Boss pressures employee to postpone PTO due to upcoming project deadline, employee refuses, citing HR policy: 'Managers are responsible for planning around employee availability'

Just because your manager can't figure out how to complete certain tasks and responsibilities without you does not mean you should feel sorry for them! After all, a sign of proper management is if the team can continue to thrive effectively without one person's presence. People take vacations, they get sick, and they move on to other opportunities. A decent manager leaves room for those possibilities. If everyone else is left scrambling due to one employee's absence, then the person to blame is not the employee who couldn't come into the office. It's the manager's fault!

In this instance, we have an employee who was told by HR that they needed to use the remainder of their PTO before a certain date. Otherwise, the employee would potentially lose those days entirely. With that in mind, the employee decided to finally ignore the pressure to work through holidays, so he took off without giving it another thought. Of course, their boss started panicking, as the deadline for a big project was coming close, but as we said earlier, that complete lack of preparation and anticipation was the boss's issue and not the employee's!

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