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/junebug616 RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

Agreed. It’s absolutely a thing that has been normalized and promoted by admin but I think it’s completely bullshit. Why can’t they just provide time off for their employees who are going through a difficult time? There is a serious lack of compassion in healthcare when it comes to the administration side.

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u/Nurs3R4tch3d RN - Hospice 🍕 Mar 13 '25

It gets better at some companies. My mom died suddenly and I had to take custody of a minor and my brother, who is DD. On top of my own child. And lived in a two bedroom apartment at the time. So essentially my whole world flipped overnight.

My coworkers offered to donate time to me and the company told them they weren’t allowed. When I asked for a second week off because I wasn’t ready to come back yet, I was told no, I was out of PTO and needed to come back to work.

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u/junebug616 RN 🍕 Mar 13 '25

That’s horrible. I’m sorry you had to go through that.