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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/dudsmm on 2023-08-11 22:33:39.
Many years ago, fresh out of college, I was taking my 1st vacation of a whole 4 days. I flew 1,200 miles to see my family over easter time.
I completed work ahead of time and passed on key task information to my manager Doug.
I was at my parents home, gladly mowing the 10 acres. My mom came running out with my pager, saying it had been going off nonstop. It was Doug. He started by asking why I didn’t call back right away. I said something like “I’m on vacation and was busy”. Doug said "we have a problem, the truck deliveries aren’t scheduled according to production’ They were scheduled and on the spreadsheet I shared with Doug.
I let him know I didn’t appreciate being requested during vacation, eapecially for something that was shared and updated.
When I returned the next week, I updated my PTO days for 1 less. Doug noticed and asked what’s going on. I told him I had to work due to his page and call. He denied the PTO.
6 months later, a supplier came to the office looking for Doug, as they had a meeting. Doug was at Sandals on vacation. I paged, called him, and called the hotel before finally reaching him. He sounded panicked and asked what was going on. I said the supplier is here to see you and I didn’t know what to tell him. He yelled. I calmly asked him how does it feel to be bothered on vacation?
When Doug returned, we had a staff meeting. Doug emphasized we need to avoid contacting each other during PTO and to make sure we were sharing tasks.
Ahh yes the ol’ “my time is more important than yours” managerial methodology. You could have tattooed the content of the spreadsheet to his face backwards so he always sees it in the mirror and he’d still call you on vacation because figuring it out himself was more effort than he was willing to put in.
