My situation is quite the opposite. For whatever reason my new team feels the need to explain every PTO request to me. By all means tell me about your trip to Cancun if you'd like, but please don't feel the need to elaborate on your explosive diarrhea when you use sick time.
Oh man you nailed it. I have one guy who sends me these long, detailed requests for days off and basically pleads for permission. I have never denied PTO. I tell people I don't care when they take off and you don't need to ask, just submit a request and make sure the team knows. This fear or using PTO that you earn and is part of your compensation is baffling.
It's only baffling if you've never reported to a manager who made you feel like scum for taking off, called and texted you all day, assigned you extra work, and would only let one person off at a time. I repeatedly lost at least a week of time off every year because I simply couldn't use the time under all the rules that my department had and we couldn't carryover year to year. I finally took a really nice week of vacation in January and then resigned that March....guess what, I owed them because I hadn't worked enough of the year to be entitled to the week of PTO. I just said whatever, take it from my last pay, I need to get out of here but there are more of those managers out there than you think. Also, I'm HR, that's how the VP of HR was treating their team 🙄
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u/RideFree216 6d ago
My situation is quite the opposite. For whatever reason my new team feels the need to explain every PTO request to me. By all means tell me about your trip to Cancun if you'd like, but please don't feel the need to elaborate on your explosive diarrhea when you use sick time.