Time off request rejected

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long have you been at this company? You said this is your first time requesting leave, so does this mean you started this job recently? You may still be in the probationary period and no leave allowed until it ends (ie 90 days).

Secondly, is this a remote job? If so, could you take your laptop and work phone and multitask during the college tour?

There’s something more to this saga that you’re not telling us, what is it? Stop playing the victim.

Are you currently on a PIP for anything?

She said in the OP she’s been there two years.

[Anonymous]

That’s total BS. Sorry OP

[Anonymous]

I wanted to be off on Friday and they said nope, guess someone will be Sick on Friday. Sorry not sorry. You might be able to take 2 days off

[Anonymous]

Call in sick the day before and the day of.

[Anonymous]

Helicopter parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take the sick day and update your resume.

+1. What kids of workplace is this? It sounds terrible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A workplace this rigid in the year of Al Gore's internet 2024 would have to pay a lot or have some other perks for me to stay and deal with this nonsense.

She could be a doctor, nurse, teacher or someone who needs a backup to be able to take off. My parent was a doctor and schedules would come out 3 months in advance. They made her haggle with her coworkers and trade days if she wanted anything off. Leave had to be put in months in advance.

Yes. Your PARENT and was indicates past tense. It's now the 21st century. And OP is a data analyst.

[Anonymous]

OP, it's probably not smart to quit until you have another job lined up, but if things get emotional, check out acess/expense of COBRA. You can get coverage while you are looking for another job.

This is not reasonable in this day and age for your company to be so inflexible. A lot of places are desperate for reliable help. What do you currently make?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many days a year are you supposed to get? If you haven’t used them ask why it was rejected?

We accrue time off. Now I have 11 days accrued, and sick time off. I would have been fine with time off without pay as well. They were very clear about the reason: you failed to give two weeks notice. I think it's ridiculous for one day off. Does no one ever have to take a day off for whatever reason without two weeks notice? We're not robots, life happens.

Maybe I’m being a little snarky here, but you tell us. You chose to work for a company with super rigid policies. Much of the corporate world these days is much more flexible with employee work life balance because they know they’d lose all their people if they required two week notices to take a single day off. This isn’t the 1950s and we’re all adults here. Sounds like you work for a very archaic organization.

[Anonymous]

OP here with an update. I ended up sending a short email asking them to clarify the rejection and reconsider it. I have not heard back (I sent it two days ago). They also still haven't told me about my June time off request I submitted over two weeks ago (they are supposed to within 5 days). I am just beyond pissed and upset at this point. I have taken one sick day in almost two years of working there, and zero PTO this year. I am a good employee and always get good reviews. I applied to a few positions yesterday and the night before. If I don't get the June time off I will have to quit.

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Anonymous wrote:Team call in sick day before, day of, day after. Oops covid and a nasty gi thing. Bedridden the whole time.

This place deserves zero respect. And they won't fire you because they'd never find another person to walk all over like this.

This. Their two week rule is ridiculous. How do they handle it if you have a home emergency like a pipe leak and have to stay home to meet the plumber? Sorry, go without water for two weeks until you can take a day off?

Start looking for a new job. I've never worked anywhere with these kind of rules.

That’s what the wife does.

LOL these archaic industries seem to think so!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[mastodon]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Team call in sick day before, day of, day after. Oops covid and a nasty gi thing. Bedridden the whole time.

This place deserves zero respect. And they won't fire you because they'd never find another person to walk all over like this.

This. Their two week rule is ridiculous. How do they handle it if you have a home emergency like a pipe leak and have to stay home to meet the plumber? Sorry, go without water for two weeks until you can take a day off?

Start looking for a new job. I've never worked anywhere with these kind of rules.

That’s what the wife does.

LOL these archaic industries seem to think so!

Time-off rejections are incredibly common in retail and healthcare. They are awful for workers. I was looking at the Antiwork Reddit and one person was denied their wedding day off, months in advance.

[Anonymous]

Your boss is a narcissist ass*ole.
I would quit. If this is gov job they are not allowed to refuse it without a clear reason as to why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your boss is a narcissist ass*ole.
I would quit. If this is gov job they are not allowed to refuse it without a clear reason as to why.

It's really HR more than the managers who are powerless and under the HR manager in rank. I have such stress over this situation, both about tomorrow and my June vacation. I hate not having things resolved, and I feel like I am letting my family down for a job that doesn't respect me. If it weren't for health insurance I would have quit I think, because I am so frustrated and feel like this whole situation is downright humiliating, having to beg for time off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your boss is a narcissist ass*ole.
I would quit. If this is gov job they are not allowed to refuse it without a clear reason as to why.

It's really HR more than the managers who are powerless and under the HR manager in rank. I have such stress over this situation, both about tomorrow and my June vacation. I hate not having things resolved, and I feel like I am letting my family down for a job that doesn't respect me. If it weren't for health insurance I would have quit I think, because I am so frustrated and feel like this whole situation is downright humiliating, having to beg for time off.

Leave work early today saying you are feeling sick.