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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the OP and have been back several times. The bigger point is we have a process in this office. We have a leave planning calendar where everyone puts their anticipated out of office time. This is for coordination purposes only. If you want approved leave until it is formally requested in the T&A system and approved by your supervisor. By the regs I posted earlier, yes, employees have the right to schedule earned PTO, but the managers have the right to determine when that leave can be taken due the needs of the office.

[b]The last week week of May is very busy. We have a trade delegation scheduled that week and it is also EER season. I cannot commit to giving both people time off until I have a bigger picture of the trade delegation demands. I will also be caught up in writing EERs for all the staff, not just these two.

I had asked the young woman with the plan to attend her friends wedding to take charge of the trade mission. She told me she had plans to travel that week. I said I would look into assigning it to another manager. However, she jumped ahead of me, worked her own deal without telling me, and then went ahead and announced she’d bought her tickets and planned to go. My senior managers were aghast at the disregard for procedure and authority. It’s really not our problem she bought tickets without have firm leave approval first. 
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Frankly, as a Dad who took time off for both my daughters’ HS and college graduations, I’m more likely to approve that employee’s request (she followed procedure) than the wedding one. It’s just wedding of a college friend.

We are just a flat organization that runs all loosey goosey. We do not have telework and in office work is required. That is something we cannot negotiate with the CEO. It is what it is. We are also on 24/7 365. It is the nature of the work. You can be on call for anything that arises. [/quote]

The first bolded paragraph is your own problem to work out. These people are asking for leave in FEBRUARY for something in May that you don't even have a clear picture of. It could cancel for all you know. And you needing time to write EERs should 100% not be shifted over to your employees. It's why you get paid the big bucks, as they say.

In the second bolded paragraph you reveal the truth - you really don't know if it's necessary for either or both employees to be there, and you even planned to assign the task to someone else! You are just irritated that they one employee created a solution for herself by taking some initiative. You and your other managers being "aghast" makes you sound about 1000 years old. And I'm 51, so not exactly a millenial.

Your processes are clunky and antiquated. Professionals don't want to beg and scrape to be granted time off that they've earned. Your employee tried to take initiative to take something off of your plate. You need to readjust your thinking.[/quote]

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