Does Your Fed Job Do This - Manager Waits Until Last Minute to Extend Early Release to Employees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My first Fed job was like this. They'd wait until like 4 to go around in person and say you could leave early, even though some of us got in at 7. If you were in the restroom when they cane by, you just missed out. Terrible place to work for unrelated reasons but this was a symptom.

My current agency and the one before that both give several day's notice and the dismissal is 2 hours early based on whatever your schedule is.

Okay. What arseholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know how maybe a couple of times per year, the agency director will release employees early the Friday or the day before a holiday? At my old job (local government), it was a given that we could take the early leave unless our direct supervisor specifically stated no and I never recalled my supervisor preventing us from taking advantage of the early leave. Furthermore, people still worked through the early leave if they had a deadline and those who didn't have pressing deadlines would take off early.

At my current job, our supervisor insists we cannot leave until he specifically releases us. So if the Director says we can leave at 3:00, our supervisor will wait until 2:30 or 2:45 to say, okay you guys can leave early/log off too. This is a toxic work place for a variety of other reasons and has extremely high turnover but this just seems like the supervisor is on a power trip and wants to seem important.

Does this happen at your job?

Is he doing it because he wants to see your reaction like a kid on Christmas?

A power tripper boss would warn you ots early day so you better buckle down and finish your work early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know how maybe a couple of times per year, the agency director will release employees early the Friday or the day before a holiday? At my old job (local government), it was a given that we could take the early leave unless our direct supervisor specifically stated no and I never recalled my supervisor preventing us from taking advantage of the early leave. Furthermore, people still worked through the early leave if they had a deadline and those who didn't have pressing deadlines would take off early.

At my current job, our supervisor insists we cannot leave until he specifically releases us. So if the Director says we can leave at 3:00, our supervisor will wait until 2:30 or 2:45 to say, okay you guys can leave early/log off too. This is a toxic work place for a variety of other reasons and has extremely high turnover but this just seems like the supervisor is on a power trip and wants to seem important.

Does this happen at your job?

But, as I read it, does it matter? If the director said 3, you can’t leave until anyway, right?

Or maybe it’s that the leave is for two hours before you end time and boss tells you when that it? If a higher up person gave you the ok, do you even need to wait for your boss? I don’t. If there’s something time sensitive, I would of course connect with my boss but otherwise, I just end my day when I’ve done my hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know how maybe a couple of times per year, the agency director will release employees early the Friday or the day before a holiday? At my old job (local government), it was a given that we could take the early leave unless our direct supervisor specifically stated no and I never recalled my supervisor preventing us from taking advantage of the early leave. Furthermore, people still worked through the early leave if they had a deadline and those who didn't have pressing deadlines would take off early.

At my current job, our supervisor insists we cannot leave until he specifically releases us. So if the Director says we can leave at 3:00, our supervisor will wait until 2:30 or 2:45 to say, okay you guys can leave early/log off too. This is a toxic work place for a variety of other reasons and has extremely high turnover but this just seems like the supervisor is on a power trip and wants to seem important.

Does this happen at your job?

Is he doing it because he wants to see your reaction like a kid on Christmas?

A power tripper boss would warn you ots early day so you better buckle down and finish your work early.

This is OP. Our bosses do it for the power trip and they love for us to then thank them profusely because it feeds their egos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know how maybe a couple of times per year, the agency director will release employees early the Friday or the day before a holiday? At my old job (local government), it was a given that we could take the early leave unless our direct supervisor specifically stated no and I never recalled my supervisor preventing us from taking advantage of the early leave. Furthermore, people still worked through the early leave if they had a deadline and those who didn't have pressing deadlines would take off early.

At my current job, our supervisor insists we cannot leave until he specifically releases us. So if the Director says we can leave at 3:00, our supervisor will wait until 2:30 or 2:45 to say, okay you guys can leave early/log off too. This is a toxic work place for a variety of other reasons and has extremely high turnover but this just seems like the supervisor is on a power trip and wants to seem important.

Does this happen at your job?

But, as I read it, does it matter? If the director said 3, you can’t leave until anyway, right?

Or maybe it’s that the leave is for two hours before you end time and boss tells you when that it? If a higher up person gave you the ok, do you even need to wait for your boss? I don’t. If there’s something time sensitive, I would of course connect with my boss but otherwise, I just end my day when I’ve done my hours.

I wish. They've made clear that just because the Director says we can get off early, that they (the supervisors) have to approve it first. So they usually wait until right before and it messes up our time entry - we have to go back in and correct it, especially if the early release day is a Friday.

[Anonymous]

We get a group text from our supervisor the morning of, even if there are rumors the day before.

[Anonymous]

Our agency never does early release.

[Anonymous]

If I get an email from the head of the agency that says take two hours early release, I’m taking it, and I’m not asking first. Let your arsehole bosses cover the office until COB if they don’t want to man up and discuss a plan. No reason for them not to other than being control freaks on power trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I get an email from the head of the agency that says take two hours early release, I’m taking it, and I’m not asking first. Let your arsehole bosses cover the office until COB if they don’t want to man up and discuss a plan. No reason for them not to other than being control freaks on power trips.

This - this is such an easy give away and morale booster for your staff. Why be stingy and make yourself the "second layer" of approval?

[Anonymous]

At my old corporate job the head of my department would send an early release notice out a few hours before EOD. We would never know in advance (for planning purposes if we were traveling) and it was always contingent on your manager okaying it. It was so annoying!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I get an email from the head of the agency that says take two hours early release, I’m taking it, and I’m not asking first. Let your arsehole bosses cover the office until COB if they don’t want to man up and discuss a plan. No reason for them not to other than being control freaks on power trips.

This - this is such an easy give away and morale booster for your staff. Why be stingy and make yourself the "second layer" of approval?

Control. It’s about control.

[Anonymous]

And I'm sure for employees with managers like this there are other signs of toxicity in the workplace. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And I'm sure for employees with managers like this there are other signs of toxicity in the workplace. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

+1

NP here. You said it! The head was a Puppeteer, no one else mattered, only the top "yes" people, everyone else jumped ship.

[Anonymous]

agency head grants two hours, always and only two hours, in email a few days early, because they are usually also asking for early time card submission. sometimes, my boss grants us a spontaneous additional 59 minutes the morning of.

[Anonymous]

Just depends on the appointed agency head. Some don’t grant early release whatsoever. Others will grant for most long weekend federal holidays and grant it early (in the morning).