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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is an example of why middle managers like a manager or a director are truly useless positions. Are they doing their job? Ok cool. Have their earned their PTO? Ok cool.

Do they need their nosy manager to know what they spend their paid time off on? No. MYB and STFU OP. You aren’t the boss of their life. [/quote]

Um, that's not how management works. You have to balance the employee vacation time to ensure that you can continue to get work done during busy seasons. My business season is March/April. I would need workers during that time so could not have multiple people taking out the 1st week of April. It would be detrimental to business. I'd imagine accounting firms are much the same way.

So no, part of responsible employment is not dumping work on employees when the office is known to be busy. [/quote]

Your work must involve a lot of paper pushing. Many of us work in strategic or technical roles and me taking vacation is more or less unrelated to another person taking vacation, even on the same team. There’s less capacity to handle overflow issues but it’s not like someone else can cover my BAU workload for a week. [/quote]

Yes, law and finance are very paper pushing fields. We have government deadlines that are dictated throughout the year. Our annual calendar revolves around them, as does our revenue stream. So we cannot have individuals out during this time. IF an atty wants to miss this season, I guess she can but she would miss out on a ton of billables, which would hurt the bottom line.

So yes, management must consider the business calendar when granting vacation. [/quote]

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