When you’re planning for PTO, do you ask your managers if it’ll be okay to take time off those dates or do you just give them kind of a heads up?

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I just let them know I’ll be off from A to B and that’s that.

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This is the way

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latter. i tell them. then i’ll throw a non blocking event invite on their cal so they don’t forget

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You know, if it’s a go live that day, that you’ve been working on for 6 months, then yeah, run it by the group. Otherwise. I coordinate any needed coverage. Then I send a calendar invite and I click off the “require responses” option. It’s purely FYI at that point

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I say “my plan is to take these days off, let me know if you forsee any issues!”

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Overly courteous. Never ask for PTO. Just give enough of a heads up in advance.

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Generally, my rule of thumb is tell/ don't ask, BUT do it smartly. Don't take off on major milestones unless completely unavoidable.

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2 weeks or more I ask, otherwise I tell.

Tell subtly in a way that sounds like an ask.

i just tell them, some old timers literally just throw it on team calendar, I do that but also tell management (courtesy? U can also phrase it as if it’s an ask but only if you know they won’t say no) especially if it’s longer, so u can coordinate hand-offs. Only exception would be work travel that they really might need me for

Taking 2 months end of this year and it was a heads up

Don't even tell the manager, make it a surprise

I just took 2 weeks recently - sent a calendar invite with my PTO dates to my team as early as possible. (And followed up with coverage) I didn’t ask. I don’t think we should have to ask to use the PTO we worked for.

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