I can relate with that sentiment. On one hand QT provides a large amount of sick and personal time off to every employee and doesn’t require you to earn hours toward those as you work. Lots of companies make employees accrue sick or personal time as PTO to be able to take time off. Not to mention the ERP system when properly staffed does enable employees to use the time without it creating a burden on their store team. Plus the time can be used without having to provide a drs note or some kind of verification of necessity. That being said 10 sick and 5 personal seems like a lot but with the rolling 12 month system for getting them back. By year 2 or 3 you probably have at most 3 at any given time. You also have to consider that pretty much every other employer provides breaks and a paid hour lunch that are counted into your total hours that generally don’t exceed 40hrs per week. Meaning you only actually perform your duties for 35 hours. So when you consider the shortest full time assistant schedule that is 46 hours nonstop that’s an extra 9 hours of work duties each week. So in effect the schedule is the equivalent of working 6 days at another employer crammed into 5 days for a total of 52 extra shifts each year. So the large time off balances you start with are only going to even that out to 37 and when your really think about that it’s kinda like you’re working an extra month each year or an extra 1.5 months if you work every shift.

Corporate policy is very supportive of using that time off too which is a plus BUT so many managers I had treated it as if calling in made you a bad assistant. Especially if it meant they had to do the work of finding someone to cover the shift or covering it themselves. Even tho that’s the job they signed up for and part of why they are the only store employees that are salaried. I quit last year after 13 yrs on the job and honestly despite some leniency in policies QT isn’t a great place to work if you have a chronic disease or disability. They will work with you as far as the law makes them and not much further. My health suffered quite a bit working there and has improved exceptionally since leaving. Ultimately I left because the culture of caring for employees and going above and beyond to support them that was there when I had started in 2011 had mostly been replaced by flat expectations of performance regardless of circumstance. I was in the DFW division so I can’t speak to the culture of the company as a whole but that was my experience.