Surely the manager could have covered for two hours, that would be leadership. Slightly related funny story, friend of mine was in the first few dozen employee

Surely the manager could have covered for two hours, that would be leadership. Slightly related funny story, friend of mine was in the first few dozen employees of an engineering company that now employs 35,000 people around the world. His boss came to him and said, "What would you do if Joe down the road offered you $10 an hour more?" (in the days when $30ph was top pay). My friend thought and said, "I would have to take it." To which his boss said, "Good answer, because if you had answered otherwise I would have to sack you for being stupid."