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A local radio station morning show had people calling in to brag about how much vacay time the get. There was a guy claiming to have been a federal employee with 20 years in his position, he has 11 MONTHS of annual vacation, plus sick time... it almost sounds too good to be true, but then again, Uncle Sam may make it possible. Lucky bastard if it's true!
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That can't be true. You can only carry over so many days per year (just like in the military). Sick days can be accumulated, but not annual.
BTW, I'm not a fed. I do work there though. And my company provides unlimited vacation days. Not that anyone abuses that benefit. It's nice to be treated like an adult!
To be honest, I think that person is probably one of the shytb@gs that they can't get rid of and just give them no responsibilities and sit them in a corner to stay out of everyones way. That is more reasonable to have 11 months of nothing to do!

 

I get 6 weeks plus 5 floater days.

That is very generous but we can no longer bank days.
Problem is 7 of us means we are almost always 1 or 2 people off

 

I've seen 5 weeks vaca and 13 personal days, plus 16 holidays for local government workers.

 

I'm at 5 weeks vacation, 11 holidays, and 56 hours of PPT (paid personal time) each year.

To be honest, I always have a tough time using it all because I work a 12 hour shift schedule. Use it or lose it.

 

That might explain it you always seem a little off

 

Afternoon everyone!! Sorta napped the day away and getting ready to take a little aromatic ride and there will probably be some barking meowing and the animals make noise too.

 

Safe travels Marty

 

Thanks miss Susan!

 

MMMMMMMMM SMART MAN…….

 

They usually call school if the bus company thinks it’s too slippery to drive in. Several schools have gone to remote learning on snow days, but we’re too small a district, and a little slow on accepting new ways to do things.

I had 35 years as a civ, and yes they are generous with leave. Because I hardly ever used sick,leave, by the time I retired, I had over 1200 hours of sick leave, plus the annual max (240 hrs) for personal. (Annual) leave. Course in order to have that, it means you have to go to work for most of your career and not abuse the system as many do.

 

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No

 

I tuned in mid way through that conversation but the DJ's weren't exactly buying the story. The phone-in guy sounded like a 'sane' person, not flaky or anything. Who really knows? You would think that at some point there would be a ceiling. The most that I was ever able to have at my old job was 80hrs of vacay on the books and 80 hrs of sick leave, anything accrued and not used during the year was sold back to you ( vacay time) or it went into a 'deep bank' for sick time. They also followed the federal holiday schedule. This new job is laughable at best- 40 hrs of PTO which includes vacay and sick time. 5 holidays.

 

As a civ working for DoD, we could accumulate unlimited sick leave at 4 hrs per pay period, and (after 15 yrs) 8 hrs of annual leave per pay period, max out at 240/year. Sick leave (at least where I worked), was limited to 3 consecutive days without doctors note, or special cases like birth of child, hospitalization, etc.

 

For ref
https://www.fedweek.com/ask/federal-government-policies/annual-leave-federal-government/

 

You got smoke coming out of your ears from thinking to hard?

 

He had to be including 20+ years of sick leave in that sum.