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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Talk to your manager. Apologize for the short notice (less than your two week rule, but not actually all that short). Tell him/her this is really important to your family and you'd appreciate the flexibility and consideration.

If they say no, ask why.

If the reason is lame, call in sick, update your resume and leave as soon as you can.

Time off is supposed to be a BENEFIT of working for your employer, but it's not much of a benefit if they won't let you take it. That's a bad sign of what they expect from people.

If you haven't actually talked to your manager and only submitted the request through an IT system, that's where you need to start. [/quote]

I posted above. The ship has sailed! Of course I talked to my manager (who did reject the request, not IT) and then my manager's manager. The first response provided no detail, even when I asked. The second response was nonsensical: I was asking for over 40 hours of PTO for a week. I was not. I explained this. I was told no, this is over 40 hours (again, it wasn't), like some sort of surreal dialogue, hitting a wall. It made absolutely zero sense, it was time I had accrued too. I could have quit, kept arguing into a void, or sucked it up so I sucked it up. Honestly that was partly because this vacation was VERY important to me (seeing my mom post surgery, abroad) and there was no way I wanted drama in my head during the trip. But if you read above, it was also linked to a major HR issue[/quote]

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