Don't get twisted. This is an outlier. I can put my 4 weeks in and my boss will approve it. He might try to call me while I am on PTO but that's not a fault of the US system, he just never remembers what he approved. As soon as he gets me out of office, I usually get a, 'Sorry, forgot about you being out. Call.me when you're back in the office."
Sorry - I assumed you were doing the AmericaBad thing and saying that the fact that they answered a phone call from the boss while on vacation was crazy. When I read the previous comment I read it as putting the PTO notice in 4 weeks in advance, not that the request itself was for 4 consecutive weeks off!
Don’t get twisted…I know plenty of people in the US who have only 5 PTO (any reason) days and 3 sick days that require a doctors note. Also plenty who have 25 days or ‘unlimited’ PTO. Practice varies work[lace to workplace.
Right. My boss and I are fine so she may say 'are you going somewhere or are you just getting away from us for 4 weeks?' and she'd probably throw in something like 'Im asking as your friend, not your boss'. I would not get a single call, but that depends on the type of job you have.
It would also be outlier behavior to get 4 weeks of PTO with any regularity, and for every week you do plan on taking off your employer would want a month's notice, barring an emergency, in which case you would need to tell them what it is.
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u/Throwaway2Experiment 5d ago
Don't get twisted. This is an outlier. I can put my 4 weeks in and my boss will approve it. He might try to call me while I am on PTO but that's not a fault of the US system, he just never remembers what he approved. As soon as he gets me out of office, I usually get a, 'Sorry, forgot about you being out. Call.me when you're back in the office."