New army boss urges employees to take their PTO, entire team takes off at once, leaving new boss scrambling: 'Each of us had accumulated between 200 and 500 extra hours'

It's always amusing when bosses try to do the right thing but totally fumble in the execution. It's the kind of chaotic miscalculation that makes you wonder how these people got promoted to positions of authority in the first place. Sure, maybe for once these folks have the purest of intentions, but that does not necessarily mean that their policies will go well for them when put into practice.

In this instance, we have a new army boss who urged the employees on his team to take their paid time off as soon as possible. The problem was that everyone on the team had accumulated between 200 and 500 hours, so they had earned the right to take a month off of work and even more in certain cases. When they all put in their requests, suddenly, the new boss and his own manager realized that there was no one around to take up weekend shifts. That's what you get, sir!

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