Salaried were given our vacation information today. It’s not good! I predict an exit for greener pastures which shouldn’t be hard to find.
Ask your salaried management 😏
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Ambassadors, it is finally time for us to speak up, not on this site but in person. Voice your displeasure to your leaders, senior leaders, park presidents and even the new CEO. Let him know what is going on from our perspective. He’s new, perhaps he can make the change before the new year starts.
It’s especially disgraceful for many of us who have worked so hard and have been dedicated to the company for years—even having to defend it year after year.
This is how we get rewarded, by taking time well earned, away from us and giving salaried employees unlimited vacation.
But of course the naysayers will say we’re “lucky to have a job”. Yes we are, but no other company would take away time off from their employees.
If they want to change the vacation/PTO policy that’s fine. Leave it on an accrual basis but do not take days away from us.
Please, let your voices be heard. Don’t taking this lying down.
The final purge of experienced employees has begun. This plan is designed for one thing - eliminate long-term staff to eliminate their cost to the organization. To earn the benefits you exchanged for 15-20+ years of your life, you have to work 52 weeks to accrue the time you've "earned." Any use of PTO during the year does not accrue PTO hours so it is mathematically impossible for you to ever accrue all your earned time to use it. All those years of dedication; all the hours of sweat equity working in outrageous heat and long hours; all the time away from family and friends for holidays and redline; all the mismanagement by leaders and eliminarion of communication from corporate and parks; all the layoffs and eliminations of positions that impacted dear friends and created more work for everyone - it's all come down to this final "F$&k you" who remained.
10 year employee-I heard everything gets lumped together as PTO and you lose 5 optional floating days. And the PTO is accrued every month. You will not get it as the beginning of the year starting 2021.
What does a 10+ year employee with 160 Vacation, 120 Optional Holiday, and 48 Sick receive now for 2020?
The next time I hear "work life balance" from someone in finance or leadership I am going to laugh in their face.
Nothing says balance while taking your time away.
UNION!!!
So basically by taking away one week of optionals next year for every hourly employee you are getting your benefit package AKA your salary reduced by 2% next year because you will have to work an extra week to make your same salary. And if your tenure with the company is over 20 years next year you will receive a 4% pay reduction and the following year if your tenure is 15 or 20 years 2021 will see an overall reduction of your salary by 4% or 6% respectively when they take away the additional week of vacation... Definitely does not make you feel valued as an experienced employee.
New plan is too complicated. They should put everyone on unlimited.
Anyone know what the full time vacation policy might be ? Or will it be the same as salary ?
Vacation sell back will be an option for 1 more year only for those who sold back in 2019. Gone for everyone by 2021. Also, not a normal sell back, there will be a 'transition plan', but dont know specifics
What about the use of vacation hours to help with benefits cost? Is that still an option??
You can thank Ross for this too.He cares nothing about the employees, only his deep pockets and this was one more way to line them.
Vacation and sick into 1 bucket: now PTO that is accrued based on hours worked. For 2020 cap on max accrual is at 15 years of service (effectively a loss of 5 days for the 20+ yr employees). For 2121 max accrual at 10 years of service (loss of 10 days from this year for 20+ yr employees).
Still get Optional holidays at start of year, but reduced from 15 to 10.
The part they seem to be skirting around is the accruals are based on hours worked, not hours paid. This means if you take a week off using pto, you will not accrue time for that week. Effectively, unless you work overtime or don't use pto, you will never earn your stated allotment.
Lots of talk ,but no details? How about explaining the vacation change or maybe you are making it up?
So the park upper management and corporate that made this vacation policy gave themselves unlimited while we lose weeks and have you heard one of them explain it to you as “not that bad” or “industry standard “? So does that mean they are also going to raise our salaries to industry standards? Deep down I feel like it is their way of getting the long time employees to leave on their own and not have to pay out a severance package as vacation was the last benefit that kept so many working here doing so much more with so much less. It’s sad to see what they have done to this company and the loyal employees that work here. Praying for Karma