Accenture required to use PTO if not chargeable last week of the year... thought my PTO was "hard earned"... other firms with similar policies?

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K2, I think less people would be complaining if they made it effective next year, instead of giving us a 2 weeks notice. In my example, I already accounted for all my PTO days for my wedding + honeymoon

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As someone who left ACN and got paid out my PTO, this equates to ACN asking you for a cash donation to help their books. If you think it's no big deal to take a pay cut for one paycheck or to make a donation to the firm, then 2 or 3 or 5 days of forced PTO doesn't matter.

It's strategic that they do this instead of reducing your bonus or comp because, as you see on FB, people flip shit about every % of their bonus, but you're "acting entitled" if you complain about PTO.

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Nope. Not doing it.

A- you can’t force people to take PTO.
B- you can’t force people to use PTO to take time off for a holiday they don’t celebrate
C- if accenture wants to shut down for the whole week, then they should give that to us as our vacation days
D- you especially can’t give no fucking 1 week notice. You socialize the policy and put it in place at least a year in advance

Fuck outta here with that bullshit

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Cathy giveth and Julie taketh

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Was planning on taking the week off anyways but sending out a firm wide mandate 2 weeks beforehand is really off-putting

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Been at the firm 6 years, it’s always been “recommended” this is the first time I’ve seen it be “required”.

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Yes EY1.... duh.

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No we were given that week off as holidays by the firm!

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What were you gonna do instead, just "work from home" (read: fuck around and watch tv all day) for a week?

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Bullshit. I'm already taking a bunch of days up until the 26th and now I have to take off three more with not enough notice to do anything with them. Impossible to get behind this company, but they apparently have no problem getting behind me.

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K2 🖕🏽

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As a new joiner to CDO, I get 16 days of PTO per year. Forcing me to take 3 days leaves me with less than two weeks for the rest of the year, not happening.... I’d rather charge it to unassigned and hurt my chargeability than do that shit

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So offices are closed but I have to use PTO? WTH Julie?

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It's only an issue if you don't have real work to do. I'd suggest spend time to help a proposal, get staffed, or quit whining like a young millennial and take some fucking time off

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Jesus, Accenture folks, grow some maturity here. If you’re on the bench, why are you on it? I’ve been with the firm for 9 years and never hit the bench. If you don’t have a full days honest work, work a half day and charge half to pto.

Working means you’re doing something valuable. It’s not Julie’s job to have something for you to do every minute of every day. It’s your job to get on projects or do something of value. Watching YouTube with your thumb up your butt and charging bench time is bullshit.

Drop the entitlement and be realistic. If you have a real issue and don’t have a supervisor, talk with your CC about it.

And for the wedding person, talk to your CC if you don’t have a supervisor. If you get staffed between now and then, talk with your project about getting some comp time or something.

TL;DR - out on your big person pants and stop whining. We are lucky fuckers to be employed making good money with decent benefits

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McK has similar policy, we have to use 3 PTO days during office closure in the end of year.

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Such bullshit. Two weeks notice of that isn’t fair and if it is required, then how about just giving two extra days

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Thanks for providing insight P1 where you clearly have a lack of information. Accenture isn't putting their foot down and making sure we have time off on the holidays. If you're chargeable you're still working. If you're on the bench and saving up days for your honeymoon, go screw, you're gonna take them now with two weeks' notice.

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M2- even if you’re on client, the client is off so they tell you to not use chargeable code. Let’s be real they should fucking let us use the code because even though client is off, we’ve probably worked more than those 3 extra days of hours during busy times at the client

Ugh the bullshit 😑 🙄

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