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Since, like you said, making it up the next week doesn’t seem kosher anymore, here’s a few strategies I recommend:
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First, if you have flexibility on which three days you come in, I’d recommend always erring on getting your badge swipes banked as early in the week as you can. You can always push your third day back from Wednesday to Thursday, or Thursday to Friday if something unforeseen comes up early in the week. But you can’t go back in time to change when you got your first and second day if something happens later.
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Always leave up to 5 days PTO unplanned through the remainder of the year, until you’re sure you’re not going to need to use it when you can’t go in. Using it as half days, that’s 10 days, or 3 1/3 full weeks worth of RTO hall passes you can call in when needed. Worst case scenario you take a bunch of extra days off around the holidays, when a lot of LOBs have nothing going on anyway, or carry it over into the new year and take some time off before 3/15.
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If you don’t like using your PTO and have less flexibility as far as which days you can come in week-to-week, try and keep a handful of extra badge swipes banked ahead of time as cushion. I know my LOB just looks for our rolling average from the prior 13 weeks to stay at or above 3.0, and from what I’ve seen on this site, for most people it’s probably the same. So as long as you track when the weeks you banked more (or less) than 3 will fall off the back end of that window, it’s easy to keep track of how much cushion you have. Any easy way to do this without it feeling like a huge pain is still coming 3 other days in a week we have off for a federal holiday, since those are counted toward our average.
I know it su-ks we can’t just be treated like adults who can figure out how to fulfill their job requirements without adhering strictly to an arbitrary metric, but this is where we’re at.