Forgive the rant, but it’s insane to me that time off is based upon seniority. Just passed on a pretty decent job offer because they wanted to start me with 5 days of PTO the first year, increasing to 10 days the second. It stays at 10 days until the 5 year mark, where it increases to 15 days. That’s just crazy to me.
I know, first world problems. I’m thankful to have a good job and an offer. But with many decades of work experience under my belt, coupled with the fact that, in my field, the average tenure of an employee is under two years, such an accrual period is silly
My friend flipped it around and I love his analogy. Ok, I have to accrue time off? Great. So. When I start work and you ask me to do something, I should answer “sorry, I can’t, I don’t have enough time on the job to perform that task. You will open that option for such work after I’ve been here a year!”
I did try to negotiate more time off as part of my offer, but their HR team refused blaming it on “corporate policy”. Fine. Enjoy your corporate policy and your open job req