Always nice when the boss calls me and says, "I was hoping that Leadership or HR would excuse everyone early today for Thanksgiving. They haven't or maybe they will later. But nobody is excused early today."
Got it, boss.
"But just so you know, I'm not going to be checking whether people are online the rest of the afternoon. I got too much to do. And you do too."
Nope, me either, boss.
"You should let your team know that. You know, just so they don't think there's a problem because they aren't hearing anything from us. But don't do it on Teams, send it in text."
Gotcha boss. All over it.
"And if anyone tells us our people weren't responding promptly this afternoon, we'll just confess it was workload and poor supervision on our part and promise to do better."
Yup. That's what we'll do. Happy Thanksgiving, boss.