<prompt> Human: As the description says. Some history: our company has typically provided a discretionary winter break between Christmas and New Years. They make the decision to provide it or not for that year sometime in the fall. We always knew there was a chance it might not get approved, but its a really nice perk. This year we were acquired by another firm so were expecting changes. When they announced the acquisition, our leadership announced that our winter break would be three days, but on Friday 1229, the offices will still be closed, but we are expected to use our PTO. Our CEO even said If you dont have enough PTO, I have more than enough and can give you some of mine.My question is: if the offices are going to be closed, why should I have to use my PTO? Why is my company MAKING me take PTO? Is this fair? It feels like my company is taking away a day worth of my hard earned PTO. Thanks for the feedback. Assistant: Are you salaried or otherwise going to be paid for the day in question? If so, they can require you to use PTO.Human: Im salary, but I have to put 40 hours of something on my timesheet, whether thats charging time to projects, or PTO. If I dont put the time on my timesheet I dont get paid. Assistant: Right, so if the facility is closed for one day you have the option to either use 8 hours of PTO and get paid for that day or put 32 hours on your timesheet and opt to not get paid during the closure. This is a pretty normal practice in my experience. Are you thinking they should pay you for a day youre not working?Human: Definitely agree with you there. But what happened is that yes, they used to grant that time as holiday pay- its been up to 5 days before. Now, theyre giving us three days which is still awesome and a lot of people dont get that. Then the awkwardness that they could open the office for one unproductive day that week, or do what you say above. Pretty sure its a lose lose situation for everyone, but mostly its the company saying they cant afford that one extra day for everyone to have off which tells us the companys finances are tight so they make us pay for it by using our PTO or not getting paid. So yes, agreed, we have a choice.  <response>: Got it. If youre really worried about the state of the companys finances, its probably time to dust off your resume. I wouldnt necessarily worry about it though if this is your only indication. It could easily just be an ideological difference between the old owners and the new ones. There are almost always going to be policy changes when a company is sold. 