#pto

I was laid off waited for the severance PTO bonus all that jazz and I couldn’t be happier. I am officially retired. I can now enjoy my life without all the Wells Fargo drama between Social Security 401(k) and other investments. I’m making more than I did at Wells Fargo I’ve been in many engineering jobs And Wells Fargo is nothing but a joke. I am really glad to be gone.

Reddit said PRTO is being capped at 80 hours next year

I have a very trusted connection to a manager who is connected to a SVP in North TX and there is another RIF coming up mid-late Nov. Each time they have told me it’s been true so I’m guessing this next one is as well. I don’t have specifics but it’s a good number of people. If you have any PTO beyond 40 hours use it up cuz they won’t pay you for it. If you get past this one plan on applying for a new job. I don’t know how they can keep cutting so many and still function. I wonder if the C-suite gets wind of sites like this and reads the impact and disgust people have for them. People just want to work and make a difference and get a paycheck to live. Not get all involved in drama but here we are loving our teams but hating corp. it’s sad.

Does anyone know what changes we can expect come January? PTO, insurance, 401k match? When the remaining 1000 layoffs will happen?

What a terrific company. I love the unlimited PTO and all the tools available to drive our career ambitions.

If you feel like there’s going to be a lay-off on a particular day, take PTO for that day. They can’t legally lay off someone on PTO, so they’d just add a different name that isn’t out that day to do that.

I was wondering if anyone who joined Oracle before 2018 and were on the accrued vacation hours system before the switch to Flex PTO, is aware that Oracle deducts accrued vacation hours each year during the company-wide Winter Break.

What this means is over time, any vacation hours saved up before 2018 would eventually go down to zero — and employees leaving the company now wouldn’t receive a payout for those previously accrued hours.

For those who joined after 2018, their Winter Breaks are fully covered without any deduction (because there's nothing to deduct). I’m curious if others have noticed the same.

What do you think about the new PTO policy. 80 hours of protected PTO for sick time, the remainder for personal time off. The total PTO remains the same. Effectively reducing personal time off to as little as zero or 40 hours (5 days) for newer hires.

Requested severance a year ago and was denied. Started plan to quiet quit and leave in a year. Had 6.5 weeks pto that i used to drag out projects and be gone during critical times. They tried to get me to RTO. I gave them a doctor's note that had reqmts they could not meet so i stayed remote. I ended up implementing 1 CR before leaving this fall.
It was the easiest year i had ever worked while making other arrangements for myself.

Think strategically for yourself and plan ahead and remember you owe them NOTHING.

Heard several say 4 hrs PTO don't count as day in, but I've also heard from others it does. In the same umbrella! Is it truly mgr discretion? Mgr site says it counts. Wondering what others think or have been told Btw.. no problem going into office

I don't understand if this is a good change, or bad.

My understanding: We will get 7 days for PTO in event of illness and the STD starts on Day 8. That is 26 weeks. Then no unpaid extended leave, correct?

What would be the underlying cause of such changes?

Everyone ready for the big changes coming for benefits? Going to be ugly with rates going way up, less PTO and freezing of the pension. RTW 50% of the time effective June 01, 2026. 2026 is the year I leave SF!

I’m using up PTO next week Monday through Friday and here’s why you should too. It’s been proven that if you’re OOO during layoffs you don’t get laid off. They cannot lay you off when you come back because the lay offs need to happen on that date they’re scheduled for. If they don’t happen on that date because you’re OOO then they won’t happen at all. It skips you!

Hi - i’m just wondering if anyone knows when we will get paid out our vacation days. There’s no way my vacation days were paid off for my seemingly last pay check I just received. Can we expect it with our severance or is this another kind of pay check we are getting? Sorry this is my first experience ever with this. Also have a baby on the way and am needing everything I can get from them that is mine.

Also, it's state specific

Was informed by manager we need to adjust our in office days when there is a bank holiday or we use pto to still be in office 3 days. Asked HR via chat and was informed this is correct and there is a new article that can be found through the myhr web page. "Workforce strategy guide". Looking through the faq there is a clear question regarding making up holidays/pto and the answer is a clear no you do not have to make up time spent on vacation or out of office for bank holidays. When hr is giving mixed answers what the cr-p are we suppose to do? I want to follow the rules but not be je-ked around by management.

I have noticed that paying for the balance of remaining days off is something that they do not like
If you remember there was a strange shutdown in the middle of the year that they forced on us before doing that monster LR like an year ago.

It is highly probable that they will again do it in Jan/Fen and not in Nov.
Any thoughts ?

What happens if I’m on PTO the day they do layoffs? Will they call me on my personal phone, or wait until I’m back in office the next week?

My manager informed us that you will be penalized for taking PTO halfway through the day and leaving early since it will count as a day in office where you spent less than 8 hours.

This company really needs to get its act together and send out official information about this tracking. Nobody knows what the he-l is going on

Just when youthink HCSC can’t go any lower it does!! 😱😱😱 if you are mid professional and have been at HCSC under five years and live in Illinois good for you, you get three extra days a year. But for those that live in Texas and other states, you don’t!! I guess HCSC couldn’t level up the field of PTO to make it right.

Terrible…
Less benefits…
Less PTOs…
Sweat shoppish management …
Job cuts…
No diversity and that means not a single American in any layer above me or even around me…

Ohh wait that was the similar in ELV IT too.

IT had layers and layers are Indians. Several of them totally not competent by far. Speak English in a weird way with disregard and disrespect to grammar, pronunciation and several times etiquettes. And worst they keep hiring Indians ONLY. How? They bring cheap -ss Indians as contractors and then convert them. Companies like UST are partners in that crime.

They don’t even want to engage with white Americans nor do they want you around. They keep talking to each other in their mambo jambo local language and keep warming smelly food in the kitchen.

yeah damn it, this happening in USA.. not in Bangaladore.

Most deep dive analyst are now predicting bankruptcy as soon as 2026. Even with stock going so low nobody will buy the company.
Get what you can out of the pension fund now.
The cuts were just a show, most were at or near retirement age.
With no raises and flex PTO and no 401K match in 2026 is a sure sign of bankruptcy planning.

What's the rule for this or just point me where to look as I am unable to locate the information? I was planning to leave anyway but I'd rather take severance and my PTO.

Should we try to use up PTO now before this potential October 28th date? What is everyone’s plan for their accrued PTO?

New PTO changes -

Most employees will not see any changes to their PTO accrual minimums or PSWD carryover maximums, and no employee will have fewer PTO or PSWD as a result of this change.  

· Illinois- and Nevada-based employees will have higher minimum PTO accruals (from 80 hours minimum to 104), while employees in California, Colorado, and Montana will have higher minimum PTO accruals (from 80 hours to 104) and higher PTO carryover maximums (up to 216 hours).  

So a big - 🖕🖕🖕🖕 we don’t think you’re worthy Texas folks.

Does four hours PTO still count as an in office day?

Do you know the rule? Cannot locate it anywhere?

Has anyone ( specifically grades 22-24) found a better job outside of the company? Or one that at least pays the same amount you were getting paid here and given as much PTO?

Please explain an actual reason to work for this company besides a paycheck?
PTO and healthcare is offered at most
jobs for the same rate, same holidays off and more if not the same amount of PTO and paid sick days.
So why should people be loyal? Why get mad when some of us are choosing to stay because we’re actually good at our job and the job market su-ks? Trust, the moment the job market improves I will leave and find better but again with 2k people applying to the same position kinda hard to go where you want.

Do we keep our vacation time and PTO is flex or is all paid time off flex starting next year?

Does anyone know how the keystroke and activity monitoring reporting is going to work with PTO? If it’s taking an average does it not consider when you are on PTO (so not working that day/several days)?

I hate the sound of it. In theory it is unlimited PTO. In reality you could be passive aggressive marginalized for taking PTO. I’d rather have my fixed number of days I can take with impunity.

They are taking personal days away as of Jan 1. We will only have accrued PTO and I doubt they will add to our PTO to make up for some of that loss.

If you live near an office and go in above and beyond the three days 8 hours a day requirement- say working a half day in office on day 4 - this will actually hurt you. The calculation is looking at average hours in office per day so a half day will lower your average. So there's no point in going in unless you plan to spend the full day

Additionally,if you take a half day PTO and then go in the office the second half of that day, this will also hurt your average. A half day of PTO is considered a full day in office so do not go in beyond that.

Its a combination of badge swipes and connection to office network.

Average is currently calculated on a 4 week basis but the intention is to ramp up to a 13 week average.

Who supports a day of protest. On Oct 30th, lets get as many employees as possible to take the day off across the world.

Vacation policy updated effective 1/1/26. Xerox going to the dreaded unlimited* time off policy.

• Absolutely limited and now we don't have to payout unused vacation time upon severance or overworking you.

If this is documented in Teamworks or somewhere else, let me know, but does 4 hours of PTO still count as a day in the office? And if we take 4 hours on two separate days during the week, does that count as two days in the office?

FBS is over with now, so it'll get busy up until the week before TG holiday, then I use 3-4 weeks (or whatever is left, which is usually about 4 weeks) of PTO and take every Monday and Friday off the rest of the year.

My medical exmption RTO ends in November so, 3 days in for 2 hours each, then 1 day in the rest of the year after TG!

YAAAAS QUEEN, SLAY!

I'm just trying to verify paid pto because at this point I don't trust anything.....

4 hr pto will be still considered as in office day ?