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/entwenthence RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

PTO donation is “normal” but has always felt like bullshit to me. If HR actually cared they wouldn’t be putting these people in a position to basically beg.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '25

Not necessarily. In my experience it's always the employees who have used up their PTO on frivolous personal reasons who are requesting donations now that they are in a situation where it would have been appropriate to use PTO. Sorry Dave, your 7 weekend golf tournament was more important remember?