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

[Anonymous]

I’ve never been clear about the “legality” of the holiday weekend early release for feds. At my agency, it’s pretty universal, but the “news” is always only delivered the day of, and either in-person or in coded email language that someone explains to you as a new employee. (Not that I’m complaining.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never been clear about the “legality” of the holiday weekend early release for feds. At my agency, it’s pretty universal, but the “news” is always only delivered the day of, and either in-person or in coded email language that someone explains to you as a new employee. (Not that I’m complaining.)

It’s billed as administrative leave. Our agency has us code it.

[Anonymous]

Invariably same day notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never been clear about the “legality” of the holiday weekend early release for feds. At my agency, it’s pretty universal, but the “news” is always only delivered the day of, and either in-person or in coded email language that someone explains to you as a new employee. (Not that I’m complaining.)

I guess it's possible your agency has different authority, but probably they're being extra sensitive about optics. Or it's a power trip. Plenty of agencies are open about it.

I used to work for the military and we got 4 hours before holiday weekends, but it was couched as a driving safety issue and placed in a long email about road safety and road accidents. We coded it as safety leave.

[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?

It's demeaning.

[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?

It's demeaning.

It is and what makes it even more annoying is the sycophants who respond with kiss a$$ thank you emails in response.