Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "Tell Me What It's Like To Work In America Without Actually Telling - American Reacts" video.

  1. Never an issue, even going to the boss at lunch time to ask about leaving in a half hour as I have a delivery arriving at home at 3PM. Approved instantly, he knows I will make up time in the next days. Time not even recorded as absent. In fact have had 127 days accumulated annual leave, and as it is not possible under law to have it cashed out, even when I asked to do half as cash I was forced by company to schedule two holidays in the next year, took 1 month, and later that year another 1 1/2 months, using around 56 days. The following year I had to apply again at request of my manager, and again scheduled 1 1/2 months 7 months ahead, except that as a work crisis developed nearing the due holiday, my manager insisted I did not apply for any leave so told me no, I can not leave on holiday, as I was critical to solving the crisis. I did acknowledge the need, and did not go on leave. Interesting was I had even checked 2 months before that he had lodged the leave form with Human Resources dept, which he stated was being done at that time. WELL, it came to haunt him, as Human Resources manager contacted him, as among some paperwork he lodged during my intended holiday, the application for my leave was also passed on. They wanted to clarify why the leave application was lodged after I was on leave, not earlier. I was also contacted, when he said I was not able to go on leave due to work commitments. It became a huge issue as the actual demand for me to reduce my still over 80 days accumulated leave was driven by Human Resources. I was asked to take leave immediately which I refused, as the timing of the trip no longer lined up with the intended activities. Quite some back and forth arguing, and I took 2 months the next year. Some 10 years later still had 65 days owed at retiring. Also we get 4 weeks , 20 days, "Long Service" leave at every 5 years after the first 5 years. Having been with the company 40 1/2 years, I had some 160 days long service, plus 65 days annual accumulated leave, plus remaining 8 days sick leave so on retiring had 233 days full pay cashed out . That plus a retiring bonus of 3 months, in that case a 90 days amount. Now a working year is only from memory is only 212 working days given 365days, less weekends and holidays. I had over 1 1/2 years full pay on retiring, sadly as all paid in the one year, hit by higher tax rate, still I managed to live on that money for near 3 years, though effectively continued earning as I was asked to be available on casual terms, $60/hr, and did mostly 2 days, 16hrs, a week until stopped by COVID in March 2020. By the way while always entitled to 8 days sick leave, in those 40 1/2 years, I used about 6 days of which about 3 were time taken for personal reasons rather than sick, as only over 2 days need to have medical certificate, so many use their sick entitlement, as single days to attend to personal matters.
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