Looked up at my calendar today (assistant manager, parts store) and saw that one of my guys marked off the ENTIRE week of thanksgiving. From the 20th to the 26th. My immediate thought was “dude there’s nooooo way you can take the entire week…no one gets to do that”
Where’s the balance for this shit? I’m on my way to becoming a store manager and will have to deal with these types of things in the future but I also don’t wanna be an asshole about it.
An entire week of vacation from a single employee in this kind of business structure just doesn’t work well and it puts undue stress on everyone else that also wants to be off and with family during the holidays…
What do good managers do in these scenarios?
Allow me to make a quick edit. If I had things my way we’d shut the fucking store down during the holidays and all still be getting paid. Unfortunately I live in AMERICA and don’t have that option because I’d be replaced by the next monkey that wants to work…an entire week is not that much in the grand scheme of things IF we actually fairly worked like humans should work