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I take time when I need it and it’s not PTO, I do enough and meet my metrics.
And I just mark it as busy, with my calendar showing free/busy.
I also live in Europe where we have half decent workers rights so none of this ever really comes up. If some MD is going to leave me to chair a meeting whilst he takes his kid to school, I’ll happily take time to do what I need to do.
Just mark it private. The appt shows blocked on your calendar with no visible details.
As a GenX, I make an appointment for myself, schedule 15-30 minutes on either end for travel, and likely make up the time the same day. I bill by the hour though, so if you ask for 40 hours of billability, I will cover the 40 in the week, and then the 10-15 of overhead that I wind up with... I have no shame in saying I'm not available for 2 hours, and neither should you. This job takes crazy hours some days (and that 40 billable may be another 20), so when I need to go to the RMV, or get my teeth cleaned, or talk to the plumber - I'm going to schedule it into my week and you can all schedule me later. The beauty of post-covid life is that we aren't 100% tied to an office. The cell phone and pager before it let your boss invade your 7:00 dinner time for an overseas conference call. Feel no remorse when life needs to take it's claim on your work schedule.
I block it off as “Personal Appointment.” As long as your work is getting done and you tell your teammates you’ll be out for a bit and will return, you should be fine. Within team chats I have usually been able to say where I actually have to go, but I acknowledge some teams may have people less capable of being adults.
And do you consider this pto or just make up the hours later
You can mark it as private, and make up the hours as needed elsewhere.
For where I am at, if it isn’t going to be an all day thing, I just block out the times as busy. If I did have to label it, then it would be something vague like personal. Wouldn’t consider it PTO, again where I am at, can’t speak to what your company expects.