“That’s a management problem to solve, am I being promoted?”

My company gave me 30 days of PTO +5 days I carried over (permitted in the contact) + 1 floating holiday

I had many issues with my boss trying to get a 3.5 week vacation approved 6 months in advance. I had to threaten with escalation to HR for him to approve them

At any job you are all a family …

… the thing is, no one ever said that this was a messed up chaotic, alcoholic, dysfunctional family that can’t get it’s act together.

I really want to know where this is from

That’s something we (i study computer science) learned in our 3 months of BWL (Business Management teachings). You got to calculate a rate of people getting sick, and have to higher enough people so that people getting sick is tolerable without things going to shit.

This is a management problem. They don’t have enough employees. And don’t dare to push yourself to do more work as compensation because someone is sick, unless paid for it.