When a company I used to work at did the same, one of my coworkers started taking a "vacation" every other Friday and Monday. The same guy rarely used vacation time before, but was pretty much unavailable every other weekend after that. I left within a couple months after the change. Management seemed to be more concerned about average number of Jira items closed as opposed to real progress on the project(s) in question.
> The same guy rarely used vacation time before, but was pretty much unavailable every other weekend after that.
Oh no, somebody setting boundaries and not working weekends? Unacceptable!
It's certainly possible there were other issues, but to me this sounds like sour grapes for not having the courage to pull off such a genius move yourself.
It sounds like he was working a weekend, then taking the two days surrounding the following weekend off, and repeat.
Assuming that's correct, what are you complaining about here? That the guy was time-shifting his weekends, or that he was actually making use of the policy?
I'm not sure were the perception is coming from.. I think it was brilliant... not a complaint at all. Effectively was taking a 4-day weekend every other week and working 4-day weeks.
The unavailable thing came down to being reachable in case of a support issue... I have no gripes about it what so ever.
So every other Friday or Monday ~= 25 days per year. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Personally I prefer vacation in blocks but others don't. He also stopped being available on weekends? Sounds like decent life/work balance.
No idea if he was otherwise a good co-worker but neither of those facts by themselves raise a flag for me.
I think it was awesome... and personally didn't have issue with it at all... a 4-day weekend every other weekend and 4-day work weeks seem pretty nice to me. It was actually one day a week, so ~52 days... he would just block every other friday, with the following monday... so one week he'd work M-Th, the next Tu-F.
