Manager tries to get employee to work during PTO, giving her personal number to a contractor and listing her as on-call for tasks she was never hired to do: ‘I said “absolutely not!” I am taking a paid vacation and will not be coming in’

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• What’s particularly impressive about this situation is the sequencing. This manager has got rhythm, she gave out a personal phone number without asking, volunteered an employee for a task outside her on-call agreement, communicated none of this clearly to the contractor, and then left for Colorado. The employee finds out about all of it when a stranger texts her personal phone to ask if she can let someone into the office. The manager has essentially set a small fire, handed someone else a bucket, and boarded a flight.

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• The employee handles it gracefully, redirects the contractor to the correct people, and thinks the situation is resolved. Then the contractor texts back to mention that actually, the manager told him she was on call, which is how he ended up with her number in the first place. Now she is in the position of explaining to someone above her manager's head that no, she is not available, which reads as unhelpful to someone who has no context for the internal disagreement that led to this moment.

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• This is the hidden cost of a manager who treats other people's boundaries as minor inconveniences to route around. It is not just the vacation being disrupted. It is the employee being made to look uncooperative to people who only have the manager's framing of the situation. The manager gets to be in Colorado. The employee gets to send politely worded texts to strangers explaining that there has been a miscommunication she did not cause.

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• The hundred dollars a week is something, but it was never going to be enough for whatever this is.

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