The place where I work recently hired a new supervisor (an internal hire from a different department) for our team. His first change was to lower the number of people allowed on PTO from 2 to 1. Only one person is allowed off. We are a team of 16. This may not seem bad, but inevitably, a lot of us end up requesting the same days off, especially as end of the year approaches.
We have managed the 2 a day limit for years with little trouble. It's not ideal, but we make it work.
But this reduction feels like a slap in the face. There is zero need to do this. The pretext is that this is being done for efficiency, but we are a very lean, efficient team to begin with; all of us pull way than our weight. We are never sitting on piles of work, we zero out our queues almost daily.
This feels like a punitive flex on the part of a new supervisor to establish dominance.