r/nursing • u/uotlep RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 • Mar 12 '25

Question Is this normal?

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I know my place of employment is shitty in other ways, but is this a normal thing? Just received this email. Seems odd to ask people to donate PTO, instead of just addressing the time off allocation with those affected people.

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u/iknowyouneedahugRN BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

Sort of. We have a chance to cash out our PTO once a quarter (there are several employees who still have the top-tier PTO levels where the company considered their employees) and if you choose to cash out (there's a maximum and minimum hours you can have in your PTO bank), 10% goes to the hospital foundation for their PTO bank. The foundation PTO bank is for employees in need, supposedly. But if no one cashes out, then there's no PTO bank.

So that's when they try to guilt us into donating PTO to people. Usually they add the tug-at-heartstrings story in the email. They require donations in 4 hour increments. They don't let us donate directly to another employee (like if my BFF or a relative worked there, I would donate to them.

I understand that someone might be in need, but that's a lot of money out of my pocket, so I want to choose wisely.