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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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.

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]

Hi OP - I deduced who you work for, I work for the exact same large Federal agency with a global presence in a very similar role. I don't have a solution unfortunately, but I empathize with you. This is what happens when our leadership expects us to do superhuman tasks without proper staffing or funding. Not everything can be urgent or a top priority. Don't mind the haters, this forum is pretty much what you'd expect to happen when posting is anonymous by default. When your site makes Reddit look civilized, you know you're doing something wrong.

To everybody else - OP works in a organization with a 24/7/365 coverage requirement in the national security realm that is very high-profile (lots of dealing with demanding members of Congress and literal international crises) and most likely cannot be done remotely. OP might be involved with Ukraine-related work as well, I know people who are (including a few actually in Kyiv right now, a literal war zone). So yeah, this isn't a normal white-collar job and the 24/7 requirement isn't coming from OP, it's from people much higher up. So maybe give them a break, honestly the 24/7 expectation is well known when you apply for the job. Like I said, it's not a normal job. Better staffing is desperately needed, but OP is a first-line manager - they have no control over that.

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You're assuming an awful lot. OP never said they/their work unit were in a 24/7/365 staffing posture. And everyone seems to forget that the one employee already found someone to cover for them! Two months out! OP and the other senior management just don't like that they weren't consulted every step of the way.

Everyone needs to chill. It's really going to be ok.[/quote]

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