48-year-old turned down a VP job with a 25% raise, but only 10 days of PTO: ‘It sets a precedent for what the company values'
Carpineto, 48, is currently a senior director of operations for a health-care company and lives in Boston. Over her 20-year-plus career, she's learned it's important to her to have strong boundaries around paid time off.Carpineto was already in a job she enjoyed when a recruiter reached out to her to interview for a top-level operations role at a new company. She was curious and accepted the invite.
Managing time off around the school year for her two sons, now 12 and 15, could easily take up all those paid days off, she thought. And that wouldn't leave wiggle room for unexpected illnesses or other time off needs. "To me, as a mom of two boys, being able to have that flexibility of more than 10 days off an entire year was important to me and my family at that point," she says.Carpineto says she tried to negotiate for more paid days off – she was used to a minimum of 15 days per year from previous jobs. She even tried to negotiate her contract to include an allowance of one to two weeks of unpaid time off if needed, which the company also declined.