Pto Expanded: Fill & Download for Free

On low idle, a lot of diesel motors will not produce enough heat to a) fully expand the metals to seal mating surfaces and b) to fully burn the fuelThis causes what is called “wet stacking", where the unburnt fuel exits through the exhaust. It may also wash off the film of oil on the cylinders and may cause liner damage. Fuel may also dilute the crankcase oilI avoid idling my diesels, and have a provision for high idle on all of them if I have to (battery protection or low power pto)

Absolutely. My husband is military so we move every 2–3 years and I hate being out of work so the last time we moved I took the first job I was offered which was a great job with great people but the commute was over 1.5 hours one way most days due to tourist traffic. Six months later, I was considering looking for a new job but hadn't applied anywhere yet when I got a call from a law office (I'm a paralegal) not even 10 minutes from my house.The office manager said she came across my resume on Indeed and they were looking to expand their company and add a new paralegal to their team. She wanted me to interview and I figured it wouldn't hurt to go.The interview was pretty standard. I met with the attorney and the office manager. I was told they would start me out at a lower pay for the first 90 days but once I got through the probationary period they would pay me $3/hr more. It was more than I was currently making. They also stated they gave employees a week of PTO as an added benefit. They offered me the job and I told them my only condition was that I would need to take an entire week off when my husband came back from his deployment and they promised it wouldn't be an issue.The only red flag at the interview was that they said they were hiring 3 new paralegals to “expand" but the offices they showed me had obviously been used and recently.The week I started I discovered they weren't “expanding” as they had told me, twice. Their entire staff had quit except for the office manager. I have worked at a few law offices and knew right away this was bad news.Instead of giving me one of their open offices the office manager said since I had the least amount of experience, I would be sitting at the secretary's desk and doing secretarial duties as well. Initially, I thought that meant I would have an easier workload. No. I had the same workload as the other paralegals with the added secretarial duties, which doesn't make sense in terms of experience, but I could handle it.After the 3 of us passed our 90 days, we never received a pay raise. In fact, another month passed before one of the other ladies brought it up to me and we decided to ask about it. We brought it to the office manager's attention and she said, “that was never the deal.” When we told her that was odd, since all three of us had been told about a pay raise in our interviews she responded, “well, did you get that in writing?” I said, “you were there in all of our interviews. You won't vouch to our boss that we were promised a pay raise?” She shrugged and said, “always get these things in writing.” Immediately, one of the other ladies grabbed her things and quit. I was considering doing the same thing when the office manager called a meeting and said we would be receiving our pay raises. It was still another month before it came into effect.It came time for my husband to come home from deployment and I filled out my request form to take a week off and it was denied. “You can't take an entire week off. Your week of PTO is meant for a day here or a day there. Think of it as sick leave.” At this point, a lot had happened and I had reached my tolerance level so I reminded them that I was promised a full week off in my interview and they could give it to me or I could quit. “Fine, you can take the week off but you're going to regret it.” It was still a month away but the attorney and office manager worked my fingers to the bone. They had me doing months worth of work to be able to take a week off. I thought this was what they meant by me regretting it. No, it got worse.As fate would have it, my husband and I got pregnant with our first the week he came home. I filled out the proper paperwork to be able to go to my first appointment. The appointment was first thing in the morning so I was just going to be an hour late to work. My paperwork was denied. “Your PTO is the only time you can take off” is what was written on my denial notice. The office manager said, “I told you you'd regret taking that week off.” I told her that didn't make sense. We were hourly employees, not salary. I would understand concerns for getting work done if someone was constantly taking off but I had taken a week off 2 months prior to this and I'd taken no other time off in the 6 months I had worked there. I wasn't allowed to come in an hour late? Inevitably, I told her I was pregnant. I told her I was mad that I even had to tell her before I told my family but that was what I needed the time off for. She approved my paperwork but called a meeting where she “let it slip” to the rest of the staff that I was pregnant later that day.All of this was on top of the office manager being obsessed with us liking her even though she did the things she did. She had a daughter that worked at the office on and off who was absolutely intolerable. She got work done but she was the rudest person I've ever come across in my career. She screamed at clients, she screamed at us, she screamed at outside sources we relied on for medical records and information. Her daughter was literally out of control. They announced that the daughter was coming to work for good and I knew immediately I wasn't staying much longer.The Office Manager pulled me into her office shortly after that announcement (a couple weeks or so) for one of her weekly, “you seem like you're mad at me, what did I do?” chats and this time I told her it wasn't going to work out. I made up some story about the workload being too stressful while I was pregnant. Truthfully, I had come home mad everyday for weeks over the stupidity and my husband told me to just quit whenever I was ready and it put a bug in my ear that came out in that moment. I went home thinking I was going to regret it so much but I never felt anything but peace about the situation. I had another paralegal job making more money and working from home about 3 weeks later. My only regret was staying there so long.

At first I stayed because upper management liked me. I saved a brand from certain death, and a few VPs stood up for me when I made controversial changes. The president and CEO didn’t think my brand would survive anyway, but other VPs all wanted a say. Having at least two VPs who had my back really meant a lot to me.That being said, I knew it wasn’t a positive place. It was chaotic and depressing, but I could make it work. Plus I wanted the devil I did know rather than the devil I didn’t know. I found my groove and went with it.When the company was bought out and merged with another company, I tried to make it work. I knew within the first few months that the chaotic workplace had turned toxic. My physical health declined as the demands increased. The only reason I stayed so long was because we wanted to buy a new house, and I needed that job to secure the mortgage. The moment we moved, I started to look for a new job.The problem is that I found that looking for a new job after leaving a toxic environment each night was impossible. I was belittled, overwhelmed, overworked, and had so little self-confidence that updating my resume was a joke. It was like an abusive relationship with the company - it kept beating me down, telling me I was worthless and no one else would want me, but then every now and then telling me I was okay enough.Thankfully, I found an incredible opportunity and was offered a position. I jumped on it! Despite having been at that company for six years, there was no going away party. No one really even said “good bye” other than my friends who were left behind (and laid off two weeks later). I stuck it out with the merged company for seven long months, but I should have left after one.The first two months at the new office were great. The new company was (and still is) fantastic. It’s as far from a toxic environment as you can get. There’s no gossip and everyone really just supports each other.That being said, the first two months were brutal for me.I carried a sort of PTSD from the last company for about a year after starting at the new company. Every time the founders would have a private meeting, I would assume I would be fired. I felt I wasn’t good enough to be in such a great position. It was hard to just relax.The worst of it was my health. I had been stressed for so long, and when I finally started to stop being in a constant state of stress, my body and a lower immune response opened the door to major illnesses. Now, two years later, I get sick about once or twice a year. Back then when I started it was more like at least twice a month.The good news is that the stress and anxiety of the last company did eventually fade. I love this new company, and I especially love the complete lack of stress and anything toxic. For example, praises are a daily occurrence by everyone in the office, not just the founders. They are very mindful of not overloading any employee with too much work and expand departments as needed.Another example: Before I would get to work at 6:30 AM, skip lunch, work until 3:00 PM to pick up my kids, work remotely from 4:00 PM–6:00 PM, have a little dinner with the family, and finish the day working from 7:00 PM–11:00 PM. Most weekends I would dedicate about 10–15 hours to extra work, too. It wasn’t that I was inefficient; it was that my workload just continued to pile as they laid more people off.Now in the new company, I can get in when I need to, usually around 9 AM or so. If I need to take a longer lunch, it’s fine. No questions are asked. Usually I leave around 4:30 PM or 5:00 PM and rarely boot up the laptop to work in the evenings. When my husband had to be rushed to the ER, they not only told me to leave, but they told me to leave my computer. They also checked on my husband to make sure he was okay.My last example (of many) is PTO. At the last company, I never really had PTO. I had to work through it all. Even when I moved with approved PTO and no access to a laptop, I was still asked to come in to work.Now PTO is unlimited and respected, so no one really contacts me when I’m out of the office other than asking if I’m having fun and relaxing. I’m taking three weeks off at the end of the year, and again, everyone was more excited to hear about the vacation than worried about the work.The result is a better office environment, happier employers, and incredible productivity. I wish I would have left the last company earlier, but had I done that, I would have missed this opportunity to work where I do now.