To think my boss is pathetic?

[Boringboss]

Been with my company for 4 years - in her team since May. She’s been here for 16 years.

She’s not horrible but a complete micro manager and if she’s ‘annoyed’ with you then she’ll just ignore you for days (work remotely).

I think she micro manages and keeps information to herself to make herself indispensable and irreplaceable to the company BUT my bug bear is about annual leave.

She boasts that she never uses her full allowance and hasn’t taken a holiday in 4 years because she is too ‘loyal’. On the other hand, I use my full allowance each year but others on the team seem to follow her lead and I have had a few snide comments about my recent holiday (one week OOO).

IMO life is too short to be ‘loyal’ to a company you don’t own and would sack you tomorrow if it benefited them.

@FriedDuck will also struggle to get good talent. Good talent have options, and they don't need to work somewhere they're passive-aggressively pressured to give back some of their compensation package. Fuck that shit; no one with self-esteem would put up with it.

This happened with one of my former colleagues. She was so stressed about going on leave, couldn't possibly leave ALL of her work. The world would end. She was forced to take two weeks off by HR due to concerns for her welfare.

I was leaving but had been asked to stay on and covered her work for those two weeks. I had everything done by lunch time each day. Her face was a picture when she came in after her leave and saw I'd done it all.

Our job was mostly admin and she used to spend hours on the phone to people over things that I dealt with in a 5 minute email.

If she intended to make you feel bad then she succeeded. 16 years is an awful long time so needing to boast about not taking holidays is a bit of a non starter. If the needs 52 weeks to do 46 weeks work then she's a bit of a failure. Don't follow the copycats - have a life !

In my former workplace it was mandatory that you took your main annual leave for two weeks. This was to ensure if there were any irregularities in your work then this would be a chance for this to manifest itself. This was finance. Somebody never taking leave would have been very suspect.

Mention that it took years in the past to get workers decent working conditions including annual leave