After leaving a corporate environment for a non-profit admin role, I'm surprised by one thing: the minute I request time off, my manager asks, "Who is covering you?" I've had to personally find and train paid volunteers just for basic phone and visitor coverage. Since they can't handle my real job, this setup feels insane! Am I overreacting, or is having no built-in coverage highly unusual?

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Non-profits are kind of their own thing, very different from regular corporations. Finding your own coverage isn’t the craziest thing I’ve heard, but understand it can be difficult to do.

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I work in a small company and when in out my boss basically has do both of our jobs

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When I was in nonprofit I had no coverage. Basically they were left on their own to figure things out while I was gone with zero backup for the most part. There are a few things that required finding someone, like new hire onboarding, payroll (though it was a huge issue if I would have tried to take PTO during a processing time), and a few other things. Luckily it being nonprofit also meant I worked with a largely kind and giving group of people, so finding someone to step out of their duties to back up wasn't difficult. .e actually being a backup on a few things for the admin assistant before me is how I actually got the job when she retired.

Welcome to the non profit sector. Same for me when I worked in it. I had 80 hours on the table and worked 2 departments getting paid very little. I was always complimented for my dedication but sure didn't see any compensation

When I worked in nonprofits, my manager would just have to take over for me when I went on vacation. And she was always really unhappy about it, but at the end of the day, I deserve my time off that I've earned. I can't imagine trying to get volunteers to do that!

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