. The work is interesting and the pay and benefits are great. I just forget what my Fi looks like sometimes.

lovesclimbing · March 2015

Thanks for the encouragement, @JCbride2015, @mikenberger, @porkchops926 and @MadHops21.

I know all that about men apply for jobs where they don't have the qualifications more and people get jobs without all the requirements, and I really should apply.

More of the reasons I'm hesitating is because the job I'm at is my first full-time job in my field post-college. So they can't call my employer or my previous employer because, obviously, I don't want my current employer to know I'm looking for another job. As for my previous employer (for whom I worked a part-time position in my field during college), that company owns the company I currently work for and the two communicate a lot, so I don't want the company I'm looking at calling them either. So basically, this company I might apply for can only call my pre-college employers (none in my field), my summer-work employers (none in my field), and my single student job in college that is in my field. And the field I'm applying for is not the same as the field I'm wanting to go into, although there is some similarities and many people in journalism do cross over into PR.

So basically, I think my resume, references and all that is going to look really bad. Plus, I'm learning that the current job I have, I'm not really cut out for, so I'm worried that will happen with the next job too. Plus, it's not like I have half the requirements. I have maybe 1/4 of the requirements, if that. (depending on how I manipulate what I do currently.)

H is encouraging me to apply and so is everyone I know (that I've told, which is exactly two people besides H). And I have my friend who works for the company (in a completely different sector, so she has no control of the hiring process and is in a completely different field) who said I could put her name down as the person who told me about the position. And I know she's well liked at the company and does great work for them, so much so, they want to move her to a higher position after just a couple months there.

And then there is my feelings of obligation to my current company, which I know I shouldn't have, but I do. It would be nice if I could stay here for at least a year. Also, leaving them would kind of leave them in a lurch. They have a hard time getting people and it's a very transient job. They've been trying to get someone else in a similar position to mine for a good six months.

mrsk616 · March 2015

stefuhknee said:
Everyday is a huge headache for me especially days where the weather is crappy like today. I am an intermodal dispatcher so I am responsible for dispatching my drivers to pick up, deliver and return import/export shipments at the port of NY/NJ. I also have to deal with all the correspondence from our clients which is often angry rants about how they should have received their freight yesterday even though it just arrived. My drivers are so unreliable so between them and the customers my head is already pounding. Thank God tomorrow is Friday. I am also spending half of my work day applying to new jobs because yeah I hate this.

My FI is a truck driver in ohio. He had 12 loads yesterday where more than half got canceled due to weather in Virginia. And his dispatcher is also the Terminal Manager. can you just imagine the shit this guy has to deal with on top of the rants from clients.

id actually like to get into that field but not at the same company as my FI.

mrsk616 · March 2015

MadHops21 said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one in meetings thinking "why am I here?". I work for a tech company as a business process analyst. I used to do customer sales operations then after 4 months of international travel to help the global teams they created this job to keep the collaboration going between all of our sites. At the moment pulling my hair out sounds nice, they dumped one of my old accounts on me on top of projects to update all of the training, create a newsletter to be sent monthly, and rebuild all of our websites under sales operations because we are upgrading the system. I shouldn't complain, I work from home, have FANTASTIC vacation time, and great benefits.. but I'm just really not into technology.

Can I have your job? My benefits are awful. To have a kid, after insurance, costs +8k a child. And I get 6 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. I get 1 full day of PTO every month. Help.

to the bolded WHAT?!?! i was excited that when i went with the company im at now that i got 40 hrs pto after a year. 16 hrs sick days right away and my birthday paid off. do reviews of places which honestly i did not but i work at one of the top 10 companies in my area.

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