Rubber Stamp Rambo
May 14, 2012 Leave a comment
So this guy comes into my office and says:
I need to take Monday and Tuesday of next week off. Is that okay?
Of course it’s not okay. Monday is a crucial day in the life of Startup Incorporated. Never mind that it will be the 375th consecutive such crucial day. Absolutely critical I tells ya. Critical!
In my ventures over the last ten plus years, my CEOs gave me a hard time about every single vacation day I ever took. Every. Single. One. Three days, seven days, one day, half day – didn’t matter. So in the spirit of being a real manager I tried, I really tried to think intelligently about whether in fact Monday was a good day for this guy to take off. Once. And my brain hurt so I stopped. There is no answer to that question.
When someone comes to you with a vacation request, break out the rubber stamp, Rambo, and get stamping. There is never a good moment for this guy to go on vacation so smile, rubber stamp it and wish him good luck at the D&D convention.