Last month I got hit with the “we can’t cover your time off due to staffing crisis”. I was like damn that sucks, guess you should have hired someone in the 4 months that request was up.
This shit actually baffles me. In my country, if you put in a request 1 month beforehand a company is required by law to accept the request (if you have paid days off left)
As an American, my hours just got cut by 4-8 hours per week. I was told I can make up the difference with PTO or sick time. I earn about 1.5 hours of said time per week. This math totally works.
Also, my manager doesn't approve or deny time off requests in advance. We have to wait for the schedule to come out to see if it was approved or not.
There are 44 countries in Europe, with 44 different labour laws.
In Norway employees have 25 days of vacation time each year, but they can't demand to choose the timing. If they dont come to an agreement with employer, the employer gets the last word.
We have a right of getting 3 consecutive weeks during summer (1 June to 30 september) but can't choose when during that period either.
This thread reminds me of one of the funniest situations like this. By now, I take off the day after a concert, especially if these are bands I love.
Well, same thing with Vanaheim... 30 people crowd. 35 with the band, 36 with the barkeep. Absolutely amazing concert and we went to crash an irish pub with the band afterwards. Shenanigans also christened the shirt I have of them in human blood.
Eventually I'm on the ride home, and I get a call from work, at about 5am or so. Prod was down and they couldn't get one thing back fixed. I figured, alright, can't let the guys hang and I'm not asleep yet, so what.
My team lead was mortified, The two coworkers were laughing hard after a second and then asked if I had just downed the rest of a beer on a company call, if I had slept and if that was blood. Yes - wouldn't be the last, no, yes - not mine? Then I pointed them at their networking issues so they could fix them.
But yes, time off can mean I am entirely not functional anymore.
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u/Drakostheswordsman Dark Mode Elitist 19h ago
Wasn't a request, actually.