One wronged worker took to Reddit’s “r/antiwork” subreddit to share her interplay together with her boss after reserving a visit to Europe and hoping to make use of a few of her PTO.
She claimed it was a birthday journey, and whereas planning together with her associates, they landed on seven to 9 days of trip, claiming that due to the gap it solely made sense to go that lengthy. Nonetheless, it didn’t make sense to her boss as he made it troublesome for her to take break day.
Her boss denied her trip request as a result of it ‘wouldn’t be honest’ to everybody else.
She supplied context behind the state of affairs as a way to give the folks of Reddit the total scope of every little thing, writing in her put up, “I’m going away in a pair [of] months for a birthday journey, we’re going to Europe so it is smart to go for an excellent 7-9 days.” Nonetheless, she defined that her “boss denied my trip and mentioned I can solely go 5 enterprise days as a result of it’s unfair to my different co-workers,” she defined.
“I don’t perceive how two days makes a distinction, I additionally requested everybody else in my workplace and nobody has a problem or is taking break day at the moment.”
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She shouldn’t even have needed to ask everybody within the workplace about this — if she has the PTO, then she ought to have the ability to use them. Regardless, she requested everybody within the workplace and everybody appeared to be nice with it, however she went above and past to elucidate why it could be utterly nice for her to take that many days off.
If the boss’s argument of “unfairness” was as a result of it could create extra work for her coworkers, she argued that the workplace is “totally staffed and that I’m going at a time that it’s truly very gradual within the workplace because it was additionally gradual final yr.”
Her boss nonetheless refused her the times off regardless of their coworkers giving her the thumbs up.
“My boss threw a complete match and mentioned that it’s unfair to everybody else for me to take so many days off,” she writes. “I mentioned I don’t get how that issues as loads of folks have gone on trip and lots of people within the workplace have gone away on the similar time.”
However lots of people within the feedback of her put up defined why it truly does matter — as a result of he’s not the one happening a visit to Europe for two weeks. “The boss was simply envious,” reads the highest touch upon the put up.
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A number of others mocked him, and others informed the lady to face up for herself. “You’re not ASKING for trip, [you’re] giving NOTICE that you simply’re taking [a] trip,” somebody wrote. “Don’t let your boss BOSS you round. Stand your floor. I’ve NEVER been denied a trip request.”
Individuals claimed that her boss might have been bluffing and that she ought to go on trip no matter what he thinks. In spite of everything, if she already paid for the tickets and had every little thing deliberate out, it was out of her management anyway.
Isaac Serna-Diez is an Assistant Editor who focuses on leisure and information, social justice, and politics.
