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now I get it
Jun. 13th, 2022 05:52 amAt the last big company meeting, my workplace announced that in addition to the Monday July 4th holiday, they would also (unexpectedly) be giving us July 5th off. As a treat. (cue instant suspicion)
And THEN they said they were encouraging all managers not to schedule any key meetings for that entire week, so that people would have an easier time taking the additional three days of the week as PTO if they wanted. (even more suspicious)
This was all presented as if it was a purely philanthropic, goodness-of-their-hearts, sincere desire to show gratitude and appreciation to employees decision. Which is -- not exactly something our workplace is known for. (Things that make money and make the company look good, and as an unintended but acceptable side effect benefit the employees? Much more likely.)
AND LO. The mystery has been partially resolved. Turns out that not ALL employees will be getting July 5th off; the maintenance teams will all be working on-site redoing some of the floors. So no one else could have gone into those buildings anyway! It's possible that the extra encouragement to use PTO the rest of the week is because 1) they know no one really gets any work done that week anyway; 2) they really want people to stop bugging them about offering PTO payouts again (a one-time pandemic offer); and/or 3) some important exec wants to take that week off and is going all out to avoid anyone trying to pull them into meetings during their vacation.
And THEN they said they were encouraging all managers not to schedule any key meetings for that entire week, so that people would have an easier time taking the additional three days of the week as PTO if they wanted. (even more suspicious)
This was all presented as if it was a purely philanthropic, goodness-of-their-hearts, sincere desire to show gratitude and appreciation to employees decision. Which is -- not exactly something our workplace is known for. (Things that make money and make the company look good, and as an unintended but acceptable side effect benefit the employees? Much more likely.)
AND LO. The mystery has been partially resolved. Turns out that not ALL employees will be getting July 5th off; the maintenance teams will all be working on-site redoing some of the floors. So no one else could have gone into those buildings anyway! It's possible that the extra encouragement to use PTO the rest of the week is because 1) they know no one really gets any work done that week anyway; 2) they really want people to stop bugging them about offering PTO payouts again (a one-time pandemic offer); and/or 3) some important exec wants to take that week off and is going all out to avoid anyone trying to pull them into meetings during their vacation.
