Work Question

WatchPot · October 2011

Do you take PTO or a sick day if you have a doctors appointment?

Doese your company have a policy on doctors appointment or personal appointments that require you to be away from work multiple times a week or month?

preston18 · October 2011

When I was pg and had a lot of appts, I'd schedule as late as possible and head out at 4:30. I was in DT Bellevue and my OB was at Overlake so it was easy. Even NSTs at the end were lunch time deals.

Nowadays, I still schedule as late as possible or do lunchtime if my appt is near downtown. If it's an appt for N, I might work form home. I'm salaried so unless it's a 4+ hours, no need for PTO. As long as my deadlines are met, I can do work on my sofa at 2am or int he office at 2pm.

Maddimom · October 2011

When I was working I would have to make up any time I missed or use PTO.

mertense · October 2011

I only have sick time so that is what I take. I'm a teacher so I guess they assume my summer is my PTO! I try to get my appointments as late as I can since it is a pain to make sub plans. I can take exchange time, after school is out, if I need to leave 10-15 minutes early.

kristalovesjared · October 2011

When I was working and pg, I worked at a very small office (6 employees). We had paid sick days, but could only use them with a dr.'s note, so I just used my paid sick days for appt days (usually took a half day) and by the end of pregnancy I'd used them all up.

cwhip77 · October 2011

I think I took PTO time if I had to have it during work hours. I had my days off during the week though so that wasn't hard to schedule on those days. In general my work gives us 4 hours of medical appointment time to use for when we have to do appointments during work hours. When I was pregnant though I never got dinged for any time off for that kind of stuff, it was always excused if it was related to my pregnancy.

Alli923 · October 2011

I never took vacation or sick time for appts. I worked a billion effing hours every week anyway, so there was no way they could say I wasn't putting in my time. I just made sure to schedule around any mtgs or presentations. When I had to have some tests done which required bedrest after, then I took sick time.

doublem · October 2011

preston18:
When I was pg and had a lot of appts, I'd schedule as late as possible and head out at 4:30.

This. Since I teach, my school is also pretty flexible about letting me take appointments during the day if my lunch is back-to-back with my planning time (while my class was with another teacher and I knew I could be back on time). Otherwise it really depends on the length of the appointment - if it's just going to make me late for work by 30 minutes, they'll usually find a way to cover for me and not take it out of PTO/sick time. If it's going to take half a day, then it counts as sick time or PTO, depending on what I choose.

Nancy_Drew · October 2011

I don't take them either. Having a flexible schedule and working from home (unless traveling) has it's perks. But it's more than made up for when I'm not home for an entire week)

WatchPot · October 2011

Thanks ladies. I have an employee who has had an appointment at least once a week since sept 6th. I'm trying to decide if I should ask her to take a PTO day for it. She leaves at like 2:30 or 3 to go to these appointments so it's not the end of the world but it is annoying me. Sometimes she'll tell me what it's for and others she doesn't. She said Friday she can't go to a meeting and needs me to cover this week because she has an doctors appointment and needs to leave at 3 pm.

jennlin · October 2011

for the most part i've just been flexing my time. i take later in the day appts (1:30 or 2:00 is at late as my dr will go), and i work a little extra the days before the appt and just leave early on appt day.

if there's a policy about being gone a certain amount of time, nobody has told me about it!

dosafyre · October 2011

I always made my appts super early, then would work later to make up any working hours I missed (office was fine with some flex hours). If it was a longer test during the day that I couldn't control scheduling for (u/s for example or glucose tolerance)...I totally had to take PTO hours.

kaskade · October 2011

My work is pretty strict- you take a couple hours of sick leave or you make up the hours that same day. But we have to be accountable to taxpayers....so no jetting out early or anything. We can't flex hours outside of a day, so no working eight hours one day and twelve the next. [Which blows, as they used to allow that - no more dangit!] Oh, and I should note I typically work ten hour shifts.

I would usually just tack on the time at the end of my shift that I missed. I always made morning appts as I am always afraid of running late, and most clinics seem more on time in the mornings. If I was really tired, then I would burn that as sick time and leave at my normal time.

stacylu · October 2011

I took an hour or two of sick time for my OB appts. I don't know what the official policy was/is but my boss was fine with me doing that. We have a super flexible office though.

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