On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Martin Klingensmith wrote:

> Survey:
> 1. How long have you been working where you are working?

3 years going on 4 this time around.  I was previously with the  =

organization which has been purchased four times since I first worked  =

for them in 1991.  When I came back

> 2. How many days of paid vacation time do you get?

See table below.  :-)  Plus 12 paid holidays per year.  All the  =

holidays most U.S. companies observe (by law or not) and an additional  =

"Holiday Shutdown" during the week of Christmas.

For a U.S. company, it's very good.  It doesn't hold a candle to my  =

friend in Australia working for HP, however.

Table:

Yrs of Service	Days of PTO
0 =96 1		15			=

1 =96 2 		16			=

2 =96 3		17			=

3 =96 4		18			=

4 =96 5		19			=

5 =96 6		20		=

6 =96 7		21
7 =96 8		22
8 =96 9		23
9 =96 10		24
10 + 		25

> 3. If you still "earn" vacation time, what is the theoretical maximum?

There's a very high "cap" but the company has been reevaluating this,  =

too many people are "hoarding" PTO time and not taking it, and they're  =

starting to force people to take "mandatory" PTO, starting with some  =

days around Thanksgiving week this year.

If you're needed for a business-continuity purpose (mostly direct  =

customer support or sales positions - engineering will be away,  =

mostly), you can work during that week with manager's approval, but  =

you'll be required to take that day off sometime before the end of the  =

year.

They're doing this because too many people are "hoarding" their PTO  =

time, which is becoming a large line item on the overall budget, I  =

think.  So we all had to take 5 additional "mandatory" days off  =

between now and New Year's Eve, company-wide to make it "fair".  I  =

think it would have been simpler to just tell us we had to take X  =

number of days and let us pick the days... but whatever.  I'll be  =

working during part of the "mandatory" shut-down, since I already have  =

customer projects and also help cover the support phones...

So I guess I'll take more time off toward Christmas or something. Not  =

sure yet.  Since we already have that week generally off, I guess  =

not.  Maybe an extra day before New Years to start celebrating  =

early?  :-)  Still need to look at a calendar and figure that one out.

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com




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