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I'm a school bus driver in the US. Not only do we not get unlimited PTO, even for our paid holidays we don't get paid for them unless we show up for the workdays before and after the paid holidays. This is so that we don't attempt to stretch the long weekend that a Friday or Monday holiday provides by taking extra sick days before or after. I was a programmer most of my working life and I never encountered any time-off like this, but the other drivers say this is common in "blue-collar" jobs.
TBF our bosses have absolutely no flexibility in terms of the work that has to be done. A bus route needs to be covered or else 100 kids don't make it to school. We have standby drivers but not an unlimited number of them. The day after the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl, about a third of our drivers called in "sick" and the transportation director had no choice but to cancel multiple routes. I was more pissed at our drivers than she was -- we're almost all in our 60s and 70s (and a few are in their 80s) and have no business drinking ourselves into massive hangovers. I'm actually surprised nobody died.