I submit early to give them time to find coverage. They wait and wait and just let it sit pending. Than comes around the time you go and they deny saying they do not have coverage. My management has put unofficial blocks on when you cannot take time that equals to about half the year. So when it comes to vacation approving time, they never have enough people to cover.
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You’re managers are doing a poor job. I’m a manager and I process new requests every week. I never leave them pending more than a few days. If I approve time off early, then I have plenty of time to work on vacation coverage. If your manager is leaving your request for PTO pending for any length of time that means they aren’t doing their job right.
I enjoy when there is "not enough coverage" when they deny it 5-6 months out. It's especially enjoyable when the ones denying it are ines who seem to get vacation time in every few months.
Hey here’s one for you quit it’ll be a permanent vacation for you!!!! Let me guess you’d rather come on here like a child and complain poor me.
We block out Nov and Dec for obvious reasons and the month of inventory until we have the exact date. Other than that we approve unless someone else has already requested it. Depending on the area, multiple people can have off. I do moat of the schedules in the club and approve most of the time off. If we run short, it is what it is.
That's is a huge problem in every club. You have to bug them constantly. After bugging a few times, I'll wait until I see them in the office then go in there and bring it up. I'll be like, hey since we're in here let's go approve my days off. They have always ended up doing it at that point. But I literally sit there until they do it right in front of me.
I tell my manager what I put in for once. Then, if its still pending inside of their arbitrary 3 weeks, I take a picture of the computer screen, showing the day it was put in, and then I take the time off. Its not my job to remind them to do their job. They've got every department running short handed.
Agreed, I would ask my manager every single day until it was approved. I've done it before.
I bug the snot out of them until they make a decision.