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   Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:30:44 JST Pete Zaitcev
   Robot nag at work today:
   
   "We believe that taking time away from work to rest, recuperate, spend time with family and/or loved ones, or to pursue personal interests is an important part of being a [worker here]. We noticed you have a balance of greater than 80 hours of unused PTO/Annual Leave for the current benefit year, and want to encourage you to take advantage of this important [...] benefit."
   
   Why is this happening? What is the upside for the company?
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 05:30:43 JST Sick Sun

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     @zaitcev the real reason is they don't want you coming back and asking for a month off at a time.
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 07:10:22 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     @sun In that case they can limit the maximum amount to 29 days or something. Why insist that employees used up their vacation time instead of letting it expire?
     
     This actually going much further than the nag email. A while back they created a "Christmas Shutdown", when everyone goes on vacation. I was wondering, what if I use up all my vacation before Christmas and then have no days, am I fired? But even that was not enough. Some 5 years ago they added "quarterly recharge days", which also take it out of your PTO.
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