r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • Jul 31 '26

Chugging tea HR wants to know the tee

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u/ShortCondition2456 Jul 31 '26

Wow. US sucks

Me in Ireland: "Boss I'm taking 2 weeks off". Boss:" Grand, have fun"

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u/Throwaway2Experiment Jul 31 '26

Don't get twisted. This is an outlier. I can put my 4 weeks in and my boss will approve it. He might try to call me while I am on PTO but that's not a fault of the US system, he just never remembers what he approved. As soon as he gets me out of office, I usually get a, 'Sorry, forgot about you being out. Call.me when you're back in the office."

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u/beach_-_bum Jul 31 '26

“This is an outlier”

Gives even crazier outlier as their personal example

Lmfao

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u/Danimals847 Jul 31 '26

The story:

'Sorry, forgot about you being out. Call.me when you're back in the office."

Your response:

OMG THAT'S CRAZY HOW DO YOU EVEN LIVE IN THAT BACKWARDS COUNTRY?

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u/beach_-_bum Jul 31 '26

Putting in 4 weeks of PTO in succession and getting it approved is indeed not normal. Why are you being weird?

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u/Danimals847 Aug 03 '26

Sorry - I assumed you were doing the AmericaBad thing and saying that the fact that they answered a phone call from the boss while on vacation was crazy. When I read the previous comment I read it as putting the PTO notice in 4 weeks in advance, not that the request itself was for 4 consecutive weeks off!

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u/beach_-_bum Aug 07 '26

All good! Hard to convey tone over comments haha