So I have read quite a few posts over the last few months and a good number of them have mentioned a manager and their employee during a text or verbal exchange about the employee needing some time off for whatever reason. Then the manager or supervisor tells the employee they need to find a replacement in order for them to be off.
Maybe I might be missing something in the last 20 years I have worked but isn't that the manager's job? I mean they are the one that is the best equipped to know who is off and who might be available. I mean if I'm going to be calling around and doing part of your job as manager, what the heck are you there for besides to take up empty space?
Luckily I don't have an issue with that at my job but I can see the first thing coming out of my mouth is that it's their responsibility not mine. Let me know if I'm wrong. I'd also love to hear from some managers and their thought process on making the employee do what essentially should be done by them.