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I honestly could care less about the “resentment”. I’m taking my vacation.
This is a general corporate America question. Most corporations are like that. Actually, even some governmental organizations are like that. America has an overwork problem, and they’re proud of it and see you as weak if you don’t participate. In other countries, lawyers gladly take 4 weeks+ off plus paid holidays, and nobody bats an eye. No emails are answered (not at American firms overseas but at the European firms)
I take all I’m entitled to and then a little bit more if I can afford the unpaid version. Taking 3 weeks this year
I work in biglaw at a firm that has “unlimited PTO” for salaried employees (i.e., lawyers). I tend to take 3 weeks a year, though not all at once.
I don’t understand how salaried legal professionals must “request” time off. It’s very arcane and antithetical to being a salaried professional employee. I just tell folks when I plan to be out. 🤷♀️
I work at a medium sized ID firm and do the same thing. As long as I’m on track billables and project-wise, I take all I can. Our “unlimited PTO” is done with an assumption you’ll take three weeks. If I can get away with more, great. But I don’t ask, I just tell.
All of it because I'm a fed and that's what a I get in exchange for lower pay
I have four weeks, and I try to take every bit of it. Never received any push back,but also have made myself available if needed.
I use all 4 of my weeks. I had a fabulous boss in the past who gave this advice:
Think of your PTO as part of your compensation package (b/c it is). You wouldn’t decline part of your salary, right? So don’t forego taking the PTO that is given.
What I’ve also learned is to not feel bad for taking it! Everyone is replaceable at their workplace and if you find that you’re the single point of failure, that’s a red flag.
We get about 23 days. Ngl, I don’t use it all—though I should—and, since remote work, I tend to say, “I’m taking tom off” or “I’m taking a half day” at the last min bc I know I’ll be free of deadlines. Surprisingly, I’ve been encouraged to use PTO more. My work schedule just makes it so damn hard. The last time I was out of the country on “vaca,” I had to take an unplanned/unexpected call from a high fed gov atty… I was at a pool party out of the country. They said it was urgent and did not care about the music in the background 😂 I worked in my hotel room the rest of the day and the following, livid. It seems fire drills wait for my vaca days. I’m not in big law so it’s hard to get coverage on things. Smh. Send help.
Pre-kids, 4-6 weeks, usually a 2 week span in December, a 2 week vacation and then random days off here and there. I'm a fed though so, burning leave is stupid and discouraged as pointless.
My first boss after passing the bar told me “you better take a vacation before you start because you won’t be taking one the first year that you’re here.” He wasn’t lying and I should have taken that red flag for what it was and ran away so fast. I ended up taking a week of vacation the entire two years at that firm. I didn’t fly home to see family for thanksgiving or Christmas during that job. I billed on thanksgiving twice and Christmas once.
Normalize taking vacations and don’t let people make you feel guilty about it. You aren’t a machine or a robot. You need time off.