I’m currently on vacation out of the country for the holiday weekend. My main job gave me the days off no problem, but my second job denied them because holidays are blackout dates. I had this vacation booked and paid for months ago so I wasn’t going to cancel.
My second job has Protected PTO which removes points for absences and technically is supposed to protect you from retaliation. So I technically can’t get in trouble for calling out.
I’m curious to know who in this sub has done this before, and what was the outcome?
Requested days off for HS graduation, was denied because of the weekend. When I showed up for my shift on Wednesday I was deactivated and no longer employees. Went across the street to the other restaurant and got a promotion and raise.
At one place they just bitched and whined a bit.
The other fired me and then three weeks later had to hire me at consultant rates because a few of the clients refused anyone else to finish the projects.
If a place wants to fire you, they’ll find a way.
Mine was denied once and I went up the chain of command and it was immediately granted. Immediate supervisor hated me for it though and chewed me out . Lol.
I got fired for a no call no show at a restaurant i used to work at on 4th of july (we’re extremely dead on this day and it was the one time i asked for a day off)
I requested three weeks off from a different job months prior to the trip (i had booked this trip a year prior), and they had chose to not respond to my request. We ended up having a company change in ownership so i had to put in a separate request for leave of absence and they declined it but i left for my trip anyways. I came back and currently have the option to return to work if I just go to the doctor and obtain a statement saying that I’m fit and able to return to work but I ended up just getting a different job.
If anyone else is reading this and scared to hold their own especially in the food & beverage industry, make the leap. Every single time I’ve found something better and I think that getting fired actually helped me out in the long run lol
I had just been promoted to management. We did not have a store manager because the last one quit. District manager said I could not have time off till after a year when I would get the PTO. (It was the late 80s.) I said ok. I’ll take LWOP for my sister’s wedding and write the schedule so I have those days off. (no store manager so I was writing the schedule.) DM said no, you can’t have the days off and left it at that. “This is adulthood. sometimes you don’t get to do fun things.” This was retail. The days off I needed were Friday through Monday for an out of state wedding. So those would have been my two days off per week for those two weeks. I was 18 and had just moved out on my own. DM was just being an asshole but there wasn’t anything I could do. These dates were in August and it was June, so plenty of time to plan and have coverage. I think that he was being petty because I’d pushed for and got the $500 more than he wanted to pay me (that I knew they paid the man (I’m female) who had the position before me.)
New manager gets hired two weeks later and the district manager makes it a point to tell him I had asked for vacation and he had denied it. New Manager said to me “don’t worry about it.” He covered for me and didn’t let the DM know I took the days off. He also wrote the schedule so that I didn’t have to work ten days straight on both sides of the four days.
I had a co-worker do that. He requested time off, got denied, and took the time off to go with his family anyway.
When he came back, he was fired and immediately rehired. So he lost all of his PTO, IRA eligibility, and any seniority he had. They also cut his pay.
I thought that seemed shady at the time but never looked into it.
Once bought concert tickets months in advance, had it approved, just one day off lol, and then when the schedule came out I was on it, just scheduled an hour and a half later. I sent them an email calling out sick for that day. The manager on duty was pissed but nothing happened
The CEO jumped in at the last minute and scolded my boss for forcing me to escalate the issue when I obviously had to take time off for my own wedding.
Not me but I remember a coworker called in sick on a blackout date and was fired the day she came back.
I was a team lead at the time tried to warn her how company was and I think she thought I was exaggerating.
After she was let go the manager came to me and asked if I knew and insinuated if I had known and didn’t say anything I could have been disciplined to. Puh-leasw.
Yes I knew but I wasn’t the dang attendance police and wasn’t going to snitch.
In Europe, got denied 7 days off, called in sick came back after a week and nothing happened.
I made sure I was off sick on different days then originally denied not to raise suspicion.
I don’t understand that mentality. If people are good to you, you’ll want to work even harder for them. And the point of work is so that you can have a life. You should be able to attend to important things and do things that relieve the day-to-day stress.
I went on the vacation anyway with the assumption i would be fired, so the planned two week trip lasted 3 months.
Arrived home to find a letter asking me to contact them so they could officially fire me as because of the contract i had signed, until i was “notified in person of termination” they had to pay me as per the contract.
Your mileage may vary.
I was refused holiday after checking the holiday board and it was clear for the dates I was booking away, went and booked our little family break.
A week later I get an email saying I can’t have the time off because of completely unrelated circumstances, we replied to each other several times before me just thinking screw it why am I arguing.
I drove back to the yard just after lunch, handed them my keys and walked.
Funny thing is, I had the rest of that week off paid. I’m getting those dates I wanted off and I’m back working there with a 21% payrise- a few of my coworkers got the same payrise.
You owe your employers nothing more than your labor they pay for. Stop giving a fuck about people that would replace you like a lightbulb.
Stop asking for days off and just tell people you’ll be out these days.
If they say anything, laugh in their face and tell them that if they can’t afford you taking a vacation, they really can’t afford to fire you, you aren’t their slave, and you will take your pto that you earned.
Assistant manager was livid and screamed at me over the phone that I’d be fired if I didn’t show up.
I hated that job so I just never called them again. Two months later they asked when I wanted back on the schedule, I said never.
This was an officially approved 3 days off for Christmas they cancelled the day before because other coworkers kept calling in sick. Fuck that.