Obviously I know if you take a vacation you lose PTO days, which is fair. If you want a day off, you take a PTO day. Again, fair. What’s not fair, is being forced to take PTO time for something out of your control.
I live about 45 minutes away from work. I typically leave about an hour and a half early to account for traffic and being able to relax in my car before going into the office, so typically I arrive with about 15-20 minutes of me time in the parking lot.
Well, the other day there was a wreck after I left for work. It closed off two of three lanes on the interstate, so traffic backed up really bad. It resulted in me getting to work 30 minutes late. I would’ve had to have known the wreck would happen and left my house over two hours before my 8am job to not have been late.
This has come out of my PTO hours, and I’m just so angry. Obviously if I had a job that mattered, it would make sense, but I don’t do anything at work. I maybe have four hours of work a day, and I don’t typically really start my day until about an hour after I get there anyway. Guess what I did on that day? Absolutely nothing of importance. I finished all my work for the day on time even though I missed the first 30 minutes of work. It just makes me so upset that I’m forced to take a blow for something that was out of my control. The real kicker is if multiple people are late because of a wreck, you don’t have to take it as PTO, but because i live the opposite direction of everyone in my office, I always am the only one late if there’s a wreck on my way in.
I have 8 days of personal time a year. I don’t have separate sick days. Give me my 30 minutes without consequence.