The real reason Now what ? When Sanjay , one of the accounting technicians on your team , sent an email asking for two weeks 'vacation next month to visit a friend's cottage , you had to say no - not because you needed him for the ongoing project to integrate a new module of the human resources information System into the weekly management reports your team generates , although that's what you told him . The real reason was because of a fast -approaching project , still confidential which Sanjay is the only one with enough experience to lead . In his follow -up email , Sanjay discounted your reason for saying no: "Don't worry about the human resources project . Julie has been helping me , and is just as familiar with it as I am . Besides , it's winding down now ; it won't need two people from our team by next month . Julie can handle it while I'm at the cottage , and I'll make sure she can reach me in case anything comes up . So can I take those two weeks off ?&quot