Hi all, this is my (23F) first job after college and I don’t know if this is typical or not.
At my job, my contract states that I accrue 6 hours of PTO for every month I work (I am salaried). The days I work are considered to be 8 hours in terms of this PTO policy, even though I usually average over 9.
However, whenever I request a day off, my boss (35?M) tells me that I’ll need to work extra hours for the rest of that week to make up for it. Not “Make sure you work extra hours if you have more work that needs to get done”, which would make sense to me, but just that I’ll need to work extra. For example, I asked for a Monday off for a wedding about 2 months in advance, and he said I could only take it if I still hit 40 hours that week. My company doesn’t allow any remote work, so this means 40 hours in the office.
This policy doesn’t really make sense to me. Is this typical for entry-level, salaried positions?