[sls]

I've never turned down a request for PTO from someone who had some, including at a company with "unlimited" vacation. I don't see why my priorities about what one should do with their free time should apply to others. And if it were ever a problem that a person wasn't fulfilling their role adequately, it doesn't really matter why as long as we can get on a remediation plan.

[ticmasta]

PTO is purely discretionary; I've never turned down a request.

Lately I've been dealing with a lot of "can I work remote while I go visit my girlfriend for a week" or "I need an entire sick day to go to the chiropractor"... it gets old because my more senior devs do not make life so painful.

[Mystrl]

That's sounds pretty reasonable as long as they get their work done? Someone on my team went remote for a quarter for personal reasons and this was at a giant 40 year old company.

[pseudalopex]

Does your company not allow remote? The first request sounds entirely reasonable unless they really mean pretending to work.

[Xelbair]

all of that sounds reasonable?

what's not reasonable about working remotely? I mean as long as the work is done an they are available in their normal hours?

Same thing about doctor visit - it is their sick day, they can decide what they want to use it on.

[lostjohnny]

> what's not reasonable about working remotely?

security.

You are going around with company secret data.

You are moving them outside of the company network, which is heavily controlled.

Not all businesses thinks it's ok to put data on Amazon S3.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you, but they have their reason, the most important of them is "things have worked until now because we do the things as we do them, what if we change and things don't work anymore"?

Fear of change is a real thing in big established businesses.

[rhinoceraptor]

That would only make sense if people were primarily using desktops, which really is not the case except for high end workstation needs like video production.

Every company I've worked for, people are using laptops and bringing them home at night, so I am very skeptical that this is the reason.