Everytime I listen to management talk a quote comes to mind.

“Stop, I say stop it boy, you're doin’ a lot of choppin’ but no chips are flyin”

Foghorn Leghorn

Followed by

“Boy, I say boy, pay close attention to me, "cause you're a burrito short of a combination plate."

Foghorn Leghorn

Company management can not spell CHESS let alone play it. Most likely they walked back vacation proposal because they went back to their 486DX computer and realized they couldn’t change how they have always done it without buying a new program. New programs stopped being made for that thing in 1994.

This company has been lucky, simple as that….there is no other explanation.