'I am NOT AVAILABLE': Manager decides to change student worker's availability during their school holiday without talking to them

Communication is a key part of any business. Being able to have simple conversations with staff and other workgroups is an important part of being a manager. 

Communication can be a tricky thing, the discrepancy between what you intend to say and what other people hear is vast, so it's important to be clear and concise with your message. Communication is so easy to get wrong, but the sure way to fail at it is not to do it at all. The worst thing you can do — as a manager or at any level of an organization — is make an assumption in the place of a simple conversation.

That's what this manager did when they decided to change their worker's availability and schedule them for more shifts without talking to them first. The manager knew that their employee's holiday from school was coming up, but instead of asking them if they were able to work more, they just scheduled them for the shifts.

This went over like a lead balloon, and the ensuing confrontation was then posted by the employee to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, where it sparked discussion around the topic.

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