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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sounds like she should be reprimanded and told to find backup childcare [/quote]
If she is taking her vacation (which she is entitled to do), then it is really not appropriate to reprimand her.  I am a lead of a small team, and it is my job to build in these sort of things into the schedule I make and communicate to those higher than me.  I would be a pretty crappy team lead if there was no buffer in case someone got sick or had to take a few days off for an emergency.  Sound like the OP needs to do a better job of planning -- poor management if you ask me.[/quote]

It is not unrealistic of OP to expect that someone will not have taken over 9 days of leave by Feb 19.[/quote]
Yea, but I doubt everyone on her team is taking 9 days off.  She should have planned for things taking at least 1.5 times as long as they actually do, and then when it looked like her employee wasn't going to make a deadline, she should have reassigned the work to someone else or taken it on herself.
Due to the snowstorm last week, everyone on my team was out of the office for at least three days.  Another person got sick on top of that and was out for another 2.  What am I going to do, make that person work while sick?  Reprimand them for taking their earned time off?  Yea right.  So I took on the work myself since as lead I am the one ultimately responsible for her work and asking someone else to take it on would have made us late for other deadlines.  I had to work both days over the weekend, but since I had also adequately planned enough buffer time, it didn't really affect anyone else and it wasn't the end of the world.  Poor performance of individual employees reflects badly on the whole team -- it is my job to try to prevent situations like that from happening/people higher up than me from noticing if an individual is missing deadlines for understandable reasons.[/quote]

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