Where else do you start at zero hours of PTO at the beginning of the year and can't roll it over at the end? Wtf?
Anyone know if micro focus operates the same way?
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It is not Capitalism - it is called Total Corruption of CEO and TOP MANAGEMENT practices and leanest laws where they can get away with this.
@ObuWKTP-aice, sharing the same centiment. Amazing the "corporate" trolls lurking/snooping around this forum to preach how wonderful this company is.. chances are they are part of HR or leadership, they thrive on WFRs to save their own As$$.. can't wait when they become one of the WFR casualty themselves...
Sorry, not 21wk. Meant for 4yfs, clearly a corporate apologist.
Gfy 21wk
This post is hilarious. First of all, you may start off at zero in the bank, but you can take days off and have a negative balance while you accrue, so what's the problem? The zero in the bank doesn't keep you from doing vacations. Second, you get unlimited sick leave, so that's not an issue. Third, CA has its own rules, so ignore them. Fourth, this is pretty common and HPE didn't start it. Fifth, you are not "forced" to take PTO during shutdown. You can take some or all days unpaid... but what do you expect? The company shuts down, and all of you whining saps should still get paid for sitting at home (although granted customers don't notice a difference).
If you get laid off and you are "in the hole" (you took off time in January, laid off in February), they dock you.
If you get laid off in August, and you saved all (or most) of your vacation... Like for mandatory vacation during the Xmas-etc. Holidays... Then you do NOT get paid for un-used vacation (unless you live in a selected few states of the USA, including California).
Heads they win, tails you lose! Completely typical of HPE...
"Huh? All your PTO for the year is available on Jan 1"
This is false. You start at zero.
I've taken days off in january for 2 years now and ended up in negative PTO, had to crawl back to zero and had accrued 1 week by mid July.
PATHETIC.
Huh? All your PTO for the year is available on Jan 1 (go ahead and take that two-week winter vacation if you want). However, that assumes you'll be there the full year, so if you aren't and you've spent more than you've accrued, they'll dock the difference from your final pay.
No rollover is a PITA -- forget about planning a longer vacation unless you do it off the books with your manager.
HPE doesn't have unlimited vacation. Perhaps you are speaking of DXC.
Vacation accrual and pay out of unused vacation on exit are determined by state rules in the US. e.g. California allows a certain amount of carryover into next year (accrual stops when limit is reached) and a full pay out of unused vacation time when you leave the company.
HPE has adopted a lot of employee unfriendly policies overall, but this does not appear to be one of them.
Cost-saving to get that stock up right? Wtf happened to caring about employees?
Pure capitalism needs to die or morph into a hybrid model
Several companies have implemented this "Unlimited vacation" policy as a cost-saving measure. HPE isn't the first.
Not to mention they force you to take PTO during the company holiday shutdown period. Idiotic
Kinda like they'd just like you to go away ....