I worked retail for a decade in the US. At my last job, I got concert tickets. I told my bosses, three months in advance, when the concert would be. I asked for either the Fri/Sat off, or the Sat/Sun off, since the concert was on Sat. They swear they'll take care of it. The schedule for the week of the concert goes up. My only day off is Sun (which never happens in retail), and I'm working so late on Sat that I'll miss half the concert. I look on the schedule and see that one of my coworkers has the Sat off. I ask if she's willing to take my shift. She says yes. Management tried to yell at me for "forcing" Coworker to take my shift. Coworker looked at them and said, "No, not really, I've been begging for more hours, so I don't mind." "Oh..." So that's how I got the Sat/Sun off.

Amazing how often these posts are made by people who are so insanely indispensible to a company that is a house of cards that if they take one day off the whole place collapses. Or maybe I'm a cynical git.

I assume this is the US (it usually is). Are there no Adults working in the US as managers? When human people talk to and request time off from other human people, there is a real conversation and accomodations are made. Why are there so many stories from the US where humans cannot talk to other humans and reach agreement? You have time off as part of the terms of employment. That's just reality. We have important events in life. In most of the civilised world, if you give reasonable notice, the manager will say "Ohh a wedding, cool, what are you going to wear? Yes, do you just need the Saturday? or the Friday too? I hope you have a great weekend! Send me the pics!"

I once accepted a new job but let them know that I already had a vacation planned that I would be taking soon after I started, even though I hadn't earned the time off yet. They said "fine, no problem", in an email thankfully. Then when it came time for me to leave they tried to tell me I had only said I'd be taking a few days off and it wasn't appropriate for me to take a whole week this soon. When I told them I had an email confirming they said it was OK they got all shifty and stuttered, like they knew they'd been caught in a lie. I took my vacation and enjoyed it. Then I quit 6 months later because it was the worst job I've ever had! Lying about my vacation approval was just a precursor to their standard BS. It only got worse from there. I've never quit a job without having another one lined up, but it was the best thing I could have done for myself. I now have another job I'm very happy at and I'm SO glad I didn't stay there. :)

I have one (first I want to say I love my job and my boss is a good person and it isn’t his fault that it is kind of chronically understaffed) anyway I coach chess and I had to miss one of the practices for a world robotics tournament and I told him when I wouldn’t be there and the look of confusion on his face was kind of funny like dude I have my plane ticket I’ve been building this robot for 8 months this isn’t a request I’m just letting you know (again no shade at the boss he’s chill) last thing if you do know me in person (Idk who’s on bp please don’t like make this a thing my name isn’t common so if you go to my school like dont attack me in the comments

Had an employer once tell me I couldn't take time off to get married! I told them to shove it. After a whole summer of getting screwed out of overtime (bc I was not there 90 days) while being made to work every holiday, getting yelled at for being over hours when I was constantly made to stay at my station until they released me knowing it would be over, that was it for me. Employers need to get an understanding I work for you but you don't own me. A concept many companies forget but slavery was oblished in the US a long time ago.

Someone mentioned HIPAA, stating that your employer cant ask you medical questions. People should really research what HIPAA is and what it isn't. A employer can ask you anything they want about medical issues. They can not discriminate against you because of it. The security section of HIPAA says that health care professionals can not disclose a patients sensitive health information without the patient's consent or knowledge.

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

If your company fell apart in 3 days while you weren't there, that's a coincidence. The company was obviously having problems previously so get over yourself and tame that ego.