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True but it would be funny to actually use those terms in your time-off request.
by djmips 5y ago
True but it would be funny to actually use those terms in your time-off request.
- reaperducer 5y 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 5y ago"P."?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- vaidhy 5y agoPersonal as in PTO is personal time off
- jakeva 5y agoWhere I work the P in PTO means "paid"
- xeromal 5y agoPretty sure it's Paid Time Off at least here in the US
- reaperducer 5y 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 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off?wprov=sfla1
- reaperducer 5y 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 5y agoAh, just making sure you meant your company and not the US. Glad we reached an agreement.
- dragonwriter 5y 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 5y 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 5y agoI assume it's the Pi day.
- mnw21cam 5y agoPlease Turn Over? (I'm guessing you mean Private Time Off?)
- welfare 5y 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...