My coworker and I are contractors (the only two currently in our department) who work onsite for a client. This means we need to go through two layers of approval for everything – talk to our bosses, who are remote, and they then go to our in-office manager, who we don't actually work for. It's a pain in the ass and makes it hard to get anything accomplished as far as our own requests for better schedules, time off, etc. The onsite manager (not our real boss) really is the one who ends up being the obstacle to every request we have. Well, my coworker put in her notice last week after a decade with the company, and the onsite manager has not spoken to her since. No department email regarding her resignation, no congratulations, no coming down to our area to talk to her. They've always been pretty friendly too. My friend is going to a similar company who is associated with our client – we're familiar with the people there, and she'll still have occasional contact with the current company.
So, what should have been her last two days of work happen to be days she already had called off for vacation. Our real bosses said that's fine, they'd be honoring that. The onsite manager, we hear, did not think this was ok and wanted her to cover additional days after her notice period to make up for this. Like I said, they have been on friendly terms, so if the manager would have come up to her at work (instead of freezing her out as she has been) and asked her nicely if she wouldn't mind covering two days the following week, my friend actually would have said yes (she has a week off between jobs). Instead, she goes to my friend's NEW BOSS. Not our current bosses, who weren't contacted with the request at all. She went to the new employer who hired her at a separate company and asked if they could use her not only for two additional days next week, but two more days in the middle of next month when I'm on vacation and so is our backup. My friend got an email from her new employer relaying the request and obviously denied it.
This is just so crazy unprofessional I had to share. To add some more context, there are supposed to be four people in my department, but they have not managed to hire anyone else in the 10 months since I started (which I attribute to the combination of a shitty schedule including holidays and weekends, plus an absolutely unnecessary commute to the office for what is easily a remote job – the reason I eventually quit as well), and now they are down to just me.