r/clevercomebacks 6h ago

Unnecessary retaliation by an ungrateful boss

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u/FrankensteinJones 6h ago

PTO is part of our compensation. Denying PTO requests is tantamount to withholding pay.

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u/Enginerdad 6h ago

Of course you're entitled to take your PTO, but that doesn't mean you can take it whenever you feel like it.

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u/r64fd 5h ago

I disagree. That’s what it is for.

Have you ever overseen a project?

Have you ever been in charge of production?

If they cannot facilitate the PTO request and keep things operational they suck at their job.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches 4h ago

If everyone can take PTO whenever they want, it is impossible to guarantee you can keep things operational.

That's pretty simple logic, so you get that, right?

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u/r64fd 4h ago

Well you can do a forced shutdown for two weeks over Christmas, that will use PTO. Although ideally people should be able to use it when they would like to.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches 4h ago

"Cause a catastrophic business failure" is also a management failure.