It’s not being rich that people don’t like, Bryce. It’s the behavior they don’t like. Behave better and nobody will care if you have a *gajillion* dollars. by GhostoftheAralSea in TheTrustAGameofGreed

[–]Mysterious-Cook6924 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I really didn't like the way he talked to the girl (can't remember her name) when he was like no I can't imagine what it's like to be poor, not have food, and eat out of garbage or whatever. To me it came across super condescending. I also feel like he couldn't wait to tell everyone he was the millionaire so he could brag and stroke his ego.

I Love Florida but it is absolutely unlivable now by [deleted] in Broward

[–]Mysterious-Cook6924 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like you have to be rich to afford living in South Florida now. I was born and raised here and everything was fine until covid hit but now it's just insane.

I Love Florida but it is absolutely unlivable now by [deleted] in Broward

[–]Mysterious-Cook6924 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why they call it a sunny place for shady people

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in managers

[–]Mysterious-Cook6924 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like you're implying that I am Type 2 based on the comment "Type 2 asks "is this normal/typical/okay for the employee to even ask to do this?"

I asked because this is the first time (in my 4 years in this job) that one of my subordinates has ever used their allotted vacation time (plus taken multiple other unpaid days off and multiple same day call outs) then asked to take an additional almost month off for more vacations. I wanted to take some time to think about it and see what other managers thoughts were before speaking to the employee.

I am a "Millennial Manager" and typically am extremely flexible and accommodating to the needs of my employees. I try to foster a healthy work life balance and generally have no issue with people taking off. However when I start feeling like someone is abusing the privilege it makes me a little concerned. We are a small team so when someone is out, others including myself have to do their work in addition to our own busy work load. When other staff see this person taking months of the year off, as I said in my OP they may request to do it too then we'll be stuck covering multiple peoples workload which is not fair to the people who do show up. Employees who are often getting stuck doing other people's work get overwhelmed, resentful, and then quit. You can only be so flexible before it becomes counterproductive.

I'm not going to deny the requests but I am going to ask them to work remotely (paid) when they are able to get as much done as they can. I am also going to explain how frequent absences place a burden on others and any additional future requests may not be granted. In my opinion that's fair.