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For someone who recently lost a mother and still have a badly injured father. This is totally understandable regardless whether he is a CEO of Uber. For a reg
by xbeta 9y ago
For someone who recently lost a mother and still have a badly injured father. This is totally understandable regardless whether he is a CEO of Uber. For a regular employee, he could request for a sabbatical. But as a CEO, that's difficult given there is no CFO, CMO, COO existed.
- MikeTheGreat 9y agoWhat do you mean by 'sabbatical'? What is this, and how do regular, salaried employees get this?
- nerfhammer 9y agoIt's not unusual for BigCos to have a leave of absence policy for regular employees.
- EpicEng 9y agoI've seen "regular, salaried employees" take sabbaticals for personal reasons more than once. Beyond that, comparing a CEO to a typical employee is ridiculous. You may not like it, but yes, they're viewed as more important by the board and a CEO is more important 99.9% of the time. Devs don't make life or death business decisions and set the cultural tone for the entire company.
- bastawhiz 9y agoMost companies in SV tend to have, in addition to paid maternal/paternal leave, the option to take unpaid leave. I have many friends and colleagues who have taken advantage of this for a variety of reasons. It's really not that uncommon.
- smileysteve 9y agoIt's implicit that as long as your company is hiring your position you can take unpaid leave; the outlier is paid sabbatical.
- smileysteve 9y agoOh, and you're at least on par with expected performance.
- Spooky23 9y agoDepends on the company. One colleague was able to use sick time at half pay to care for a terminally ill relative. Some companies allow leave without pay.
- aetherson 9y agoThe FMLA should allow any qualifying employee (has worked there for a year, 50 or more employees at the company) to take job-protected 12 weeks of leave per year to care for a terminally ill nuclear-family relative.
- jdavis703 9y agoAnd don't people without "nuclear" family wind up subsidizing this scheme? Not everyone has family, or if they do their family may not be capable or interested in caring for them or vice-versa.
- rosser 9y agoFMLA leave is unpaid leave; anything beyond that is an employer's choice, and/or on the employee to be paying their short-term disability premiums, and claim it. It also covers taking leave to deal with the employee's own illness. How are you "subsidizing" that? EDIT: phrasing.
- jdavis703 9y agoSomeone generally has to put in the extra work caused by an absence.
- rosser 9y agoI am reminded of nothing so much as Christopher Hitchens' quip about Libertarianism: "I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough." If someone is taking FMLA, the overwhelming likelihood is that they or someone they love is dying (or the opposite: they have a brand-new kid). You're worried about working a little bit harder. Some perspective might be warranted.
- randyrand 9y agoGenerally CEOs and low level employees have different perks. You'll also find many companies have different policies. The best course of action is to ask your employer!
- kelnos 9y agoIt must be nice to have the money and power to be able to do this. When my mother passed, I missed the first couple weeks of classes and then returned to college (and had a ton of work to catch up on). When my father passed, I took a couple weeks off and then went back to work. I imagine a lot of people wouldn't even have that flexibility.