I am really upset with the new PTO. I mean who TF thinks that rolling all medical time into one time is good idea? On top of that such people suggested and executed such s&$&ty policy. On average you have 3 dentist 2-3 medical and about 4-5 sick days per year. So increase of 3 days in return for 5-6 days is unjustified. Is there any way one could oppose such tyrannical policy ?
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Legacy APC here...thank you OXY for finally doing something right. “Unlimited” sick time only encourages people to lie. cough cough I’m sick on a Friday. Or a Monday. Again. Let me do what I please with my PTO. 120 hours is plenty to roll over. Take some days off. Get away from the office. Travel with the family and get away.
As a legacy APC person who was around when APC converted from a more traditional system to the current system, I can tell you that there was A LOT consternation when the change was first rolled out. However, in the end, it seems like everyone was very happy with it and I don't recall too many complaints with it after everyone experienced how it works in action.
Legacy APC uses this PTO system. But for all categories, it's about 5 days more on average.
And the skivers don't like the new policy....surprise...surprise!
A sick person should not have to worry about cutting into vacation time. I will expect this policy to encourage sick (or not fully recovered) employees back to work just to save their time off. This will make others sick and worse cause accidents/distracted employees at workplace. Of course this will not change anything in policy.
From the way I read the email, I will get roughly an additional 40 hours of PTO time versus the original Oxy vacation policy. This gives you roughly 5 days (though a bit weird due to how days at 9 hours with a 9/80 schedule). Under the old policy, I used 27 hours (3 days) of the "unlimited sick time".
One thing to point out on doctor visits. You do not have to burn a full day (9 hours) for a visit. Plan your work time around your appointment. Either go into the office after the visit or go to work before the appointment. That way you only use 1 or 2 hours of PTO instead. Also, depended on your manager, they may just tell you to leave and not worry about it.
I say the biggest drawback is the reduction in rollover time to 120 hours a year. The old cap was 296. I started the year with a little over 200 hours. Guess I'll need to start taking more vacation time.
@ Boomer original poster here. I am merely pointing that the new policy reduces the benefit of time off days for some unfortunate employees with family. Out of state employees with no support of family members have to struggle to run to all the doctor appointments and it’s more frequent than lot of people think. Most dentists and doctors don’t offer Friday or appointments after 4 pm in real world.
This policy basically ensures those employees that they don’t deserve any time off to wind down. I am not opposed to change as long as it doesn’t hurt my existing benefits.
Doctors are increasingly not offering Friday appointments. Also when you care for a parent or a child, you’ve pretty much used every Friday off to take yourself or someone else to an appointment.
Oxy is one of those id–t corporations with mo–nic benefits. To the person who said you get every other Friday off obviously you are a nobody at the company or you don’t even work here. The area I work our schedule is 8 on 6 off. Some are 5&5 others 7&7 it just depends where you are at and what you are doing. Honestly the best thing you can do is voice your opinion in a professional manner. You are not alone and if they get enough negative feedback then maybe things will change. We do have HR reps for more than one reason. But then again they might tell you to kick rocks since all these changes are coming due to Vicky’s great Anadarko deal. Just be glad your office didn’t get shut down.
Ladies and gentleman, the typical Oxy maturity level and tantrum employee, Boomer.
Ummm....It's Oxy.
You expecting something intelligent, fair or ethical?
You could quit. That would show them.