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> But how well would it fly if you were to plead the need to feast, to embalm your brother, or to make an offering to a god? Vacation, funerals, religious holy
by conanite 4y ago
> But how well would it fly if you were to plead the need to feast, to embalm your brother, or to make an offering to a god?
Vacation, funerals, religious holy-days?
- djmips 4y agoTrue but it would be funny to actually use those terms in your time-off request.
- reaperducer 4y agoMe a few months ago: "I need to take a PTO day tomorrow." Boss: "What for?" Me: "It's P." She never asked again.
- scoot 4y ago"P."?
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- vaidhy 4y agoPersonal as in PTO is personal time off
- jakeva 4y agoWhere I work the P in PTO means "paid"
- xeromal 4y agoPretty sure it's Paid Time Off at least here in the US
- reaperducer 4y agoNo, it is "Personal." To differentiate from other types of paid days off that we get. (Bereavement, religious holidays, etc...) And I'm also in the U.S.
- xeromal 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off?wprov=sfla1
- reaperducer 4y agoCiting Wikipedia doesn't negate the fact that my company calls it "Personal." And since I wrote the original comment, I'm probably more familiar with my company's terminology than Wikipedia.
- xeromal 4y agoAh, just making sure you meant your company and not the US. Glad we reached an agreement.
- dragonwriter 4y agoBoth terms are used with identical meaning referring to shared leave pool instead of separate vacation and sick leave (“annual leave” is sometimes used for this purpose, but sometimes, e.g. federal service, equivalent to “vacation”); IME (which may not be representative) paid is somewhat more common than personal for the shared leave pool. Confusingly, paid time off (with the same abbreviation) is also sometimes used in the more obvious sense encompassing all or most paid leave (including some or all of things like bereavement, company/public holidays, paid time for administrative shutdowns, etc.) (All of this is in the U.S.)
- typon 4y agoI read that as "period". My female coworkers always have to make excuses when they're having cramps - outright saying "i have period cramps" is still a little awkward when you're talking to a male manager
- dkrest 4y agoI assume it's the Pi day.
- mnw21cam 4y agoPlease Turn Over? (I'm guessing you mean Private Time Off?)
- welfare 4y agoIt means Personal Time Off, essentially any time an employee has a paid day off work. (There's also unpaid PTO) Basically paternity / maternity leave, sick leave, vacation, jury duty, bank holiday, or whatever else is in the company's PTO policy...
- rpmisms 4y agoI do this. Recently took some time off for Pascha (Russian Easter), and made a portion of the request in Old Church Slavonic
- 988747 4y ago>> Pascha (Russian Easter) Feels funny to read this. Always thought that Pascha was a Jewish holiday, which was later eclipsed by Easter (The Last Supper that Jesus had with his disciples was them celebrating the Pascha)
- rpmisms 4y agoJews call it Passover now. I could call it воскрешение if you like.