Company Forces Employee to Use All His Vacation Days, Incapacitates Company

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Eric Lund
May 31, 2021 8:00 PM EDT

It's another one of those unfair changes in policy made by management with zero foresight. It seems like a huge company should be able to adapt when their employees use the benefits they promise to give. In a similar story, here's a guy who came up with a masterful plan when told he had to work on vacation.

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    Text - r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/-S-I-R-E-N- 20 hours ago Vacation- use it or lose it? Fine. MC coming right up. oc L This is not mine, but my late dad's. He loved telling this story. I've tried typing this story a few times here in the last few months, but couldn't get through it. I am a daddy's girl and miss him terribly. He was a brilliant and wickedly clever sob and I hope you all enjoy. TLDR at bottom.
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    Text - Gary's company was bought out several times in the numerous decades he worked there. As could be expected, every time the company had new ownership, many of the benefits and company policies changed. This particular MC concerns vacation and PTO benefits. Gary usually worked at his local company facility, although he did travel as needed. About 20 years ago, his company, AW, was once again bought out. This time by an extremely large energy company, DC. The new company started a project alm
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    Text - Text - Gary was chosen for this project. It required him to work on the project team at corporate which was in a different state and 4 hours away every Thursday and Friday. This 15 month project was critical and at the request of the execs with DC, Gary postponed some travel plans he had for the year and moved them to the following year to accommodate the project schedule. Being a hard worker and genuinely good guy, Gary drove to corporate extremely early every Thursday, put in a full 10
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    Text - A few months into the project, DC decided to change the vacation policies for all AW employees. They did not allow any vacation to roll over and therefore any vacation accrued had to be used or it would be forfeited. Gary had some major worldwide travel plans with his wife scheduled over the next year, some of which he postponed as a favor to DC to help with the project. This had all been pre-approved and signed off by his boss. The change in vacation policy would require him to cancel 2
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    Text - And here comes the MC: So Gary then planned out a schedule to use his vacation before the end of the year as dictated by the new DC policy. It was in June, and his weekly schedule for the rest of the year went like this: Monday - Vacation Tuesday - Vacation Wednesday - Work at local facility Thursday - Drive 4 hours to corporate, arrive at noon. Work 30 minutes. Take hour lunch. Work 30 minutes. Drive 4 hours home. Friday - Vacation Gary turned in the vacation requests. His boss, who was
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    Text - The following week, Gary started his new work schedule. The local facility immediately began to feel the strain. Jobs began to fall behind schedule without Gary there to support their end. In the first week alone, the local facility lost 3 jobs due to late delivery of services. The corporate project immediately came to a near halt with Gary only assisting 1 hour a week. By the second week, the big wigs became extremely irritated. This was now costing the company some serious revenue. When
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    Text - On the call, Gary and his boss were both questioned concerning Gary's sparse work schedule. When explained that it was the only way that Gary would be able to use his vacation time that he was being forced to use or otherwise forfeit, the execs brought HR on the phone and grilled them. Needless to say, Gary was given the exception for his vacation time. He was allowed to keep his planned and scheduled vacations for the following year and roll over the time needed to do so. TLDR: New owner
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