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How many weeks of vacation do you receive a year?
- Thread starter ry-dog
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Professor, so technically none but actually a lot. By that I mean we get no paid vacation days, but have very flexible schedules.
My university is closed for a week in the fall and spring semesters and two weeks or so around Xmas to New Years. We're on nine-month contracts so don't have to come in all summer unless teaching (optional for extra pay) or in an administrative role or grant with summer pay. Of course I and most my colleagues come in a ton year round as we enjoy our research work and do a lot of catching up while classes aren't in session. But it's great being able to go away pretty much whenever over those periods. During the semesters I can still mostly do whatever outside of class time and meetings. It's just a super flexible job and people general don't care what you do as long as you're productive.
My university is closed for a week in the fall and spring semesters and two weeks or so around Xmas to New Years. We're on nine-month contracts so don't have to come in all summer unless teaching (optional for extra pay) or in an administrative role or grant with summer pay. Of course I and most my colleagues come in a ton year round as we enjoy our research work and do a lot of catching up while classes aren't in session. But it's great being able to go away pretty much whenever over those periods. During the semesters I can still mostly do whatever outside of class time and meetings. It's just a super flexible job and people general don't care what you do as long as you're productive.
Same for me...well before i retired. You forgot you have a separate bin of days for sick leave which I recall is 13 days a year beyond the annual leave. Sick you can accrue as much as you can earn. Most of these numbers you are seeing here for PTO includes sick leave.
27 days of all-purpose PTO a year, plus bank holidays and some ancillary stuff like an additional two weeks every two years that can be used to care for family members.
American here... I currently accrue close to 3 weeks of paid vacation every year. I also enjoy another 2 weeks of paid personal necessity days, and another 3 weeks worth of paid federal holidays. I'm also sitting on roughly 8 weeks of paid sick days that can be credited toward time served/retirement. I consider myself pretty fortunate in this department.
Correct. 4 hours of sick per pay period for a total of 13 days per year.
Probably off 4-5 months a year. I'm self employed and have to make all my money in the summer and fall when there is hail damage to fix. It's a pretty good life but it's high risk/high reward.
Taiwan - 10 public holidays (but we have to make them up on the Saturday before they occur), 3 weeks off for Chinese New Year, ~6 weeks off for school summer break (but I work for two of those weeks doing summer camp). Only 3 personal days to use during the school year, so I can't really take a vacation until a long break.
3 weeks plus 9 personal leave days. (paid)
Next year I get 4 weeks and 11 PL days. 17 years at this job so far :)
Also can take off anytime I want unpaid (within reason usually 4-5 times in a 90 day period before discipline action is taken) I usually get 30 hrs off between trips also.
Railroad worker in the US
Next year I get 4 weeks and 11 PL days. 17 years at this job so far :)
Also can take off anytime I want unpaid (within reason usually 4-5 times in a 90 day period before discipline action is taken) I usually get 30 hrs off between trips also.
Railroad worker in the US
I work 3 days one week 4 the next, so basically half the year.
I get 12 1/2 PTO and 6 additional days for certain Holidays if they fall on a day I'm scheduled to work.
I also get unlimited sick time
I get 12 1/2 PTO and 6 additional days for certain Holidays if they fall on a day I'm scheduled to work.
I also get unlimited sick time
In the US, it doesnt even matter how many days you accrue a year because you will be afraid to use them.
To answer the op, i get
*7 sick days (56 hours accrual per year)
*4 "personal" days (32 hours)
2 weeks vacation (80 hours generated provided I show up everyday on time. This also increases year over year.)
All of that a year. The only thing that rolls over to next year is my vacation time (up to 120 hours I believe).
Thing is, we run a tight shift. So no one wants to take off. We all are getting burnt out. So when we do take days off, we take a whole bunch of days. Which means someone else has to cover you. Then they get burnt out. The cycle repeats. Plus, it looks bad in US culture to keep taking days off. People gossip all the time about you and call you lazy. Not a good look for the bosses as well.
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To answer the op, i get
*7 sick days (56 hours accrual per year)
*4 "personal" days (32 hours)
2 weeks vacation (80 hours generated provided I show up everyday on time. This also increases year over year.)
All of that a year. The only thing that rolls over to next year is my vacation time (up to 120 hours I believe).
Thing is, we run a tight shift. So no one wants to take off. We all are getting burnt out. So when we do take days off, we take a whole bunch of days. Which means someone else has to cover you. Then they get burnt out. The cycle repeats. Plus, it looks bad in US culture to keep taking days off. People gossip all the time about you and call you lazy. Not a good look for the bosses as well.
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This is me as well. I can't ever go back to working 5-day 8-hour shifts. It's all about that 4-10, baby! Plus optional / unlimited overtime on Fridays and Saturdays.
4 weeks + 9 holidays (7 years there). But I am about to switch to consulting and move fields so I am going back to 7 days off a year. Going to be quite a shock.
I want that schedule so bad. I used to work something similar at my old job:
2-12hrs and 2-8hrs at the end of the week. The 12s hurt but once you got those 3 days off? Oh my fucking god. It was like a mini vacation. I fucking hate 5-8hrs now.
Zero. The last "vacation" I took was when I got married in April 2017: was gone five days total, three of which were my regular days off, two were just unpaid.
6 weeks. Personally I think that is quite a bit. Sure more holidays would be good but I think that gives me plenty of time off, I often don't use the full allotment.
I get 35 days including bank holidays. As for sick days, there is no number put on them, that is a weird concept to me. If I'm sick then I don't go to work.
I just got promoted to full-time at my job (in the US) and I believe I get 10 days PTO and 5 sick days, but I can't remember if the sick days are paid or unpaid. I'm mostly excited because despite being a full-time position, I'm scheduled 32 hours a week, but there's practically infinite shifts if I wanted to go up to 40 or get some overtime.
21 days of PTO + 11 holidays + unlimited sick time. 6 month paid recharge every 5 years. 6 months paternity leave (that I never plan to use).
25 days , 13 official holiday days (some may fall on weekends) and this year we got two more free ones, so 25 + 15. Didn't use all my days past two years, so I will have 50 next year lol (you can bank them).
I accrue 15 days of vacation over the course of a year. This goes up to 20 days next year. On top of that, I get 6 personal days each year, use or lose. Plus 5 sick days. All paid. In total, 26 days of paid time off, but I tend to not use half of the sick time.
Oh, and the usual holidays, minus MLK day.
Oh, and the usual holidays, minus MLK day.
7 weeks
It's all the claping that gives them the energy be at work all year long.
15 days paid regular vacation leave, 15 days paid sick leave.
The sick leave is convertible to extra cash every January (you still get paid when you take a sick leave, but you get paid an extra day's worth of pay for every sick leave you didn't consume the previous year).
The sick leave is convertible to extra cash every January (you still get paid when you take a sick leave, but you get paid an extra day's worth of pay for every sick leave you didn't consume the previous year).
23 days authorized paid leaves for this year + 12.5 days authorized paid off days (basically off in-lieu due to me working on certain weekends at home voluntarily)...i am single so not suitable but my colleagues with spouse and kids got another 7 days for childcare leave and the such,
