I’ve been interviewing with allscripts. Is there PTo generous?
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Check out the vacation program for EPIC. They are way better than Allscripts. Their PTO program was featured on TV a couple of days ago. Allscripts program might be considered better if you include wasting time at your desk and phone all day.
I come in an stare at my desk for an hour or two before getting coffee. It looks like I’m working. Another good office strategy is to walk around with a binder full of papers and a notebook. Good exercise. Meanwhile, the customers suffer from c-appy software and hosting.
PTO policy is bad - like so many other cheap companies. Don't plan on working from home either. Boss man don't like it. Strolls around the office, takes names of those out, and writes them up. Then sends out email reminding of the core hours and rules about not working from home. Folks come in sick 'cause they have to use PTO time for sick days. Make everyone else sick too. Stay away.
only "self martyrs" feel like they "have" to work while on PTO. I have been with the company over 14 years. There is NO ONE in this company who is that important that your needed. 24/7 365. You work on your PTO time that is on you. While on PTO Allscripts is no difference then a scammer phone call/email. Don't answer or replay. Do what a few are doing.. working remote, for Allscripts and a new company... perfect setup.... Allscripts sees your numbers decline. they let you go... big deal.. Hell you may even get compensation... Play the game ladies and gents.. play the game...
I am just here for the comments. :)
Some things the questioner should be aware of:
This year, the PTO policy was changed to "make it more like other companies" where PTO is accrued at a painfully slow rate over the course of the year (x amount of PTO hours per pay period where x is based on years of service) rather than have the entire PTO entitlement issued en bloc. My guess is that it would take the average worker four or five months of work to have a 40-hour block of PTO available although you can "borrow" against your estimated yearly total ahead of time. I haven't heard too much grumbling about this policy but I can't imagine anyone with seniority being happy with this.
Unused PTO mostly disappears. You are entitled to carry over up to 40 hours from the prior year, but you have to use that time prior to EOQ Q1 or it disappears.
In most places with the exception of some where it is legally mandated, Allscripts will not pay out PTO hours if they let you go. The two above policies are probably intended to minimize the payroll payout for those that are legally entitled to it by keeping PTO entitlement hours to the bare minimum wherever possible.
Maybe it's just the groups I've worked for, but there should be zero expectation that PTO is going to actually be "time off". I can't think of a single time in the past five years or more where I've taken a week off or something like that and not wound up working part of that time or getting called in or brought on conference calls. You can't shut everything down for any period of time - between emails and phone calls you're expected to work on your "time off" even if you're not officially working.
In my (double-digits) years of working for this company I have never been able to use all of my PTO. While that may be more of an exception than a rule, the groups I have worked for have made it difficult to use all of it. Some of that is exploitation of my work ethic, some of that is unreasonable limitations on when PTO can be used, and some of it is that the workload is often so great that taking any time off would simply put one further behind the eight ball on return. There's certainly any number of people who don't have any problems taking all their time off, but then again there's a lot of slackers in various groups who don't seem to have much to do either. I can't really complain much as it's my own fault that I haven't exercised my rights to PTO under the mistaken belief that I think what I do matters and that someone "up there" cares about my dedication.
As others have alluded, only work at Allscripts if you have no other options. The leadership is beyond horrible and there is no room for growth.
PTO inside the office is pretty good. Come in late and leave early. Better still, don’t come in at all. That seems to work for Managed Services. You can sit at your desk and stare at a screen with nothing really valuable to a client. Later, go to Starbucks and lunch for a couple of hours, and repeat the cycle.
Life is so much better without allscripts in it!
RUN AWAY, as fast as you can. It's a dying company that is using off shore labour to maintain its software. That should be enough of a red flag.
No the PTO is no different then any other company when first starting out. Not bad if you been there awhile... a long while. But issue is trying to find time to use it. many poor leaders require seeral week notice of taking pto or you don't get it. But those same leaders take pto and drinking lunches all the time.