When the new policy was announced –
YES, I knew their real motivation was to get the liability off the books….
YES, I knew they just made layoffs cheaper with this move ….
YES, I knew this was NOT some altruistic thing done for our benefit…
But it’s also an opportunity …
I have wanted to travel to see my parents for years - and have my kids see where I grew up – but they live across the country. It would require a two –week window, which I never had.
Now I have that flexibility and I’m going to actually TAKE that two-week vacation this summer …before my kids are grown and gone and scattered to the four winds, and when I’m too old and broken down anyway.
I am NOT concerned about taking less vacation than my peers to earn useless points.
Chances are – we will all be replaced by cheap labor anyway, and what good will those “brownie points“ be then?
Yes – I could have used the “cash hoard” that was my vacation balance as “layoff insurance”, but life is short… and I could use the flexibility for extra family time even more …Life it too short.
I can now take a day here and there to chaperone my kids school field trips or take a day to fish or ski a handful of times…and not worry about draining my vacation balance, or bean counter managers making sure I have recorded every last hour.
In other words – I advise everyone to make lemonade out of this big fat lemon we have been given….If there’s something you’ve wanted to do –take the time and DO IT. Oracle put this in place to cook the books – but it has the side- effect of being potentially beneficial to us.