I got a bump in vacation days this year, but with no real reason to use them, I've still got a bunch left to burn (we don't carry over). I'm starting to resort to random extra 3 day weekends, which isn't terrible. Or, a four day weekend in this case.
Man, I can't wait for my next vacation days bump; we've got vacation trips queued up all over the place, although most of them include me working from those sites
I hit 10 years in October, which will be my final bump at 6.5 weeks. I can also carry over 5 weeks. Really nice with young kids.
I thought I was lucky with 5 weeks of PTO after 5 years on the job.......
We get a bump at 1 / 5/ 10 years of service of 4 / 5 / 6 weeks of pto. I'm looking forward to the additional week next year, but we can only carry over 3 days and thus far I've not been able to use all my time in the last two fiscal years. I'm starting to feel like I need to learn from Twayn's comment below.....
I got a bump last fall, and State employees can carry over up to 275 hours. I'm currently at 300ish (but going camping in Voyageurs for three days next week).
Here, state employees can carry 650 hours. I have around 1,000. (There's no actual enforcement, particularly for managers and execs).
If you don't get under 275 hours at some any during the fiscal year, then you revert back to 275 at the start of the next fiscal year.
We are supposed to file a "plan" for getting under the maximum at the start of each year. That's about as far as it goes.
During the Great Recession, there were rumblings about enforcing the maximum and actually taking away leave time above the max. But that didn't happen. It is questionable as to whether it would even be constitutional here.
My situation is a bit unique. I technically draw 4 weeks vacation, like all my managers who have been with us 5 years or more. I typically take 2 full weeks of vacation for either trips or staycations (working on the yard or house). I usually work 5.5 to 6.5 days per week. I am hoping that as I continue to grow and develop my management team, I can start taking 2 full days off each week and sneak in a 3rd week of vacation when possible. In terms of my management team, most of them only take 2 weeks of vacation a year and I cash them out on whatever weeks they don't use. My hourly staff gets up to 2 weeks of paid vacation if they average 32 hours per week to get them into our full time class of employees.
I should also add that, for my managers, they often are allowed an extra day off per week when needed. I don't charge this against their vacation time, as they often put in extra hours above and beyond the call of duty.
This. If I had been compensated for all the extra time I put in over the years I could be retired now.
I don't get any vacation days at all. But, in theory I only actually have to work the 32 weeks a year that are in the Spring and Fall semesters, plus a few days before for professional development. In reality, that doesn't happen, but just about any work I do in the summer and winter terms at least means extra pay, and there are a few weeks fully off in between terms. Any prep for classes before the semester is officially unpaid, though.
I do get plenty of sick leave, which I almost never end up actually taking. At the end of this month, I'll have over 900 hours of sick leave built up. With they way they count our sick leave, I don't expect I will ever use a significant amount of it. I think we get 2 weeks of sick leave a year, but that really goes in as 80 hours, and if I'm gone for a full day when I only teach one, 1.5-hour lecture, they only count that as 1.5 hours of sick leave taken. Not that I'm complaining, that's definitely a pro-faculty policy. We also have a weird system where full time people can build up "adjunct" sick leave for teaching extra classes, though you need to get sick in the summer or winter terms to actually use that. I've got over 100 hours of adjunct sick leave built up as well.
When I eventually retire, that unused sick leave can count as service time in our pension calculation, so I expect I'll get to count as working at least a year longer than I really did.
When I left the city of Albuquerque's employment I had saved 5 1/2 months of sick leave and 3 weeks of vacation. That paycheck floated us in our move to Texas. If I had stayed there I would be 17+ years into 26 years of service time. The slow slide into easy street would have set in long ago.
It’ll take me more than 26 years to reach it, but the pension light at the end of the tunnel is quite alluring. Add in tenure, and the horizon expands to get even closer. For better or worse, I can say right now that, unless I screw up on a big (probably even illegal) scale or decide to move on myself, I’m already in the only real, grown-up, full-time job I’ll ever have.
Old. School.
According to various responses, nobody got ejected for that. Street justice, I guess.
Yeah I checked out the boxscore. Just a bunt groundout to pitcher.
Interesting call. In this clip the pitcher never throws the ball to first base, he just drops it and joins the rumble. Randle clearly ran out of the base path and interfered with the pitcher, but then he was tackled by the first baseman before he could reach the bag. It doesn't look like an actual put-out was ever completed.
The pitcher holds onto the ball through the collision and holds it up to the ump who appears to signal the out before the pitcher spikes the ball and dives into the fracas.
Upon further review, I stand corrected.
FREE BASEBALL! Mrs. Twayn's not feeling well and wants to stay home so I have a couple of tickets to today's game to unload. Section 203, Row 5. First come first served, I'll just need an email address or cell number to forward the tickets.
Just about time for my yearly tradition of watching the first 5 and last 5 laps of the 500.
Wait, what? Lore is part of the ownership group? Not Data?
We are screwed.
A-Rod's got a broken heart; can't even tell his boys apart.
I agree that expansion in Seattle is the likely route but does ARod care that enough about Seattle enough that he wants to make things right? Seems out of character for him.
I'm not a quant, but I'm thinking there has to be more revenue potential in Seattle than Minneapolis. Either that or A-Rod has some girlfriends there he wants to see more often.
All about the new arena.
Yeah, and who gets to pay for it. Seattle Timberwolves works for me.
Easy peasy marketing switch.
With the logging history, how about the Seattle Timber?
Seawolves are already the Major League Rugby club in Seattle
Sirs, that is clearly an orca. They’re going to have to give up the name.
Alaska-Anchorage can probably keep theirs, and maybe SUNY Stony Brook.
I’m not sure who the MiLB Erie Seawolves are trying to fool, though. Motion denied.
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That’s fine. That implies he’s willing to move team to highest bidder arena-wise, not because he feels like he owes Seattle something.
If he moves the wolves to Seattle it's clear he holds a grudge against the city.
Minor Details, covering yesterday's games, is now up.
Anyone feeling sad that the Wild got eliminated on Friday should go check out how the Golden Ķnights are faring in game 1 tonight.
Oof. The Avs are pretty scary.
Both teams were playing for the right to lose to the Avs. I can't help but wonder how poorly the Wild would have matched up after your analysis on which opponent was easier in the first round.
Speaking of vacation, ours is over as we're back in Minnesota. Our luggage, on the other hand, decided to continue the vacation in Houston.
Incidentally, don't fly Sun Country.