> Give them the minimum to keep them happy and keep your job and focus the rest of your energy on something that will benefit you. In my experience this is the

> Give them the minimum to keep them happy and keep your job and focus the rest of your energy on something that will benefit you. In my experience this is the type of person in your team that - instead of consulting colleagues to arrange holidays cooperatively and ensure there's cover available, and that parents do ok given the extra encumbrances they're subject to etc. etc. - goes ahead and books out a whole year's leave at the earliest opportunity to maximise their own benefit. Some of the least pleasant people I've had to work with were the ones that saw it as an inconvenience.