Throwaway. At my very small company I have managed to kind of fall face first into a management role over time. After the owner of the company (my boss) called me a “manager” to a client, I took it and ran with it. Now I'm solidly “The Manager.”
We are currently hiring to fill a position that recently opened up, which inspired me to create an employee handbook (there wasn't one before) and go over policies and benefits for all employees and make sure we're all on the same page. Before this, the information was super nebulous and not clear at all. Everything except the paid time off. Now the pto days available we're absolutely pathetic, only 5 days after working with the company for TWO YEARS. When writing up the new handbook, I made multiple tiers, allowing employees to earn more PTO the longer they're with the company, but starting with a minimum of 10 days after 1 year (still not ideal but I didn't want to push it).
When reviewing the handbook, my very absent-minded and often verbally abusive boss asked about this saying “I thought it was only five days?”, to which I replied, “hmm idk, the old handbook said this was what it was, and it seems pretty standard. Do you want me to change it?” He said “no I guess if the old one said it then it's true.” There was no old handbook.
This guys is a millionaire, so a few extra PTO days wont kill him, but makes such a big difference for my awesome crew. I couldn't be more pleased.