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Then you must not have a very important job. The hypothetical person being discussed here is someone who multiple people depend on. Their work is critical to ot
by mystified5016 2y ago
Then you must not have a very important job. The hypothetical person being discussed here is someone who multiple people depend on. Their work is critical to other processes and blocks other work from happening. They own a lot of institutional knowledge that may not be shared evenly among other employees.
That's the point of the exercise: to identify mission critical people and make them not critical to the entire business. If your business hinges on one person who knows everything and works on everything, you're fucked if they disappear and you haven't ensured at least some redundancy.
- flohofwoe 2y agoWell yeah, that's why a vacation is a good test, "important job" or not. If the person needs to respond or even check in during vacation, the team needs to fix their process.
- fluoridation 2y agoThe way the other person phrased it made it seem like that kind of fake vacations are the norm, which is what I was replying to. >Most work [during someone's vacation] will just be queued up until the person comes back or worse the person will be contacted during vacation to answer questions, provide information or do some work. Nothing in that sentence implies that the person is referring exclusively to an especially important position.
- segmondy 2y agoYou must be lucky, but most people I know and from my own experience end up replying to email, slack or phone calls while on vacation and work piles up for them relative to how long they have been away.
- fluoridation 2y agoLike I said, I hope you're compensated accordingly. Off time is off time, and being on call has a price attached to it. If you're being treated like you're on call but without the corresponding pay rise, that's called wage theft.