Thought this was interesting - Timeshare Contest

[dioxide45]

Pledge to Use All Your 2025 PTO For a Chance to Win 4 Weeks of Vacations in All-Suite Resorts Plus $10,000​

MSN

 

[sponger76]

Sounds good! I'd enter, but all my trips and PTO are all planned out with stays reserved through the time frame to use the prize.

 

[JONC777]

Pledge to Use All Your 2025 PTO For a Chance to Win 4 Weeks of Vacations in All-Suite Resorts Plus $10,000​

MSN

I get 7 weeks of vacation and have 11 weeks of travel planned this year I dont know id want the stress of 4 more weeks off hahaha

 

[MonicaOnVacation]

Pledge to Use All Your 2025 PTO For a Chance to Win 4 Weeks of Vacations in All-Suite Resorts Plus $10,000​

MSN

thanks for sharing my article!

 

[TUGBrian]

Appears this program is being run by ARDA, they reached out to request it posted here but it was already taken care of =)

direct link to the signup form (though please read Monica's article too!)

ARDA Sharing Time Off Contest

ARDA Sharing Time Off Contest

gotimesharing.com

 

[wmgjr]

Pledge to Use All Your 2025 PTO For a Chance to Win 4 Weeks of Vacations in All-Suite Resorts Plus $10,000​

MSN

They plan on firing ppl.
Oh it's from ARDA
Thought it was from a company lol

 

[TolmiePeak]

Pledge to Use All Your 2025 PTO For a Chance to Win 4 Weeks of Vacations in All-Suite Resorts Plus $10,000​

MSN

If you are working making YouTube videos does that count as time off?

 

[Sugarcubesea]

I get 8 weeks of PTO per year and can barely use it all up, but I give it a good run for its money....

 

[JudiZ]

My husband has, if you can believe it, unlimited PTO and a sabbatical he hasn't taken yet. Now, granted, if he suddenly started taking weeks and weeks, his boss would think he was seriously ill or worse. She calls him every few months and demands he take some time off. Given that I am a retired teacher, this is a wonderful "problem" to have. I hope whoever wins this has a ball. 4 weeks and $10,000 for expenses could go a good long way. As far as ARDA, I guess this is their quest for legitimacy and/or rebranding as "good guys."

 

[Blues]

I get 8 weeks of PTO per year and can barely use it all up, but I give it a good run for its money....

Yeah, before I retired, I got: 6 weeks vacation, 11 paid holidays (10 fixed, one float), plus (let me recall) 4 weeks, or was it 6, of sick time. The latter you were expected to only take if you were actually sick (or other sanctioned reason -- pregnancy/childbirth, death in the family, family care). So nobody used all their sick time. But still, quite a liberal policy (for the US, anyway). And yes, I managed to use it, mostly

 

[dioxide45]

My husband has, if you can believe it, unlimited PTO and a sabbatical he hasn't taken yet. Now, granted, if he suddenly started taking weeks and weeks, his boss would think he was seriously ill or worse. She calls him every few months and demands he take some time off. Given that I am a retired teacher, this is a wonderful "problem" to have. I hope whoever wins this has a ball. 4 weeks and $10,000 for expenses could go a good long way. As far as ARDA, I guess this is their quest for legitimacy and/or rebranding as "good guys."

Best I can tell, unlimited PTO is basically a scam. Studies have shown that people tend to take less time off when they have unlimited PTO than if they have a set number of days. Perhaps that is why some companies like it. Nothing is really unlimited.

 

[Larry M]

Yeah, before I retired, I got: 6 weeks vacation, 11 paid holidays (10 fixed, one float), plus (let me recall) 4 weeks, or was it 6, of sick time. The latter you were expected to only take if you were actually sick (or other sanctioned reason -- pregnancy/childbirth, death in the family, family care). So nobody used all their sick time. But still, quite a liberal policy (for the US, anyway). And yes, I managed to use it, mostly

I had a plan that liberal, too. They can cause the company's books to look bad. Unused vacation buildup appears on the books as a liability. And when you've earned some weeks at $2000 and now your weekly salary is $3000, it's a liability that keeps growing. Ultimately (This was back in the mid 90s), IBM had to require employees to take all their annual vacation and two weeks of unused vacation each year until the unused vacation was used up.

 

[geist1223]

Where we worked before retirement you could only accumulate up to 280 Hours of Vacation. Any excess hours on the Book at Midnight December 31 disappeared. It always amazed Patti and I how many people lost vacation time every year. We did not. My last couple years I worked at having 280 Hours on the Books. On last day this was paid off in a final pay check. Sick time had ho limitations on accumulation.

 

[dioxide45]

I think vacation accrual is one reason some companies have gone to unlimited PTO. There is no accrual that has to sit on the books. For those that had lots of vacation accrual, were you in union jobs or were these jobs many years ago. Where I work, we have very limited accrual. They let some time off accrue during covid, but it pretty much had to be used in the first 120 days of the next year. The only vacation that may be paid out when you leave the company is any accrued vacation since the beginning of the year minus any you've taken. If you've taken more than you accrued, then they deduct that from your final pay.

 

[jmhpsu93]

I get like six weeks a year plus nine or so holidays, use-it-or-lose-it policy minus 40 hours for rollover. It's a pretty generous policy and I work from home, so even better.