Wouldn’t the world be such a better place if people LISTENED to others?

I sure think it would!

And it would make things flow a lot smoother, too…

The person who wrote this story on Reddit knows all about that fact of life and they were nice enough to talk about it with readers.

Check out what happened!

Interrupted Vacation.

“I was the company IT department. I asked several times to be given someone to train as my backup, but they stalled and stalled on it.

Time came for my vacation and I asked my boss who was going to get out payroll and other necessary functions while I was gone, these were the old main frame days when IT did these tasks.

Boss said I was to train him to do it, he had the attitude of ‘how hard can it be?’

They did their best…

So for the week prior to my vacation, we went through all the routines, he took copious notes, I thought he would do ok. The problem was where I was going there were no phones, so if they got stuck I couldn’t help, I did give the approximate location where this cabin was.

Tuesday I’m out on a lake fishing with my kids and I see a police boat approaching. I’m not worried, I have permits and required equipment. Police pull up and ask for me by name, they said that my company had called, they were sending a plane to pick me up at an airstrip nearby.

Get there ASAP.

This is ridiculous!

So I had to leave my family, others were there, the police led me to the airstrip where the plane was. I got to a phone at the strip, called in, nothing had gone right, hundreds of paychecks were not ready, it was payday and people were upset. My boss was apologetic for a change.

I got back and did 5 days work in 2 days, they flew me back Thursday night. I negotiated another full week plus cabin rental, and boss insisted I train a new employee.”

Let’s see what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person spoke up.

Another individual shared their thoughts.

Another Reddit user had a lot to say.

This reader spoke up.

This whole situation worked out pretty well for them!

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