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Re:Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known by ryanwaggoner on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:49PM (#16244565)
Actually, average salary worker with one year experience in America averages 11 days. With five years experience, 15 days. So it seems unlikely that only 10% give 20 days. Almost 20% of the US workforce is employed by Federal, state, and local governments, which tend to give a bit more vacation than industry, I believe.

Regardless, we’re talking about SV, so whether it’s an anomaly is irrelevant.

Source: https://www.thebalance.com/how-much-vacation-time-and-pay-do...

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Re:Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known by Spooky23 on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:00PM (#16244601)
That’s PTO, which isn’t vacation.
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Re:Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known by jimmywanger on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:33AM (#16245006)
What's the difference? They're paying you for time you're not working, and if you quit, they have to pay you out the accumulated PTO.
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Re:Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known by dragonwriter on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:39AM (#16245018)
> What's the difference?

"PTO" or "annual leave" typically is either a combined pool used for both vacation and sick leave purposes, or, when used to compare across employers, compares what is offered as either PTO/annual leave by name, or the sum of separate vacation and sick leave.

So, no, its not the same as vacation.

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Re:Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known by jimmywanger on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:34AM (#16245256)
I think it's a matter of semantics. My current employer refers to it as PTO (as in "schedule your PTO and clear it with your manager") but we still have extra sick days.

The main difference is that PTO (or vacation days) accrue whereas sick days don't.

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Re:Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known by Spooky23 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @04:20PM (#16248122)
Usually that combines vacation, sick and personal time, at s net loss to the employee.
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