Boss Sent A Plane To Pick Up An Employee On Vacation After Not Being Able To Contact Him To Solve A Work Emergency

"I will never understand businesses inability to recognize a Bus Factor. How many people can get hit by a bus before no one knows how something is done."

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• August 23, 2022

As employees, you get benefits that are within your rights. You might have extra perks but there are standard things that are a must in every employment.

Whether it’s healthcare or bonuses, one of the essential rights of any employee is days off. This includes sick leaves and paid off-duty days.

Although, not every company or boss values their employees’ time. As long as they get what they want or need, you have to be able to do as they say or else you’re in their bad graces.

They instill the hustle life in you. On the upside, you’ll know what you’re working on like the back of your hand, on the downside, they might rely on you more even beyond the work hours.

Under normal circumstances, they would give you multiple calls when they need something solved. In one case, in particular, a Redditor retold the story of how his boss sent a plane to fetch him from vacation to save him from the mess in their office.

Sounds extreme, but OP is just annoyed that his vacation with his family is interrupted when he prepped and informed his boss beforehand. His boss didn’t fully listen to him, thinking that he can do OP’s job but he was wrong and learned it the hard way.

So how did OP's boss handle the problem when he was on vacation?

OP was the main guy or the only guy in the IT department but still handled different tasks

Before he went to vacation, he asked his boss to train someone to cover form him but the boss insisted that he can just learn it himself

When OP was on vacation, somewhere with no phone signal, he saw a police boat approaching

They had escorted him back to a ride back to his work

He cramped work in two days so he can head back to his family soon

This story didn’t just have a happy ending,

it’s double that

Redditors are suspicious of what kind of work OP really does if they can get the...

authorities to pick him up with just a request from the boss

Although it is uncommon for bigger companies to have other people from another department...

handle tasks not under their job description, small companies have it different

They’re suspicious of how important OP really is for...

them to send a plane for him and OP explained that it wasn’t that grand

OP replied and was apparently an all-rounder when it comes to tasks and he was allowed to do so at it was a different time

There's something off about the decision-making skills by the manager

The manager took desperate measures even if it wasn’t necessary

If it was this Redditor, they would’ve quit the moment the cops explained why they were there

Risk management is better than freaking out when you’re looking for a back up and realizing you have none

OP asking for someone to train wasn’t just for funsies

OP’s boss waved off his concern when he was trying to prevent a disaster from unfolding. His desperate measures to retrieve OP from his interrupted vacation weren’t the best strategy as well under pressure. 

In the end, OP’s co-workers must have been thankful that he cared about them and tried to solve what he can, which is the entire situation. He also ended up being the boss so that was a huge compensation after the mess.

Chelsi