I accumulate annual leave at a certain number of hours/week and after one has accumulated 480 hours, you lose any leave until you bring the balance under 480.

I’d take 3hrs of leave a week to keep just under 480, and it would just bug my boss that someone would need/want to do that.

The solution is silly.

So, he heads over to HR to explain the situation.

They tell him the official policy is that leave is to be taken in full day increments. They also tell him that we shouldn’t be changing our timesheets to reflect the hours worked (since we’re all salary), so just go ahead and approve them as is, unless we have holiday to put down.

He says the idea behind this is that since we’re salary, the company knows well have heavy weeks and lighter weeks and it’ll be a wash in the end.

So I’ve been losing my 3 hours of leave a week, but I haven’t worked a full week in months.

But it has some perks.

At most I’ve put in 30 hours. I just try to be efficient with my time to make it work.

Oftentimes, I’ll work for 1 hr and call it a day.

Took a 5 minute work call while on holiday? Thanks for keeping me from burning a full day of leave!

I thought the other way was more honest to the company, but they schooled me on how real business works.

It can be annoying when companies cap how much time off you can accumulate, but it sounds like he found a solution that works for him.

Here is what people are saying on Reddit.

Dilbert is timeless.

I’d prefer this way.

Maybe he likes to do other things during the day on work days.

An important way to look at it.

Don’t live to work! Work to live!

I don’t think I’d mind working there.

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