Originally Posted by
Steve Crewdog
Let me pour some water in the kool-aid being served here and dilute the brainwashing. Just a refresher about how it USED to be before the 95 hour concession:
-You have 200 hours of sick time.
-Every month you get 5 hours added to your sick bank. In 6 months you accumulate 30 hours. You now have 230 hours in your sick bank.
-Just to keep the math simple, suppose you trip trade and have 3 trips, each worth 30 hours, so you have a 90 hour PTC/LPV.
-It's a beautiful day, you're going through a speedbump in life and don't want to go to work. You need a mental health day.
-You call in sick for your next trip. Your PTC is now 90, your LPV is 60. Your sick bank is deducted by 30 hours and is now 200 hours again.
-Tanned, fit, rested, feeling better becaue you took a mental health sick day, the same value trip on a different day come open.
-You pick up the 30 hour trip. Your PTC is now 120 hours. Your LPV is 90.
I apologize, I misspoke. I was using your example to explain how it works now. You'd get paid 95 hours after picking up the above trip and the other 25 hours go back into your sick bank, so you'd be back at 225. If you then picked up another trip that paid 10 hours, 5 would go to your sick bank to finish paying back what you used, and the other 5 would be paid out, bringing you to 100 hours.
Above 95 hours you have to pay back your sick bank before getting paid additional. I'm not advocating or judging, just trying to clarify how that works.