Paid Time Off

Here's the way it works: at the place I work, you do not get; sick days, or vacation. You do get paid for certain Holidays, but you're expected to work some of them as well, and they aren't automatically off. So instead, we have PTO. So even though I have had two weeks off this recent holiday season, now I have more than 100 hours allotted for the new year.

I'm planning on several snowboarding weekends over February and March. I'd have gone already except that conditions until recently were pretty warm and slushy according to the news and internet weather reports.

It'll be the second and fourth weekends of both months. That way for 4 long weekends, I only use 8 days worth of PTO, or 8 x 8 = 64. 104-64 = 40.

Now one week left for the year doesn't sound like a lot, and it isn't, but here's the plan; overtime. The more extra shifts I pick up on the corresponding weeks, the less I have to worry about using up my time off, and it is only 2 extra shifts every pay period. No problem.