[chaoticmass]

At least where I have worked, the attitude is your PTO is yours and you can use it for whatever you want, no questions asked. How can an employer be mad for an employee using the PTO they were given? It's Personal time off.

-- edit, I know it's actually "Paid time off"

[ghaff]

It used to be much more common for there to be a separate pool of paid "sick time" that was supposed to be used for medical reasons only. The thinking was presumably that an employee shouldn't have to cancel their vacation because they had the misfortune to come down with a bad case of the flu for a week.