What's a floating holiday?

[Avid USER]

My jobs has five or odd number of holidays off + three floating holidays.

What's that? Are they both paid time-off?

Yea, my HR binder doesn't specifically specify...

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Also, I get two weeks of PTO. Is that really 14 days of PTO or 10 business days and call it two weeks?

 

[bigrash]

yes, they're most likely paid time off. i only get 1

 

[laurenlex]

Is it a holiday that everybody can't take off at the same time?

 

[KK]

It's like for when you create holidays just for your family. ie. festivus.

 

[EagleKeeper]

1) Free days for you to take when-ever - Essiently extra vacation time
2) The local office has 3 extra days allocated for holidays beyond the standard "government" ones. The local bigshot can determine how to use them.

Example - Day after Thanksgiving.

If Xmass falls on a Tues of Thurs - use the extra dates to extend a weekend.

 

[Orsorum]

God I love having 5 weeks paid vacation. Plus... 8 holidays, I think?

 

[sonz70]

Free day to take whenever, paid.

 

[bmacd]

holidays based on your area. Like when i went to high school, a large portion was Jewish, so we also observed jewish holidays. We had a small-medium black population that observed days like Martin Luther King day and Kwanzaa. Those could be your filler holidays.

-=bmacd=-

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: sonz70
Free day to take whenever, paid.

we have a winner

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
1) Free days for you to take when-ever - Essiently extra vacation time
2) The local office has 3 extra days allocated for holidays beyond the standard "government" ones. The local bigshot can determine how to use them.

Example - Day after Thanksgiving.

If Xmass falls on a Tues of Thurs - use the extra dates to extend a weekend.

:thumbsup:

 

[Avid USER]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
1) Free days for you to take when-ever - Essiently extra vacation time
2) The local office has 3 extra days allocated for holidays beyond the standard "government" ones. The local bigshot can determine how to use them.

Example - Day after Thanksgiving.

If Xmass falls on a Tues of Thurs - use the extra dates to extend a weekend.

So they have to be on or near by a holiday that isn't obviously already taken off by the company?

Or I can just use it anytime (like next wednesday?)

 

[sonz70]

You can use anytime, I get 8, Ive used 4 so far, mostly for days I didn't feel like working (sundays)

 

[batchusa]

its where you have to inhale a lot of helium before Columbus Day

 

[Rubycon]

These days occur when their specific gravity is less than 1.0.

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: batchusa
its where you have to inhale a lot of helium before Columbus Day

Welcome to the forums...that lvl of maturity won't fly here. You will get eaten alive

 

[mugs]

They're just like vacation days, except you probably can't carry them over to next year.

 

[Avid USER]

Originally posted by: sonz70
You can use anytime, I get 8, Ive used 4 so far, mostly for days I didn't feel like working (sundays)

Then why dont they call it extra PTO or just add 4 to their existing PTO. WTF?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Avid USER

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
1) Free days for you to take when-ever - Essiently extra vacation time
2) The local office has 3 extra days allocated for holidays beyond the standard "government" ones. The local bigshot can determine how to use them.

Example - Day after Thanksgiving.

If Xmass falls on a Tues of Thurs - use the extra dates to extend a weekend.

So they have to be on or near by a holiday that isn't obviously already taken off by the company?

Or I can just use it anytime (like next wednesday?)

Option #1 OR Option #2. Not both

Weeks - 5 business days/week

Check with HR on the first issue

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: batchusa
its where you have to inhale a lot of helium before Columbus Day

Welcome to the forums...that lvl of maturity won't fly here. You will get eaten alive

You're right, he's definitely more mature than the average ATOTer.

 

[sonz70]

Originally posted by: Avid USER

Originally posted by: sonz70
You can use anytime, I get 8, Ive used 4 so far, mostly for days I didn't feel like working (sundays)

Then why dont they call it extra PTO or just add 4 to their existing PTO. WTF?

I get 4 weeks of PTO aswell, don't know. Maybe Tax reasons? *shrug*

 

[Avid USER]

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Avid USER

Originally posted by: sonz70
You can use anytime, I get 8, Ive used 4 so far, mostly for days I didn't feel like working (sundays)

Then why dont they call it extra PTO or just add 4 to their existing PTO. WTF?

I get 4 weeks of PTO aswell, don't know. Maybe Tax reasons? *shrug*

Is that 28 business days? or 20 days?

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: Avid USER

Originally posted by: sonz70
You can use anytime, I get 8, Ive used 4 so far, mostly for days I didn't feel like working (sundays)

Then why dont they call it extra PTO or just add 4 to their existing PTO. WTF?

They do not carry over usually

 

[sonz70]

heh...we work 24/7/365, so it is all the same.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Some PTO is based on seniority.

The floaters are company policy regardless of seniority.

Some businesses that have clients that pay for services will charge the client for the floaters. The PTO is built into the hourly cost of the flunky

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Avid USER

Originally posted by: sonz70

Originally posted by: Avid USER

Originally posted by: sonz70
You can use anytime, I get 8, Ive used 4 so far, mostly for days I didn't feel like working (sundays)

Then why dont they call it extra PTO or just add 4 to their existing PTO. WTF?

I get 4 weeks of PTO aswell, don't know. Maybe Tax reasons? *shrug*

Is that 28 business days? or 20 days?

See my post above and do the math