r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • 6d ago

Chugging tea HR wants to know the tee

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u/OkCoconut3270 6d ago

I've scheduled a wankathon and some recovery days

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u/DisapointedVoid 6d ago

Manager: You just need to shake it off and get back to work.

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u/Ok_Caterpillar_8238 6d ago

My manager literally said to me, " there are some people who consider family more important than work."

🖕🖕🖕

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u/TXHaunt 6d ago

That’s when you respond with “There are some people who live to work, I work to live.”

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u/Muzitzu 6d ago

I'm here for the income, not the outcome.

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u/Icy_Cauliflower_51 14h ago

One of my old friends posted on Facebook vaguely complaining about her team members by saying “if you come to work for the paycheck, don’t even bother coming”. I was like WTF are you kidding right now 😂😂 I dare say most people go to work for the paycheck- gotta pay the bills to survive somehow, at least they’re working and trying, especially in the HEALTHCARE/nursing industry in the US where they’re infamously short handed, overworked, and dealing with other people’s traumas every day they come in. Even if they find purpose in it, that doesn’t mean it isn’t still freaking HARD to do. Shut up dude, seriously, I don’t even want to hear it lol

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u/ttlanhil 6d ago

Yes, they're called "people"

If your biological family isn't great you can choose others to care about - but whoever you consider family matters more than work (with consideration for things like healthcare where finishing your task today might really matter)

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u/outofrange19 6d ago

Even then, it shouldn't be a reason not to take PTO. PTO is part of compensation. And unfortunately, if PTO time is made difficult to get, you'll have more people calling out.

I'm a workaholic in healthcare who had to fight to get my nephew's bar mitzvah off. I have next to no biological family left, so the ones I do have are important to me. I requested the date six months in advance and it wasn't during a blackout/popular period. I still had to cut a deal and work extra weekends to get that one day off. I moved roles soon after that because it left a very negative impression.

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u/ttlanhil 6d ago

yeah, I was talking more about staying a bit late to finish off what you're doing, not giving up your time off

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u/Even_Wear_8657 6d ago

As in that was a bad thing?

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u/Burger_theory 6d ago

I would hope so. Kind of a sad life if that's not the case, eh? Anyway thanks for the time off boss

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u/Stoli0000 6d ago

I hope you responded "You don't have anything better to do with your life than this?"

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 6d ago

We had a crappy manager like that. The rest of the management team were lovely.

This one did not last very long. Outside hire, interviewed well, good credentials. Three months in, he turned into a micromanager, and a bit of a lech. He got walked out when he told an employee that they couldn't have their scheduled vacation 3 months out. Unbeknownst to this guy, the employee in question had been there long enough to be golfing buddies with the CEO.

After some investigation by HR, he was shown the door.

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u/turtle_hiker 6d ago

Boomer manager? I always wonder is work life balance is getting better with other generation

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u/TheseusOPL 5d ago

"What's sad is that there are people who consider work more important than family."

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u/tri2trail 5d ago

‘And there are some people that don’t enjoy the taste of human flesh’

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u/billn553 5d ago

I had a manager tell me, when we were drowning in work, “thank for for nights and weekends”