Best ways to utilize vacation time in a bad scenario
Hi All, First time poster here.
I have been with my current employer for almost 5 years now. In many different roles stretching between operations, logistics, and accounting. I hardly take vacations , in fact I never have taken what many of you to probably think of as a vacation. No exotic trips or anything like that. I only ever take days off when I know they will be removed from my vacation hours balance if I don't use them. because of this at this point in time I have 200 Hours of Vacation and 80 hours of sick time.
Due to recent leadership changes, the infancy of my latest role, and a not so stellar performance by me, the org has significantly demoted me and the new role I am being applied to will begin sometime this June. I of course fought this as I saw fit but can only do and say so much to defend myself. After I received this news I decided I will not accept this and quit. I am applying for roles and working with a recruiter to find a better fit for me at a different company.
At this point in my career I don't care about not putting in a two week notice. Ideal scenario would be that I work one day, don't go back and then 35 days later (280 work hours) they finally stop paying me. I then go back to turn in laptop and keys and then I am out of there for good.
My questions to the reddit community are;
How can I best go about using my vacation and sick time? If I try and use it all as one lump sum it would be 35 days. This will of course not be approved. Our policy indicates that IF I put in a two week notice, then I am entitled to 40 hours of my vacation time as a payout, no sick time and not the other 160 hours of Vacay.
If I am hired for another role with a different company and am somehow able to get a large chuck of time approved can I work at the new place and continue using vacation/ sick time with my current employer? (I am especially considered if there are legal consequences for using sick time and then working with another employer)
I suspect they likely know that I am looking for other jobs but I can only speculate. Does anyone have any tips/tricks to have my request more likely to be approved?
At this point in my career I don't care about not putting in a two week notice. Ideal scenario would be I work one day don't go back and then 35 days later they finally stop paying me. I go back to tun in laptop and keys and then I am out of there for good.
Has anyone else been faced with a similar issue?
Thank you in advance,