Memorial Day Weekend Open Thread > Vacation, vacation, vacation...

Vacation, vacation, vacation...

Probably government.

It could be a person who worked a lot of overtime, holidays, or took over when others were out. Instead of getting money, you get added hours of time off. He could have been part of a contract where you work almost nonstop for 11 months. Then there is the ability to reward some of the workers with extra time off. Private industry does have the ability to create nice extra benefits when economically possible. 90% of them probably do not, but there are some differently thinking ones.

Just my own personal experience, 20+ years @ govt. agency--8 weeks of leave each year. Taking a month at a time was not typical, but not unheard of--as long as you had coverage it was OK.

reply to Linklist
I am in hospitality... since we are 24/7/365 we dont get the typical holidays off so we have a PTO system... after 5 years I get 28 days... which if I really wanted would mean I can be out of the office for almost 6 weeks... but then I would be ready to scream 2 weeks after I get back... so i split and take 2 vacations of 2 weeks each and save the rests for "I cant stand this place this week" moments works out really good
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Yep, Mental Health days are the best.

reply to GlennAllen
You are correct. I work for the state government. In my case, I accumulate vacation time in hours with a maximum limit. I had over 250 hours of vacation so I took the opportunity to go to Puerto Rico to visit family I haven't seen in over 20 years and to get my birth certificate. My immediate family in Florida is to see one of my nieces graduate from high school. I missed my other niece graduate from the community college. And no, I didn't get comp time instead of OT. With the way the state is going, OT is a pretty premium only offered in extreme cases of necessity.

EDIT: (forgot to add) And yes, I do have a back up.
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reply to GlennAllen
I use sick time for that which is rare .

reply to GlennAllen

Vacation, vacation, vacation, vacation, vacation, Broke.

The leave policies were generally better because the salaries were lower than you could get for similar jobs in the private sector. Over the years, though, they've tried to improve the salaries, but at the same time they've reduced the leave. Those hired before a certain date had a somewhat better policy applied, but still not quite as good as "the old days" (if you ask me), which is fair I guess since the total compensation (formula for leave + salary) stayed about the same. For some agencies it's all PTO now--no annual/sick/comp (though some positions can still get comp for special situations); overtime is even more rare. Occasionally, there's even this thing called a "bonus" (always related specifically to some project); usually it's just a bigger plate of chocolate chip cookies. (Fiscal problems due to bad upper-level management is a separate issue.)