'I had over 80 hours of PTO': Employee gives notice, loses all their PTO

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    Font - Lost all my PTO. I will never give notice again. I worked for a large US big box retailer in their corporate IT department. Was with them for just over 2 years. I worked my ass off and was a complete yes man. Did everything they asked. Our department was severely affected by the pandemic. We lost all of our overseas team (hundreds of employees) who we relied on quite a bit. This resulted in myself and other colleagues taking later night shifts and working overtime to the point of burnout.
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    Font - During this time I had received a raise each year for roughly around $1 each time and a few meager bonuses which weren't worth it after taxes. During this time, the company was reporting over a 200% increase in profits. They never missed a chance to brag about it in meetings. Yet they refused to share the wealth with those of us who had taken on 3x the workload. Fast forward to this year. I received a job offer to start out as a first year apprentice in a trade job with a Union which woul
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    Font - I had over 80+ hours of PTO that I had earned/ accrued with my company. I gave them my 2 weeks notice as curtesy and asked if I could be payed out for my remaining PTO balance. They denied me and told me It would be forfeit. In the state I worked, they are not legally obligated to pay me for it. I tried to dispute it. Told HR and my Manager how loyal I have been to them and that I did the right thing by giving them notice. It made no difference, they didn't care. So long story short, I le
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    Font - Tiger_Striped Queen Always use your PTO during the year if you aren't in a Union that will fight to get it for you. I've seen this happen to many times. 44.9k Share
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    Font - Zestyclose_Walrus 725 Blows my mind that accrued PTO in America can just not be paid out. That would be highly illegal in most other countries. Assuming they have denied your payout before your 2 weeks is up - I hope you stop showing up to work? Certainly wouldn't be going in to finish my time. 1.6k Share
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    Font - Pleasant_Author_6100 A company does not care about you. You are only a number producing revenues. Nothing more, but possibly even less. Don't give a company more than 100%. Every thing else will bring you to an early grave and you will be replaced without second thought. Stay strong and recover. Take your mental health always first. Edit: holy shit thanks for the star award. Never thought this blows up so hard. I am stunned 7.4k Share
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    Font - warriorofinternets Ouch! My coworker and I were both planning on quitting and we disagreed what the company does after you give notice. I said they'd just let you go immediately and wouldn't payout pto, he said that he heard they paid out pto. I took two weeks vacation and gave my notice. He saved his pto and gave notice. He didn't get paid out for a single pto hour. 1.2k Share
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    Font - lankist Rescind your notice and quit immediately. If they don't owe you 2 weeks PTO, you don't owe them 2 weeks notice. 5.6k Share 3.3k ... ohhhhhboyyy Not this- call in sick everyday until PTO is exhausted, then don't show up. You earned it, use it. Share
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    Font - lexissslashay Do they have a written policy on it? My bf went through the same thing but he found their own policy that specifically stated that leaving without notice affected rehire but said nothing about paying out PTO. Only then did they pay it out. ↑ 265 Share

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