Curious to hear how people handle out of office and vacations. Do you say you’ll be unavailable for xyz days or do you ask for approval?
I just put it into my calendar and we have unlimited pto. Trust me nothing I do is important enough to warrant any push back
The only reason I didn't try running my own business is this. I rather work for someone and just inform them I'm not going in. If they give me hard time taking time off, then I'd move to another company.
I used to ask during internship, now I never ask even when I am the on-call.
It is supposed to be a professional environment so you just be professional and let them know that you'll be unavailable during this period.
1. If you know of a planned vacation or time off, it is basic courtesy to inform your manager and your team as soon as your plans are finalized. You work with your team and telling them in advance so that team can plan in advance. This isn’t permission seeking, but let others know. 2. If it is an unplanned day off for being sick or something else, let your manager and team know in team channels with information on when you plan to get back. 3. If there is sudden family emergency that comes up and you need to be out for multiple weeks, you should let your manager know with true reason so that he can help cover for you. 4. If you want to take like 3 weeks of every other month without any proper heads-up to your manager and team, you have other priorities in life than job and you should be thrown out.
I submit the request as far in advance as possible.
It depends. If it’s a day here or there I just do it. If it’s a week or more I tell people so nothing gets disrupted and so they don’t bug me on vacation.
If I ever found myself asking for time off I'd wonder wtf went wrong in my life to make me this subservient
You’d be surprised, my friend (at a big tech company) had his boss question who approved his time off. Thats what made me curious.