Good for you on leaving, and good luck with the search!

This is the problem with the idea that we should always be giving 110%. Companies should have enough people to deal with staffing issues. Wtf are they going to do when you die? Just fold the company and fire everyone?

Right? I don't give 110%. I just do my job. I heard that we're looking to hire another person because management finally realized we need it

Thank you!

any company that advertises unlimited PTO just don't bother applying. you'll never get that PTO and there's nothing to pay out when you quit. add to the fact that they're clearly saying "we prefer to hire idiots"

This is the lesson most fail to learn in their career: management will get by in the least amount of manpower required, and scrambling to keep all plates spinning just shows management you have the power to do so, even if you're only doing it half assed because some wide tie says it needs done.

I learned a decade ago that going above and beyond makes 'above and beyond' your normal. I will regularly sandbag at work when necessary to allow tasks to build up (along with keeping my sanity as intact as reasonable) while still getting core tasks completed. Because running myself at my peak all day every day will make me start prepping my Hemingway retirement plan, and who wants that.

Ask again when you get back, now that they know just how necessary you are. And if they still choose to say fuck you, don't work as hard as you keep looking. After all, you're still recovering

Where I live taking all your days is mandatory, by law. The company gets punished if you don’t, so the HR guys actually remind you to do it. There is a small flexibility (you can take part of your days in next year Q1) but you cannot swap your days for money, nor ‘give them’ to another employee.

Did I mention we have 25 workdays of paid vacation, by the way?

Tell them to quit busting their ass for a company that despises them. If the company just keeps throwing work ontop of overworked employees, task prioritization kicks in and I start asking for priority lists to determine what has to be done and what can slip. When I get told that it's all important and nothing slips, I just respond with 'hire someone or tell me what has to complete or can be missed, or I'll use my best judgement and choose what I work on'. You have me for 40hrs, maybe 45 on a bad week. If you give me 60 hours worth of work in a 40 hour week, I'm going to let 1/3 of what you give me burn. It's your choice what gets burned lol.

I loved the day that a shit manager said he'd fire me for that, and he really did not appreciate the combo response of "don't threaten me with a good time" and "lol you don't have the manpower for your work as is and are getting hell from upper management, you can't afford to lose me". Was very satisfying to quit with no notice a month later while he was talking shit about replacing me. Heard it took a few months to find that replacement too.

The only coverage I will go after is oncall cover, daily coverage is absolutely management's responsibility. I inform my boss what I'm sick or will be taking PTO, and he handles coverage or telling other departments to fuck off for as long as someone is out and we have to keep our core availability open.

• General, we need 10000 soldiers to take that place.
• Don't worry. We'll send 1000 and tell them "if you don't do it we have another 100000 soldiers to do your job"

Exactly lol. I might also have gone into premature menopause because of my surgery, so I'm feeling absolutely awful and am in no mood for bullshit

Where I work we're only allowed to roll five vacation days forward. Any days not taken above that are paid out at the end of fiscal from the budget of the director, so there is a rather firm rule against management declining vacation requests unless absolutely necessary. Come February, emails are generated every couple of weeks reminding managers to follow up up with employees who have more than a week remaining, so it's used by March 31.

Where I live you are legally allowed to take as many days as you want forward. But you are allowed to take all of them at once if you want to, so most companies force you (they are allowed to do that) to take your vacation within the year, since otherwise people bunch it up and then leave for half a year of paid leave.

There was a guy in the newspaper a while ago who never took vacation for decades and ended up taking all days before retirement to retire a few years earlier.

This. Imagine a company advertising "Unlimited wages (manager's discretion)". Would you seriously think that's a good deal?

"Unlimited PTO (manager's discretion)" is exactly the same thing.

This. A company paying for 100% effort shouldn't expect 150%.

And most companies don't even pay 100%.

sounds like you should hire more people, cunt

That is exactly what I want to scream to young people! Stop bitching about your employer, take the experience you're gaining, fuck 'em. Rinse and repeat until you land where you're happy.

Moved down here with two good friends. One went to work at an oil change place, way below his skillset and experience. Kept swapping jobs until he was a service manager making $100K at the largest dealership chain in town. Minimum wage to $100K in less than 10 years, and I'm sure he's well above that now. Imagine that!

"has to do extra work" ... that is a question of priorities, isn't it.

It sounds more like work addiction, though.