#WorkplaceIssues #BossProblems #TimeOffDenied
Hey everyone! This sub always reminds me of the time a boss denied my three days off at the last minute after approving it a month earlier. 🤦♂️
My response: “I wasn’t asking your permission, I was informing you of my availability on those days.” The look on that young manager’s face was priceless! Needless to say, I moved on soon after. 💼
Possible solution so others can benefit:
– Communicate clearly and confidently with your boss when requesting time off
– Keep a record of any approvals or agreements made regarding time off
– Have a backup plan in case your time off request is denied
Share your thoughts and similar experiences below! Let’s learn from each other. 💬 #WorkplaceStories #CareerAdvice
I just tell my boss “I’m not going to be there on _________” and if he doesn’t like it I guess I’ll find another job
Baller response!
I’m going to Europe in August and informed my boss I was going on vacation for August. He asked what week and I said again August. The silence was impressive. To be honest I informed my office over 8 months ago and in April/may finalized the dates and they still acted like I did something wrong.
Or the time my manager approved Mon-Thurs, then the weekend before called to say I had to work Wednesday because they couldn’t work coverage. I was going out of town (and did).
I had something sorta similar to this happen to me in my early 20s. I was working in IT at the largest brokerage firm on Wall Street at the time. I put in vacation time almost a year in advance for Memorial Day weekend because my friends and I rented a house on the Jersey shore.
I went down on there Thursday night. Friday at like 1am I get a page. I call back its my boss. He says he needs me to come in. Tell him I cant I’m down the shore and drunk and that he approved this vacation months ago. He says he’ll send a car and I’ll sober up on the ride. I tell him no. He tells me if I dont come he’ll accept that as my resignation. I said “ok, thats fine”.
A week later HR calls me and I tell them the story. I have a meeting in HR with her and my manager where I tell her the story as I watch my manager visibly uncomfortable because he knows he fucked up.
HR lady tells me if I want my job its still mine and tells my manager that what he did was not acceptable. I refused and said that he’ll just make my life miserable if I stay so I’ll pass.
It turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I took a few weeks off to decompress then took a job at a different brokerage firm where I had an amazing boss and wound up staying there for like 11 years completely happy.
It reminds me of being forced on unpaid maternity leave two weeks before my due date. And then having to go back two weeks early because my husband had lost his job. Two weeks with my newborn. And we’ve never recovered from that lack of bonding time.