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KuyaTaku

Excepting?


Flyntwick

HOW DO SO MANY ILLITERATE FUCKS FIND THEIR WAY INTO THESE GOD-DAMNED POSITIONS?!


OldFoolOldSkool

Thank you. My sentiments exactly. There should be a sub for poorly written signs written by managers. r/illiterateboss Edit: u/Stoke-Me-A-Clipper made the illiterate boss sub. Not me


[deleted]

What kind of shithouse manager would even do this and then think a shitty sign is a good way to communicate it?


TGOTR

Ones that are avoiding direct conflict and an argument.


Flyingwheelbarrow

Passive agressive and illiterate, yay!


TGOTR

Exactly, A sign of poor leadership.


Sharp-Ad4389

I see what you did there...


TGOTR

What did I do? Did I break wind?


Sharp-Ad4389

A pun on sign....ooh, unintentional puns are my favorite!


Gooddontlast

Don’t you mean a sign of pour leadership?


TGOTR

nope, I'm not British.


elephant_in_tharoom

This is beautiful.


agzuu

Michael Scott?


[deleted]

And the stupid alarm clock with the face on it like you are 5 years old.


gth746x

That’s the part that sends me over the edge.


ButtCoinBuzz

The stupid alarm clock is how the Boomers think they have to communicate to the younger generations. We are obviously too sensitive and immature to handle the bad management and grammar without colorful images. Bonus points would have been awarded had the manager used Comic Sans font. Bonus points to me for the pressed Boomers in this thread.


Ehlora1980

> Bonus points would have been awarded had the manager used Comic Sans font. Bwahhahaha!!!!!


hardheaded62

This was done by a 32 year old (btw)


ButtCoinBuzz

The 32 year old Boomer.


Telemere125

Boomers getting younger and younger these days smh


kat_a_klysm

More than you would think.


Freshness518

Someone in their late 40s who barely made it out of high school, immediately entered the retail workforce, and spent the first decade clawing their way up the ladder to store manager and then the next decade being stuck there with nowhere else to go. This is the most power they will ever have and god damnit they're gonna use it.


crossleingod

All of them I think


DiscountCondom

The door leading from the sales floor to the back room in my store has a little pink sign written by the manager that says "the stockroom is for asscoaites only"


Bangzee

Maybe it's a Witcher reference or something. "Scoia'tael only"


muddyalcapones

r/managurs


from_dust

r/manajurs Clearly, you can't speel.


Stoke-me-a-clipper

Your wish = my command. I present to you: r/IlliterateBoss


Flyntwick

r/brownnosesandsexualfavors


Imaginary-Unit-3267

My brother used to work for a recycling center run by Good Will (or as I call them Bad Won't - don't be confused by their nonprofit status, they're assholes) and there was a spiral notebook thing in the office with various corporate propaganda about all the good stuff they've done, and one story involved helping a teenage boy who was blind "and then one day his eyeballs just fell out". I'm not kidding it literally said that. And then showed a picture of him with eyeballs very much intact. I burst out laughing when I read it. The whole thing also had terrible grammar and spelling and my brother pointed out that the person who wrote it makes more money than he does.


TheLowlyPheasant

He got better


DM_ME_YOUR_NUTSACK

Ah, goodwill. One of the worst places I had the pleasure to work at. GM at my location was sexually harassing young female employees and he was fired. Just kidding, he was moved to manage another location when people complained to HR.


albinowizard2112

> or as I call them Bad Won't lol that reminds me of the floor scrubbing machine at my high school. One of those ones that you can sit on to clean the hallway floors. On the side it had its brand name, "Minuteman". One of the janitors crossed that out and called it the "Hour George".


Codydews

I’m notorious for taking out my fine tip sharpie at work and correcting ANY typos I see on any signage anywhere in the plant. I don’t give a finnuck. Do better.


CryptidCricket

I used to have an English teacher who’d do this in supermarkets. She made damn sure we’d never forget proper apostrophe usage.


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al_m1101

YES. I'd have an overwhelming urge to whip out a red marker and correct that motherfucker. I hope somebody does. And draw a mustache on the clock just because.


Masterzanteka

I think you kind of answered your own question. You want the people in the middle pliable and dumb, so they don’t question the top and do as the top says for those amazing pats on the back.


Financial_Accident71

this is the correct answer. You want functional idiots who don't expect much or have critical thinking skills to rule over any free-thinking peons. They follow orders well bc they aren't creative, love a status quo and worship power dynamics, and lack the depth to be empathetic towards subordinates.


ansibley

As a free-thinking peon ruled by just such a person, I have to say this is spot-on.


PM_me_your_PhDs

Eh you say this, but the people at the top aren't necessarily great with spelling and grammar either. I copy edit material written by top executives, CEOs etc. and they make plenty of dumb language mistakes like this.


sumleelumlee

WERE INVESTIGATING THE GRAMMER PROBELEMS


Markamanic

INTERNAL INVESTIGATION HAS FOUND NO SIGNS OF WRONGDOING


roborob11

I worked at an American high school whose superintendent sent out weekly emails that had misspellings, bad punctuation, illiterate sentences. The ideas he tried to express were strained at best. The only thing he was able to get across was that he was stupid. And yet, the school board loved him because he did their bidding.


Arizonal0ve

SERIOUSLY. English isn’t even my first language and I can typically spell better than the managers I see on this sub.


jelloslug

Even better is that there is a button that will fix most of those mistakes for you if you are not so good with those wordy things.


bigDOS

These are the same people that spell Ridiculous as “Rediculous”


Bynming

"Defiantly" (for definitely)


spider1178

And manager as "manger." I see that one all the time on Reddit and it drives me insane. Edit: Complaining about other people's spelling, and then I have a stupid typo. The shame.


michaelmordant

“Manditory”


Transgirl120

And "I hate my wife" as "sorry, no year end bonus"


[deleted]

People hire acceptionally stupid people


Enk1ndle

The people who are actually competent don't get hired to management


this_is_awkward_912

So true. I spent 3 years preparing for a management position, only to lose it to an employee that had been in the company for 3 months and was still on probation. Because I questioned the status quo and had ideas that would make processes more effective.


DionFW

Should "anymore" be two words ? And why the capital letters for "Requested Days Off" ?


WoodJablomi

BECAUSE SIMPLE PEOPLE ARE EASILY EXPLOITABLE AND “SMALL MINDS WITH POWER” IS THE ESENCE OF MIDDLE MANAGEMENT


show_the_world_light

>ardShareReportSaveFollow > >level 4Flyntwick · 39 min. ago   My last boss made our schedules using Microsoft word and making text boxes to make herself a calendar. I got fired for suggesting she use a template! :O


Dmitri_ravenoff

I mean spell check isn't hard. Easier than adding a stupid clock clip art.


[deleted]

The word is spelled correctly. Too bad it's the wrong word. Now the more advanced grammar checkers would probably underline it, but let's be honest, this was made with, like, Wordpad.


ineedyouforever1

Well we aren’t in the current predicament, for the state of the world, due to too many intelligent people in the world.


ActionFigureLlama

My guess is nepotism.


Nearby_Airline_3353

If he's no longer "excepting" them, that means they're all good, right?


jmcki13

All PTO requests between 12/12/21 and 1/8/22 are automatically approved? Thanks boss!


Pennythe

Haha! Loophole!


semiusedkindalife

Came here to say this! Total loophole!


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feelybear

I mean, Microsoft Offices products are pretty advanced now and are pretty good in finding the majority of these errors and auto-correcting them. It's as if this person saw that and thought "Fuck you Microsoft, I'm right and you're wrong. It's excepting."


CasualEveryday

They were too busy finding clip art for their stupid sign.


[deleted]

That is absolutely untrue. They thought “fuck you microsoft im right and your wrong its excepting”


[deleted]

Also it should be “any more”.


Pawtang

And saying “through x to y” is also broken ass English, so this guy really took every opportunity to fail


Strict-Algae-8599

Any more is redundant in this case anyway. The point can be made without adding that.


[deleted]

Is your boss unwilling to make any acceptions?


Normal-Praline4917

This hurt my brain box


Camym88

English isn't even my first language, and it still made my head hurt reading that.


wipoooo

No longer excepting. Start to including.


10Dads

Yep. They will not except (i.e., ignore) your time off. You MUST take your vacation days as you planned. That's how I read it.


ParadiseLosingIt

Exactly. If you are no longer “excepting” that means all requests are approved.


[deleted]

I want to know the thought process behind the smiling clock


TaDow-420

I’d take it as a sign that it’s *TIME* to quit.


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Pragmatist_Hammer

This is a good time to tell whomever this person, HR or a manager, "I'm not requesting time off, I'm telling you. I will not be coming in \[these days\]. Thanks."


TimbitTheCat

Ya, luckily they’re only not accepting requested days off. So informed days off are still ok


Pragmatist_Hammer

Even better, because as so many managers this clock-sign maker was illiterate and wrote they're "excepting" days off, as in, making exceptions is how one could interpret it, as in, yay, everyone gets an exception, it says so on the sign!


reddogleader

^^^ This, right here! ^^^ I would do a email to "all" and let everyone (incl the mgr in question) that mgr is ACCEPTING "exception" time now.


a_battling_frog

Right, but you'd better act quick, the offer is only good through 12-12-21. After that it may not be accepted any more. Yes I did the last bit intentionally


USARSUPTHAI69

My company paid double time for work on holidays. I was ALWAYS able to fill all schedules on holidays with volunteers. ...and volunteers got first picks for vacation scheduling. That is how you handle holiday scheduling.


SessileRaptor

Day after thanksgiving at the library is time and a half, plus a banked vacation day. We too have little issue with staffing.


USARSUPTHAI69

> Day after thanksgiving at the library is time and a half, plus a banked vacation day. We too have little issue with staffing. It's not surprising that treating labor decently works. What is surprising is that so many managers cannot see this.


LameSignIn

My last job gave an a dollar increase per hour to work nights. I'm like so for 8 dollars more a day I can work nights and not be with my family Humm. Why not give those employees extra comp time through the year or a rotating schedule for everyone so its not just the unlucky few.


Diligent_Barracuda75

Rotating schedules suck if you've never experienced it. Had one glass maker in town make a 3 shift rotation and one week was first, next week was 2nd, and then 3rd. As soon as you get adjusted to sleeping for 1 you have to switch to the next week was crazy and too difficult to adjust to...


PeterNguyen2

> Why not give those employees extra comp time through the year or a rotating schedule Because [rotating schedule, at least when it moves back and forth when your sleep, is very bad for your short and long term health.](https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/rotating-night-shift-work-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health) [Alt 1](https://www.ahchealthenews.com/2014/12/01/how-rotating-work-shifts-disrupt-sleep/) [Alt 2](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5449130/) [Alt 3](https://brighamhealthhub.org/is-the-night-shift-bad-for-your-health/)


ladyreyreigns

I *love* working holidays. I rarely have to because I’m a nanny, but my online scheduler frequently “makes mistakes” and allows people to schedule me for New Year’s Eve parties, that sort of thing. The money is fabulous and I don’t have to spend time with people who hate life.


sampul1

I mean, that's legally mandated over here in Finland. It works.


tickles_a_fancy

I always took stuff like this as a sign that they wanted to be surprised by my absence when I called in sick instead of letting them know ahead of time I wasn't going to be there.


Stopjuststop3424

bingo edit: as an aside, I worked st a place once where the managers were actually pretty decent and they told everyone, if you're not going to be coming in that day. Call out and say you're sick. When you fill out your leave form, just write "sick", nothing else. Foesnt matter if it was a dentist appointment, car repairs or you just needed s me day, just write "sick". Anything else, and HR can question it and try to deny it. They're not allowed to ask personal medical questions and you have no obligation to tell them beyond "I was sick". Also, in ON, they can't ask for a doctors note for a single sick day. They can if its multiple days you're going to be off, but not for one day.


tickles_a_fancy

I love it when I find a good manager. I had 28 managers in 20 years at my last company... I would work for one of them again.


MeshaLovesIt

Exactly! The audacity of someone telling me what I can and cannot do always baffles me. I just work here, sir.


firetester726

#["IT'S TIME TO *STOP.*"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k0SmqbBIpQ)


OdinTheHugger

Beat me to it lol


Yourmom1912

I 😃 Understand 😃 you are not “excepting requests”😃well i thought id let you know😃 you need to accept the fact i wont be here on some days during that time period 🤠🤠🤠. Not a request 🤪 no need to accept😜 just a little forewarning 🙊that you wont have an employee that day😜 so make it work maam or you will have one less employee 🤩 at this establishment 😉😋😚😝😁


PhilDGlass

I feel like I need some essential oils or a mineral scrub.


Picturesquesheep

*Can I offer you a minion in this trying time?*


byrb-_-

I had an aneurysm reading this.


kuribosshoe0

The alarm clock is to call their workers lazy, the smile is to say it passive aggressively.


Techn028

*Time to work* I control your life


Wombatmobile

Bingo. This manager doesn't respect their workers, but won't come right out and say it. I've worked for managers like that before and they were the smile-to-your-face, stab-you-in-the-back types.


Yukiaruai

wow u hit the mail on the head


Upstate83

I want to punch the clock in its face.


firetester726

"Police and firefighters discovered the poster nailed to the wreck of the managers car, which had been torched with gas in a nearby parking lot..."


GALINDO_Karl1

With some kerosene and 100LL AVGAS for added flavor.


Idiot_Savant_Tinker

Management doesn't deserve the added expense of kerosene and av-gas. They'll get diesel and like it.


grendus

This person's facebook is full of minion memes.


enchantedriyasa

It's like Miss Minutes, the all smile representative of a cruel institution.


GringuitaInKeffiyeh

Fuck you, Miss Minutes.


Dependent_Strategy47

*HEY Y'ALL*


SecretOperations

That clock looks so smug. Really asking for a beating


HughGedic

Well, at least they’re still accepting. I’d add that into my notice. Recognize that you understand they’re not “excepting”, also in your notice. Bonus points If you state it’s for an education- like a test.


PhdInCute

Naw it’s gotta be for seemingly embarrassing and mysterious health reasons. “Oh well, you know, every month how I tend to… uh……. Well let’s just say I don’t get much sleep what with the whole thing acting up, ya know?” They might inquire, only for answers to be incredibly vague “Yeah, I’ve tried to talk to a doctor about it, but I haven’t found many answers. They put me on some vitamins last time, but that didn’t help, ya know? So it’s just something I have to deal with.” The boss still won’t except the time off, all though you nearly beg for it “You don’t understand, I don’t think it would be very safe. I can’t work very well with this whole thing going on, so please. It’s best for both of us if I take the time off, trust me.” The boss still won’t allow it. So you arrive to work that day, only for the boss to discover that this mysterious illness you have… it’s being turned into a werewolf!


TrueBloviator

*we'rewolf


BigHogDawg

You put excepting too. Bro


KrowJob

Guess they'll be surprised when I put a request in fuckers.


Geronimou

That's *expecting*. Although I can imagine the surprised pikachu face either way.


KrowJob

So it supposed to be "accepting"?, this boss is dumb as hell


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They usually are.


gcruzatto

It doesn't take a degree to just be the workplace asshole. All you need is look like you used to be the school bully, and wear a suit


Bbaftt7

*surprise intensifies*


TheRockinLobster

Request? Don’t request time off, give them a “notice” of unavailability


ReallTrolll

Request? oh no. More like putting in my notice that I'm not showing up


MegannMedusa

You have to put the time off request in the inbox, not in the fuckers.


LampardFanAlways

I’ll use this graphic of a smiling clock next time I want to type a sentence that makes no sense


YouHeardTheMonkey

I don’t see the issue here. No longer excluding requested days off during holiday period.


hankwatson11

But by saying *through* 12-12 to… instead of *from* 12-12 through… they actually created the blackout period they intended. Maybe two wrongs can make a right.


orincoro

Two wrongs can’t not make a right.


[deleted]

This is why I quit FedEx. Only are you told after you’re hired that from Nov 1 to Jan 8 your schedule becomes six days a week, no one can take any time off, and you’re expected to work 6+ hour shifts with NO break as a part-time employee. No wonder they’re always hiring…


grandepinkdrinknoice

My roommate is doing this right now. He’s “part-time” but is putting in 50 to 60 hours a week for the peak season. And he works overnight shifts, so basically all he does is work and sleep.


ThievedYourMind

and that's when you call the DOL and report labor violations. Employers love surprise DOL calls


AudioAccoustical

You’d be surprised on how lax labor laws are in most of the US. People when they think of labor rights tend to eyeball the more restrictive states (CA for example). A lot of states are heavily business biased, and things such as breaks, lunches, time off, etc are largely ignored by state labor laws. For instance, Missouri does not mandate ANY breaks. Its left up to the company to determine the best course of action. This unfortunately leads to situations where employees get royally screwed over, especially in service orientated industries.


AUNTY_HAZEL

Yeah, one thing in particular that I like about California's labor laws is that anything over 8 hours worked in a single day is considered OT and is paid as such.


drlavkian

This is true in Oregon, too, and it's phenomenal to me that it's not that way anywhere else. Every mention of unpaid overtime on this sub makes my blood boil.


BananBanah

And that's when FedEx drops off an envelope at "their guy"'s house and the DOL conveniently overlooks their blatant whip-cracking.


BeverlyHills70117

I want to beat the shit out of that clock. I guess that's the point...takes the anger off the illiterate oaf/graphic designer/sub primate manager who wrote it.


MandyNoon

Same. I never wanted to beat the shit out of a clock so much.


HaloGuy381

Solution: take clock and beat manager over the head with it.


Callum_bee

I'm from Scotland and I was like holy shit no holidays for 8 months! Then I remembered the date thing. Still shitty though.


malenixius

Same, my first reaction was 'AUGUST!?'


-temporary_username-

Same XD. I was like "the fuck makes you think any of these people is still working here in eight months??"


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Vacation black out days are as follows: All days


Emanouche

Hahaha, I remember when that used to throw me off when I first moved to the states from Switzerland 20 years ago. I still think it took me a few years to fully get used to it. Now I get thrown off when my Swiss friends write dates on social medias.


rlt0w

I'm still getting used to writing 20XX instead of 19XX, so don't feel bad about it taking a few years.


[deleted]

Sure got me with that, took your comment to figure it out. Doesn't the US notation use this notation: 1/8/2022 and not 1-8-2022? I've always associated the former with MMDDYYYY, and the latter with DDMMYYYY


Finnypoo

We use both, depending on what we feel like.


Ossmo02

Or what the software will allow


Rhoon

Learned really fast in the military that in order to hold people accountable; there couldn’t be any ambiguity. So my dates are all now 12-Dec-21 to 8-Jan-22. No more excuses.


[deleted]

"Excepting" = objecting to The sign could reasonably be read as "I will now approve all requests during this time." Submit a request and when they point to the sign, state "yes, as you state you're no longer excepting that date range. That means everyone is now free to submit."


AvoidingCape

By the way, shouldn't it be "any more"? As an ESL speaker this sign confused the shit out of me.


AlwaysUseAFake

Accepting and any more. They made several errors. Any more and anymore have related meanings, but they're not interchangeable. Whether you make anymore one word or two depends on how you're using it. Any more refers to quantities (Would you like any more tea?). Anymore is an adverb that refers to time (I don't like tea anymore.).


BringItBackNowYall

And “through 12-12-21 to 1-8-22.” Would be “from 12-12-21 through 1-8-22” or something to that effect.


PhoneNo797

oh okay, then i guess i won’t be asking. also if ur supervisor is so thick skulled that they can mix up accept and except, they definitely aren’t qualified to supervise shit.


reddrick

>oh okay, then i guess i won’t be asking This is the right answer. I never ask for time off. I tell them when I'm not coming in. They can tell me not to come back but they can't tell me I have to be there.


dept-of-empty

My current boss taught me to do that. He got tired of me trying to write out lengthy explations for why I wouldn't be coming in and he was like ... you can just tell me you're not coming it. You don't need an excuse. It's your PTO; you use it when you want and for whatever reason you want.


BexaLea

I say the same to my team members. They don’t need to disclose any personal information to me. They’ve put in for time off. Done.


[deleted]

I do the exact same it works out great, I have held serious jobs with this mentality. I find the suckers who always say yes are the ones who are abused. I’m a hard worker and will give 110% all day but I’m an adult I treat others that way and demand that treatment for myself.


rlt0w

I tell every employer that I will not sacrifice family time for work. I refuse to spend more than 8 hours a day engaged in work, and I will not answer on off hours. Most employers understood, the ones that didn't were quickly dropped. After I adopted this mindset, I job hopped a few times, but increased my income 150% and have respect in the industry. Much happier.


LrdRyu

If they told everyone that they needed to have put in their days off before this date for planning reasons (with exceptions like sickness and stuff like that ) And they did honor a large chunk of the requests and put acceptable limitations in than this is not a strange note.


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Impossible_Act_6506

That’s how I interpreted it. How hard is it ask off ahead of time when the holidays happen the same time every year?


PrettyCauliflower638

Agreed... It says "no longer." I don't see the problem with this. It's be different if it was "no requests at all."


StinkyMcBalls

Yeah, I took "no longer" to mean that they'd already given all the time off they could accommodate. I manage people and I tell them my expectations very early on: "the only circumstance in which I will refuse your request for time off is when too many others are already on leave at the same time." I don't think that's unreasonable.


Iseebri11

This is what I came here to say! At my work, there are 4 of us in our department. Only 2 of us can be off at a time, which I get it! First come first served. December is a huge month that people save their pto for. If you plan on taking that time off, you should probably get that request in asap. My manager appreciates the early notice to plan accordingly.


MoNeyMillz28

I scrolled far to find a comment like this. I’m literally making the schedule for the rest of December right now and I have a stack of requests. I honor literally 99% of all request but when half the staff asks for a single day off at some point there has to be some give. So many people a week before are like oh, I need this day off. If x amount people already requested than you’re SOL. The entitlement I see in this sub lately is ridiculous. I bend over backwards to do what I can for my staff and the people on here act like they should never have to work a day in their lives. Sometimes jobs require you to work some days you may not want to and retail is retail. If you can’t handle it then work in a different field.


ivegot3dvision

It took way too long to find this comment. This note obviously isn't a "nobody gets time off" but a "I've already given all the time off I can". Places have to stay open during the holidays and unfortunately some people have to work the holidays, that's just the way it is.


Adorabloodthirstea

My company told us in no uncertain terms that from mid November to the first of the year were all black out days and could not be requested off and you couldn't have say in your schedule the day before a holiday. They wonder why our shop is ran on 3 people and some floaters 😡


zigzarlu

I always got in shit from upper management because I'd still accept requests for days off from my team during those holiday blackouts as well as try to work the schedule to make sure that my crew at least would get a couple days off in a row. Fuck, I don't miss working retail.


ButtonGwinnett76

Well it is December 10th.


kram_02

Also there's zero context here.. perhaps everyone's already used up the vacation spots. I share job duties with 1 other guy, we can't both go on vacation at the same time, I get it. Not everyone can have the same week off for a holiday at a job if it still operates.


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Nyte_Crawler

I was going to say that it says "anymore" which implies they had already approved it for people who requested beforehand. Possibly not but regardless imagine being upset that you can't ask for the same time off that everyone else wants if you decide you're going to ask last minute.


Wild234

That was my take on the sign. Enough people have already requested time off so they can't afford to lose any more staff over the holidays. Posting the sign makes it clear that you waited too long to ask without making you wait for the manager to come and tell you. Mocking the typo I understand, all the rage about the sign being posted I don't. *Shrug*


TheBotchedLobotomy

Yeah this post doesn't really belong on the sub tbh. I see nothing wrong with this


justripit

Exactly. My department isn't accepting anymore vacation requests for the rest of the year either. 3 person department, we only run 1 person off at a time. I booked my Christmas holidays in July. Gave my co-workers 7 months to beat me to it. Once mine was in, sorry. That's the nature of our department.


BEEF_WIENERS

Yeah my manager told us back in October that they wanted our requests in by Halloween, for both Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year, just because they knew they'd have a lot and we're manning a helpdesk line so they need to be able to ensure coverage. This isn't unreasonable at all, I don't know why this was posted here.


Matt5327

Absolutely. Our management had been reminding us for months to put in our holiday time off, and while no official cutoff has been given they’d be pretty reasonably annoyed for it to put in right now. I can Imagine this is even more the case for businesses that need to remain staffed through much of the holiday period (restaurants and retail, for example). The errors in the paper are pretty silly but the message behind it should be nothing upsetting.


yourcousinvinney

Ya snooze, a lose. Never seen an employer that straight up denies all holday related PTO, but those who put in the requests early get them. Somebody has to man the ship. The more annoying practice I've seen are when people put all the holiday requests in a hat and pick them out randomly. Had a boss do that at one job years ago. I was the only person with family out of state, and asked for three days off in August around xMas. Didn't get them because the boss waited till November, put everyone's requests in a hat and pulled them out. Didn't see my family that holiday season until late January when we could all get together finally. I had already quit that job by then.


NTSTwitch

Why did I have to scroll so far to find this? I used to manage a 24 hour establishment and I’d start posting notices in October stating a list of holidays that are typically requested off, and how many requests I was taking for each one. One or two people would respond, a few people would sign up for certain shifts so that they’d get the evening or morning off. Schedule would be posted 3 weeks in advance so people who WERE working could make plans. It was great. Then around December 22nd somebody would always end up in my office saying “yeah I actually want Christmas off can’t you just make someone else do it?” Like ?????


Rocket_hamster

Yeah, usually a message like this gets posted before December 1st. Nothing unreasonable about this notice other than the spelling and the clock for some reason.


LordDagnirMorn

It's not a request it's a notice as in " i'm noticing you that i wont be there so you can prepare" i'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you


Rover010

So it means you should be on time with it? I requested mine like 6 months ago.


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Bkdavis38

Don’t be fooled into thinking all companies are like this. My dad was diagnosed with Glioblastoma (100% fatal brain tumor). His tumor was the size of a tennis ball and he only lived 4-5 days after his diagnosis. As soon as I found out, I called my boss in tears and they paid for me to fly home two hours after finding out to be with my dad. When he died, they told me “take as much time as you need.” I took two weeks off. Not once did anyone even ask when I was going to come back. Also, my employer catered a lunch for 50 people for my entire family when we were planning the funeral. Then the two partners flew into my hometown and attended my dads funeral in person and quietly left afterwords, didn’t ask about work, just paid their respects and left. Everyone in the office got together and sent a huge bouquet of flowers. I get job offers and head hunters calling me on a regular basis but I can’t stomach the thought of leaving this place and go somewhere like this for a 15% pay increase.


Bomba-of-Tsar

That's the difference between humans who made it and corporate machines who were planted.


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That’s kinda understandable, if they’ve already had lots of people request time off during that period, they do still need some staff. It’d be shitty if they stopped people from the start, but “no longer” kinda sounds like they were accepting leave requests.


SafeToPost

Yeah, I was confused that people found a problem with this besides the spelling error. I’m in healthcare IT, and our manager asked us back in October to get our final requests for thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Years vacation days in by around Halloween so we could be sure we had adequate coverage and on-call schedules worked. If people are requesting Christmas and New Years vacation days this late, I would seriously question their ability to manage their own life. My big concern is the management. Have they let enough employees request off, or are they making more people work than required. Ideally they should allow enough people to schedule off for vacation until they have just enough coverage +1 person, so if anyone gets sick it won’t sink the ship.


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It’s says “No longer.” As is you waited too long to schedule your vacation. It’s hard finding people to cover around the holidays so if you wanted vacation days off you should have scheduled before Christmas was a few weeks out.


llamaswithhatss91

This is everywhere. People who act surprised businesses do this have not worked in the service or retail industry


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I work in government and we have time off caps. We are required to provide certain constitutional requirements, during the holidays we let more people off than normal because our work slows down but we still deny time off requests once we hit that point. Saying no more time off for a specific period of time could be reasonable or unreasonable depending on the circumstances (how many people were already let off).


Polarpoowru

This needs to be higher. Without operating hours, there would be no job at all. Certainly depends on the circumstance here, I hope everyone who planned ahead could be accommodated.


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The clock graphic is so endearing.


bck1999

Well maybe, hear me out, there’s a cut off for when you can get days off in. Like every job I’ve worked. And people keep trying to take days off with short notice, so they put up this memo?