Anyone here took PTO and went into the office to work? Took calls while on PTO and/or responded to email?
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Never. Vacation time has always been my time. Not once in my work life of over 30 years have I work on an vacation day. And I never, ever will. When I go on vacation, all of my devices are turned off. You cannot get hold of me. And if you try to get me on my home phone or cell, I'll not be answering it.
That is definitely a thing of the past, as is anything over 40 hours per week.
Yes, I did as I was so committed for so many years, working weekends, while on vacation etc.
“My manager insisted I take my laptop on my honeymoon so I was "reachable".”
I certainly hope you’re jesting. I’m thankful my current boss has enough decorum to not make any presumptuous, overbearing demands.
I took my laptop and COU with me on every vacation, unless I was out of the country. And I was expected to answer my COU 24/7 regardless of time of day or where i was. including active hurricanes, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, major sporting events literally nothing mattered. And of course I was told to move to Dallas this summer I declined. Severance has been nice. This is the expectation in Townes Org. I hope this norm changes
a couple of times to repair a network outage, but they paid me handsomely for my time.
My manager insisted I take my laptop on my honeymoon so I was "reachable".
Answering calls and text, yep. Never again. I can treat T how it treats me. With zero regard. It’s a two way street.
taking calls from a company phone while at the urinal - turned my phone in the next day
I left T in the spring. But while working there, before RTO hit, my manager at the time used to call me and ask me to do things while on vacation (even when I was out of town without my laptop). My biggest regret of my working life is that I actually took those calls and did the things he asked me to do, no matter how much it inconvenienced me. Even after I got a different manager, I was well recognized by peers and other leaders for my technical expertise and was regularly consulted on my days off. I gladly pitched in, because I was passionate about my job and helping my peers and team . Then we got a new AVP who was determined to make his mark by being an RTO task master, and I decided to quit going the extra mile. I had originally been hired as a virtual worker over a decade before RTO and lived quite a distance from the office. It was just stupid to spend 6 hours driving on the days that I went in just to sit in an open space area and get on teams calls with my teams and peers, none of whom actually worked in the same state that I was in. It wasn't long afterwards that I left the company. Best decision ever.
I do it more often than I probably should. But, because there’s so much on my plate, there’s not many to back me up. Also, just being out a few days makes for a brutal first day back, with tons of emails and issues to address.
Now that my RTO is effective immediately, I’m pretty much using PTO as free WFH days, since I have time to burn before the end of the year. It’s almost embarrassing to admit that, given the circumstances.
I was in Globals and had the same customer for 17 years.
I worked whenever the customer needed anything as we're were pId on revenue.
This was back when T sold solutions but today everything is a $70 widget.
Used to log in from home all the time while on vacation or taking a sick day. Imagine how funny it is now with 5 day RTO. I absolutely cannot believe the sheer magnitude of stupidity and backward logic here. It may very well be this 5 day RTO is just the last phase of the “purge the old caucasian” dog and pony show and they relax everything once it’s a wrap. Who knows. Only the DEI racist Jeremey knows. One thing is for sure though, nobody here is driving into the office on a vacation or PTO day. Nobody here will be logging in from home on a day off either.
"Can't wait to hand in my notice now"
These claims are no different than those saying they would leave the country if Trump won. They will continue to be here, and so will you. See you on Jan 6th. Bluff called.
did you ever work full days when wfh? be honest with yourself.
Last year I had around 12 days left to burn in December. Got tapped to kickoff a new program. Worked half those days as full days to position the program to start in January.
If that happened again this year I would tell them to pound sand and find someone else. You get what you give.
Not in ten years or so.
The data they use to capture “working hours” is garbage. Only accounts for hours logged in while in office. They aren’t tracking the hours logged in from home. That’s probably when most real work gets done because no one can focus in the office.
This will come home to roost in a bad way in 2025
Why do you think the data they used to determine we aren’t working is so wrong?
Those days are now counted against you.
Just logged on to check something?
Well, you didn’t put in 8 hours!
yes, I've done this, but only when the situation really needed the input that only I could provide at the time. Afterthe fact we documebted and trained others.
One Christmas day we had an outage and I ended up working at least 6 hours and missed the family gathering.
That's the worst of it in 24 years
Can barely get ahold of people when they aren't on vacation. Not buying these comments.
Many don’t work a full shift on scheduled work days. This widespread abuse led to RTO.
All the time.
Happens all the time. Never worked anywhere else where that was normal.
I've taken calls from home and responded to emails. That stopped the second they announced 5xRTO was coming. Can't wait to hand in my notice now. Our team doesn't have enough people as it is. Sorry not sorry to those who will be left.
Used to. Not anymore
Yes. Happens almost every time...