Who ARE these guys?

Not all companies will let you amass PTO like that anymore. Most now has a annual use it or lose it deadline with limited carry over into the next year. Anything over the carry over limit each year you lose it.

Definitely not young enough to know everything anymore. But I can still dominate at the bingo hall and line dancing.

OK--so yesterday afternoon, I decided to take a walk around town. I try to walk a few miles each day, and this was just another "walk in the park."

As I walked down Main Street past Veterans Park (could it be more small town America?) I note a young woman walking towards me on the sidwalk. She's quite short, and her abundant black hair (possible a wig) is parted right down the middle and hangs down in voluminous straight tresses ala Morticia Adams. Heavy black eye makeup, a ring through her nose and another through her lower lip. Black lipstick. She's wearing tight black jeans, a black long-sleeved t-shirt, and a black leather vest over that. And, of course, Doc Martens.

Quite a look, I think to myself.

As she gets closer, she looks up at me, gives me a big smile and says, "I like your outfit."

So yes, I am old. So old. I smiled at her and thanked her, and walked away chuckling.

What was I wearing, you might ask?

An old pair of blue jeans, a sweater my father-in-law gave me fifteen years ago, and hiking boots. Obviously, it's quite a look, too!

Not to be nosey but is that banked or is that yearly? Or maybe you live Europe.

I use to be able to bank vacation to 240 but they took that away because they wanted a better bond rating when taking loans and having that amount of vacation built up for the employees looked bad (liability) on the books.

The reason the city of San Diego finally stopped that and went to use it it lose it was they woke up to department directors retiring with years of pto to get cashed out at their directors salary; having started accumulating from when they were raking lawns in the parks.

Municipal money games abound. One that may still exist is the lifetime pension if a 20 year NYPD cop isn’t based on salary, it’s based on the last twelve months total pay. So the routine that last year, already at peak pay, is disappear from your family for infinite amounts of overtime; getting shifts from everyone in your circle. Easily doubling the payout for the rest of their lives. Join the force at 22, out in the twenty, 42 to say 82… their pension costs long ago exceeded their active personal costs.