I put my time into our Time Management System which goes to my manager for approval - not to OK my time off, I can take off days whenever. The manager approval is mostly to deduct the hours from my bank of time. I also send an "appointment" with my days off to her and the two others on my team so we can see when we will all be out. My teammates do that as well. My manager does not. Her boss does not. I think her boss tells her I'm going to be out and she should cascade it down to us. She didn't do that either.
We are literally in the middle of launching a huge global initiative, taking over one floor in our home office/corporate headquarters with graphics, games, etc. that I had to manage the installation for. Co-worker A who has a big role was there with me both days. Direct Mgr, who has even a bigger role in it, is on vacation with her family all week. This work is being done this week because we have a video shoot with the Chairman/CEO/, the President and about six other high level execs Monday and Tuesday. So, in my opinion for two people who are largely responsible for all this work, it's the wrong week to not be in the office, but whatever.
In addition, as I mentioned, we have our own team meeting the same two days as the video shoot for which I've been asked to do a bunch of things by Team Mgr. Stupid things that her admin can do but she asked me to do them. I was on a call yesterday with co-worker B who is flying in for the meeting and has never been in the building and asked her if she knew where she was going. She says "I was assuming someone was going to send instructions." That was most likely going to fall on me, because it always does, but no one told me, so I figured it was discussed with the four flying into town. Nope. I reached out to Team Mgr to ask her quickly what they were told, did I miss an email to do this, etc. and that's when I got her out of office. That's when I vented to Co-worker A, who knew the Team Mgr was away for a few days. If I did not send her that email yesterday, she would send an email on Friday to the whole team to say safe travels, looking forward to seeing you all and mention if they needed badge access to reach out to me and I would find out Friday afternoon late that I need to get names to security, etc. So my life gets affected. Everyone else on the team seems to be aware of her time off, but not me. She's back to work today and told me they were all supposed to reach out to me for badge access and none of them did.
While I am empowered to make decisions, etc. there are times I need to get approval or information from Direct Mgr and Team Mgr and it's usually a rush because I get brought into things so late that things have to get done in a hurry. And if they don't give me a two-second "BTW I'm out for a few days but you can text me if you have any questions" I get a bit annoyed. Team Mgr hardly ever puts her time off into Outlook so it's not like I can check there.
I realize I've been venting here quite a bit lately. I'm buying several MegaMillions tickets this week.
