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ay, Morgan Stanley! The “global leader in executing transactions in cash equity-related products for institutional clients around the world” gave an employee some extra time off to cheer at Wimbledon for her brother, tennis play
er Ben
Shelton. This is a quirky feel-good story, but it brings up a question of when should you grant exceptions. It may well be that this wasn’t an exception anyway—most likely, Ben’s sister, Emma Shelton, hadn’t used all her vacation days anyway, so getting approval for more time off was a matter of asking her supervisor. The supervisor would have been foolish to say no, because the