Employee refuses to donate his PTO to a stranger in the office regardless of judgement from HR, colleagues, and his boss: 'I don't know Jennifer, maybe said hi twice'

A PTO shortage could be solved with the simple pen stroke of an empathetic boss.

Vacation time is a nebulous concept that companies haven't quite gotten right yet. Like the implied value of cash, PTO hours accumulate based on hours worked, but with its entire value being materialized by the office ladies in HR, couldn't a company just as easily conjure up a few more fake hours for an employee in need? You'd think, but the corporate world doesn't work like that.

Instead, this employee was guilt-tripped by his entire office to help contribute PTO hours to a coworker in need. After an undisclosed life event, this coworker was in "desperate need" of 80 PTO hours that she didn't have accumulated. Instead of taking the time unpaid, HR insisted that she send out an email blast to the whole company, essentially begging them to donate their PTO. Strangely, the workforce pitched in to her made-up donation box, moving around PTO hours like they were pieces on a chessboard. The boss loved that he wasnt going to be losing any workers to wasteful vacations, but one employee saw right through the ruse.

He refused to donate his PTO hours because, despite a surplus in his employee profile, he wanted to use those hard-earned hours for himself, not a coworker he's never even spoken to. Understandably, he was quite furious when his colleagues turned against him, calling him out in meetings and even scheduling a 1-on-1 meeting with the big boss, but he stood his ground. Hoping to shed light on a broken system, and to keep his hours for his next summer beach trip.

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If you've ever worked in a big office before, you know that there are some faces you see in the parking lot that you'll never see again in the workplace. Like ants moving around an ant hill, you can't expect every single bug to have a personal relationship with every other bug. Employees get to know their team, their department, and the CEO, and that's usually about it. So when Jennifer from some other department was begging for PTO hours from the entire company, this man put his foot down and adamantly refused. She was a stranger to him and would remain so. Why would he spend his hard-earned vacation time on a random?
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