Scott Adams worked in some of the more institutional of companies, and though he has been out of that culture for a long while. He comes up with strips that sound like he had a camera in the office recently.
Work gives bennies like vacation time as an enticement to keep employees. And the better employee you are, the more you bennies get. It may be written into your contract that after so many years or you can accumulate so much vacation. But it seems as soon as you let your boss know you are going to have a vacation there will be an issue.
I’m going to Atlanta in November, and I had put it on the calender, noted to the boss and a supervisor that I’d be gone for a day (which I thought we got off anyways). Fast forward a month and a half and the boss goes to note that he’ll be gone and he screams and yells because its the same weekend I had scheduled.
Doesn’t matter how much lead time, doesn’t matter how busy you think it will be, there always seems to be some issue. How each boss react to these unexpected intrusions on their plans are what distinguishes them as bosses.
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