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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She probably just f-ed up the dates when she asked you the first time. I would 1000% do that.

OP, I just don’t think the world works like this. And even if she did somehow engage in an elaborate Thanksgiving Date Caper, why get your panties in a twist? The answer is the answer and the policies are the policies. You should be responding the same way no matter what.

Just be kind and firm on whatever your answer is. It doesn’t matter if the admin is CCed. It doesn’t matter if she just messed up the dates or spaced or was trying to pull a fast one.

You can’t live or manage like this, running circles in your head.[/quote]

Ironically this is my normal approach - give benefit of the doubt, let things go. I am willing to monitor emails over Thanksgiving break and address urgent matter so she can take her PTO. But I wonder if she’ll see me as a pushover and encourage similar behavior in the future. Plus, I’m a new manager so the concern in the back of my head is— I’ve got to make sure to handle this properly.[/quote]

I had a bit of a fight (stood my ground) with a manager recently because they wanted to deny leave at a time I had no control over (a significant birthday for a parent) because it was inconvenient to the team. I’d talked to my co-lead on the project months earlier when I thought this might happen and she’d agreed she could cover it, so there was that. But my manager’s issue was basically it could look bad for him and for me if he approved leave at inconvenient times and this became a “trend”. That was the part that made me mad since (a) I’d checked already that my colleague could manage and (b) there is nothing that indicates this would become a “trend.” I’ve been at my job over a decade but have only had that manager for a year.

I’d say find out why it changed, find out whether it has to be those dates, and worry about it happening again if / when it happens again rather than trying to anticipate possible future scenarios now. [/quote]

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