I relate to this so hard. Like, I wasn’t asking you if I could go. I’ve booked it, I’ve given you notice, if you are still blindsided when I’m gone, that’s on you.
I hit the point in my professional life when I just stopped asking for time off.
I started using phrases like “I will be out from July 15th to August 9.”, “I won’t be in that day.”, “Sorry that conflicts with my schedule.”.
For a while I kept getting random calls for stuff while I was on vacation. That’s about the time I started carrying 2 phones. The work phone and laptop got left at home.
That’s the way. I have three phones, the two non-work phones are 1. for friends and family, 2. for everybody else. On top of that, one of these is actually a dumb phone. Can’t stand the distractions.
Exactly. It’s not a request, it’s a notice.
If I give you notice before you have finalized the schedules for that month then it’s not a request. I am letting you know I ain’t gonna be there and you need to sort that out lol.
I quit a job once when I had a vacation planned well in advance and my manager told me 2 weeks before I was going to go, “Oh by the way there’s this time intensive project you have to have done before you go.” It was something that would either require me to work 12-14 hours a day to get done in time, as a salaried employee, or miss my vacation.
My response was, lol, here’s my two weeks notice. That was just the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. I hated that manager, and don’t regret my decision even though it did take a while to find another job
So I put in a week for around christmas, 30 days prior. My boss comes to me 2 weeks later and says “actually we have to do inventory that week so we need you to stay.” I asked, why dont we do it this week instead and was told essentially “this is when management needs it done” so I said cool do it without me. Came back from vacation, never got in trouble and actually got offered a raise like 1 month later lol. Place was fucking toxic tho so I left.
