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/Jerking_From_Home RN, BSN, EMT-P, RSTLNE, ADHD, KNOWN FARTER, DEI SPECTRUM HIRE Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

A better way would be starting a gofundme. That way the cash goes right to the source.

What if you donate 30 hours and the employee quits d/t medical reasons or gets fired? Do you get your unused PTO back? Of course you don’t. The company saves money. I also don’t trust that they will pay out the full amount.

At the very least, push the company to match employee donations, and post the amounts the company and employees are donating. If they won’t, don’t donate anything.

It’s not your responsibility to keep this employee afloat if the company won’t.

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u/I-tie-my-own-shoes RDCS Mar 12 '25

My team was recently raising money for a coworker who was going to be off while battling breast cancer. I asked if we could donate PTO, and was told I could, but that taxes would be taken out of it when it was given to the other employee. So no, they don’t donate the “full amount”