Chief operating officer calls employee "unprofessional" for not answering the phone during PTO days: 'Is this old school thinking?'

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If you're a small business owner or the president of a huge company, perhaps you could expect this. When you signed up for the job, you knew it wouldn't stop being important just because you're on vacay. But that's not most of us. And it wasn't this worker, who found out his employers expected more of them than they could give. Read on for the story and see what you would have done.
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TIL it's "unprofessional" to have your work phone off while on approved and planned PTO

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Other workers chimed in to call out this behavior.

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