I get 11 PTO days this year. That includes sick days and vacation days. I love my job and company, but the time off sucks. I can go over that if I need to take care of myself, but it still sucks
I mean, they pay for our health insurance, give hefty bonuses each quarter, and seem to genuinely care. The company is only 13 people, though, so we can’t really handle being down people all the time. Like I get their reasoning, and I can take more time off than that, but it’ll just be unpaid and people may get a lil pissed.
Meanwhile, here in Denmark any manager I’ve ever had insists that I take sick day when I’m sick. Not for my sake, for the company.
And i have virtually unlimited sick days, I don’t loose any money or vacation days by taking sick leave.
Also, if the place is understaffed because just one person is on sick leave, that’s a management decision. Why would anyone who cares about you, be pissed at you for acting sick while being sick…
I mean they don’t get actually pissed, it just inconveniences others but they understand that people get sick. I try to just work from home if I can if I’m sick. We plan on hiring more people when we move to our bigger office in the spring, so hopefully we won’t be short staffed again.
Dang that sucks, I guess I’m one of the lucky Americans that has decent (for American standards) time off options. This year I’ll get about 17 days paid time off and about 17 days unpaid time off
I work in IT, at a small MSP that’s growing insanely fast, so I get why they have the time off stuff they do. I’m not prohibited from taking off more than 11 days, but excessive time off unpaid is frowned upon because even being down one tech can fuck over everyone else. Hopefully that changes when we start hiring new people when we move offices in the spring.
You’re literally foregoing pay for time off so that the MSP owner can have a bigger paycheck.
You should be thinking about this each and every time you look at what you make for what you do. All they did was get an agreement signed (probably) and you’re doing a giant portion of the work. Their cut should be proportionally miniscule for the labor given… but instead I can promise that for every buck you make them with billable hours you are probably making 25 cents or less… and then they have the flat fee contract on top of it that they are pocketing as well.
I mean that’s 100% how for profit companies are unfortunately. I make enough to be comfortable and I’m respected and treated fairly compared to every other place I’ve worked. I’m not unhappy here, yet. And I hope I won’t ever become unhappy here, but company growth can change people. I’m out at the first bit of toxicity. Well toxicity that isn’t inherent to for profit shit. If that makes sense. Right now, they’re good people compared to every employer I’ve had and everyone I talk to about this place tells me to stay because this place is genuinely good. I just hope that the promotion they’re hinting at giving me next year isn’t just something they’re waving over my head.
I get 11 PTO days this year. That includes sick days and vacation days. I love my job and company, but the time off sucks. I can go over that if I need to take care of myself, but it still sucks
Ouch. I give my nanny more time off than that. You may love your job and company but just remember that they do not care about you or your coworkers.
I mean, they pay for our health insurance, give hefty bonuses each quarter, and seem to genuinely care. The company is only 13 people, though, so we can’t really handle being down people all the time. Like I get their reasoning, and I can take more time off than that, but it’ll just be unpaid and people may get a lil pissed.
You mean that?
Meanwhile, here in Denmark any manager I’ve ever had insists that I take sick day when I’m sick. Not for my sake, for the company.
And i have virtually unlimited sick days, I don’t loose any money or vacation days by taking sick leave.
Also, if the place is understaffed because just one person is on sick leave, that’s a management decision. Why would anyone who cares about you, be pissed at you for acting sick while being sick…
I mean they don’t get actually pissed, it just inconveniences others but they understand that people get sick. I try to just work from home if I can if I’m sick. We plan on hiring more people when we move to our bigger office in the spring, so hopefully we won’t be short staffed again.
Dang that sucks, I guess I’m one of the lucky Americans that has decent (for American standards) time off options. This year I’ll get about 17 days paid time off and about 17 days unpaid time off
I work in IT, at a small MSP that’s growing insanely fast, so I get why they have the time off stuff they do. I’m not prohibited from taking off more than 11 days, but excessive time off unpaid is frowned upon because even being down one tech can fuck over everyone else. Hopefully that changes when we start hiring new people when we move offices in the spring.
You’re literally foregoing pay for time off so that the MSP owner can have a bigger paycheck.
You should be thinking about this each and every time you look at what you make for what you do. All they did was get an agreement signed (probably) and you’re doing a giant portion of the work. Their cut should be proportionally miniscule for the labor given… but instead I can promise that for every buck you make them with billable hours you are probably making 25 cents or less… and then they have the flat fee contract on top of it that they are pocketing as well.
I mean that’s 100% how for profit companies are unfortunately. I make enough to be comfortable and I’m respected and treated fairly compared to every other place I’ve worked. I’m not unhappy here, yet. And I hope I won’t ever become unhappy here, but company growth can change people. I’m out at the first bit of toxicity. Well toxicity that isn’t inherent to for profit shit. If that makes sense. Right now, they’re good people compared to every employer I’ve had and everyone I talk to about this place tells me to stay because this place is genuinely good. I just hope that the promotion they’re hinting at giving me next year isn’t just something they’re waving over my head.