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People that have PTO, USE it.
You have it to use.
Sincerely, a person in the service industry who has forgone their time off and been overworked, taken advantage of, and under appreciated by their coworkers and superiors anyway.
Your employer is NOT your 'family'. https://twitter.com/privilegelog/status/1390342231056396292
You have it to use.
Sincerely, a person in the service industry who has forgone their time off and been overworked, taken advantage of, and under appreciated by their coworkers and superiors anyway.
Your employer is NOT your 'family'. https://twitter.com/privilegelog/status/1390342231056396292
Nevermind that in hospitality there are often literal blackout periods where you CANNOT take PTO (All of December, The Thursday-Sunday in the same week as Valentine's Day/Mother's Day etc).
At places where there isn't PTO people go to work sick because they can't afford to stay home. People go to work drained because they can't take breaks for their mental health.
How is any of that good for the person, the workplace, or the job that needs to be done?
How is any of that good for the person, the workplace, or the job that needs to be done?
I would literally worry myself sick that my station wouldn't run without me there. That my absence would set everyone back. But somehow things always worked out when I wasn't there.
And in the even that it didn't, it wasn't my coworkers who suffered from the loss in productivity due to my absence. It was ME.
Because when I came back to work *I'd* have to clean up the mess that they couldn't handle. *I'd* have to stay late to do that work that wasn't done.
Because when I came back to work *I'd* have to clean up the mess that they couldn't handle. *I'd* have to stay late to do that work that wasn't done.
A competent manager will make the schedule so that everything is covered. Even when people take PTO. A competent team will be able to reallocate the workload to compensate for a missing person if things change in an emergency.
If neither of these things are happening, then the workplace is poorly run and poorly staffed and you shouldn't want to work there anyway. Because they are taking advantage of you, your labor, your mental health, your free time, and who knows what else.
We are people with individual needs but we also work together as a team. If the TEAM can't work together to get the work done then what kind of 'Team' is it?
Sounds like OP wants to be responsible for their own work only, and resents having to do any actual 'teamwork'.
This is the work 'family' you're sacrificing your PTO for.
Couldn't be me.
This is the work 'family' you're sacrificing your PTO for.
Couldn't be me.
