To take your first week as holiday

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to accept a job offer and then have a holiday in your first week. It was an internal job offer with a significant pay rise. I’ve made lots of plans for their first week, only to just be told their current manager has approved that first week off?
now I have to rearrange all the meetings and plans.
am I being unreasonable to be miffed about this?

I think people are confused by the voting as the thread title is the opposite of the AIBU question in the thread. I think YANBU but maybe they thought you could do without them for another week.

Read the updates.

Start dates agreed and discussed. Holoday requested and approved after.

Not difficult.

How far out is their start date? If it's a 2+weeks to a month out, then yes YABU. Stuff happens as a line manager and having to reschedule may take a bit of time that could have been spent elsewhere, but honestly its all part and parcel of people management.
Ive brought in quite a lot of people into my teams over the years and would much rather they're away before they start versus have someone take PTO 2 weeks into onboarding (which I had a few years back, and I found it delayed their whole training schedule).

If they so happened to fall ill on their start date (which is a rare, but nonetheless real possibility), you would have had to do the same rescheduling, but with zero notice.

As its an internal move, I can understand a bit of frustration as this seems like it could have been avoided, but thats due to communication from all parties.

The leave was booked after the interview and after the start date was agreed.

I think that's a really odd thing to do. At the very least this person should have contacted you and said something to the effect of "I know I told you I had no holiday booked, but my friend has now asked me to go away that week/it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to take the break before starting the new job so I'd be coming to it really fresh/I've discovered a fantastic holiday offer for that week/etc - so would it be too inconvenient if I take that week off?" - and make it clear that if it is a pain then they won't go.

It's just a job. People are entitled to holidays. Stop taking yourself so seriously.

You need to be miffed with the manager. Not the employee.

Both of them!
The transferee for seeking permission from the wrong person and the manager for meddling in somebody else's department.

FFS love it’s just a week. Feel sorry for her with you as a boss..

It’s not difficult to put all the information in the actual post and not expect people to go through loads and loads of updates either. Somebody’s asking us to make a judgement on the post, that’s what I did - it there’s extra information relevant it should’ve all been put there.

Wow I bet you’re a delight to work with! People have a right to feel a bit put out if they’ve spent time arranging stuff for someone else’s benefit, and then find that person has changed plans without a discussion.