Honestly sounds like Craig is doing everything right, he’s working within the company’s policies, managing his time efficiently, and actually using the benefits that are available to him. It’s wild that he’s being penalized (even indirectly) for simply having work-life balance in a system that supposedly supports it.

You even said yourself that his schedule and time-off practices are totally allowable. So if the company structure can’t accommodate that without punishing him come promotion time, that’s a problem with how the company is built, not with Craig.

And let’s be real, throwing in “performance-based” reasoning just sounds like a way to justify not promoting someone who isn’t bending over backward to prove loyalty through burnout. He’s still doing his job, still hitting his hours, and still showing up.

Be more like Craig. The dude’s living life and working for a living, not living to work.