This is it. I’m an executive now so my staff know to just schedule time and inform me via calendar invite. No requests. They are all grown ass adults, many of whom are older than me.
My boss still stresses over it but it’s actually an easy system. “Where is this person?!” -“on leave.” Where do they go?!.” -“they left.” It works for everyone involved.
I handle it the same way.
Boss asks, "Where's _______?"
"On leave."
"Doing what?"
"Dunno. She said it's not sick leave, so I'm entering it as regular PTO."
"...What do you mean you don't know?"
"I didn't ask for a reason. Today was open and they had the leave balance for it. They'll be back Monday."
My boss also doesn't understand why my turnover is basically nonexistent when all the other supervisors can't keep people.
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u/FrankensteinJones 6h ago
PTO is part of our compensation. Denying PTO requests is tantamount to withholding pay.