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Originally Posted by Hemmi
I still hate my job.
I want to go work somewhere that I can actually walk out the door at my scheduled time at least two or three times a week. That is not too much to ask. Oh, and a job where I can actually take some of the vacation time I get and not come back to a huge mess it takes me weeks to catch up on.
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At a previous employer, I was a salaried employee, so instead of getting overtime for work beyond 40 hours a week, I received comp time that could be taken as vacation days.
The problem was, I was the only one in the part of my company I worked in who could
do what I did, and any time I thought about time off,
something would arise that required my attention.
It was eased a bit by the fact that I didn't
want a normal vacation. I wanted to be able to take long weekends, and tell my coworkers on Wednesday that I'd be out Thursday through Monday and return Tuesday. I could tell my employer a year in advance just
which weekends they would be, so they were comfortable with the notion.
But I earned enough comp time through long hours (including an all-nighter or two) that I could tell my boss "Bye, Larry. See you in a month!" if I really wanted to use it up. (In fairness,
he could have said "Bye, everyone. See you in
6 months!
)
But it was "Use it or lose it" - it did not carry over across years. What I would have liked is "Just cut me an extra paycheck to cover the comped time I must lose going into next year", but that wasn't something they'd do.
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Dennis