I personally have had a problem with getting time off work. So I recognize my bias as I am not on LWs side.
What exactly is the "asking" time off? I know I have been at my job a long while but we have a form that is submitted to our boss. My current process is: check calendar, fill in form, submit form, wait for response. I don't ask. I submit a form. Am I also supposed to submit a wordy, lengthy, breathy "oh please kind boss, will you grant this request for me?" with my form? I don't think anyone else does. Since we have been home I have been submitting my forms by email with the time request in the subject line of my email "vacation request May 22" "sick time request 5/5" (that last was for a doc appt) if actually SICK I call and leave a message on her voicemail before work hours.
So say it isn't a form but an email? a slip of paper? All it needs to say is "time off request" and the date and or the date and time. How does this request happen? Also time off is a benefit of working. Something that everyone should receive (I know some who don't) and something everyone should be allowed to take as it is part of the payment plan of working. (I get it that some people don't work= don't get paid and I am so mad about that. people deserve both paid vacation time and sick time. it's terrible that that isn't true for everyone) LW can decide yes or no after it is submitted. BUT I am concerned that LW has already decided that they don't like this worker and will likely do things to punish this worker overtly and covertly.
Several years ago I would submit vacation request forms and they would never be returned. I would ask about them, be told they were lost, and re-submit. I would wait and wait. Sometimes up to a few days before my vacation. No response. Once I had 3 days I needed to take before losing them. She wouldn't answer me. I spent about an hour that day following her around with the form asking for her signature. (sidenote: yes I know how this sounds. It got THAT BAD.) It was annoying as hell for her and me. HR got involved. The problem with my work is "managers will decide how to grant vacations days in their own dept" HR told her to respond in a more timely manner. My boss now answers about 24-48 hrs after I request the time. But now my boss changes the rules for me and only me almost every time. Everyone else submits a request and either gets a yes or no. I get maybes. Perhaps. I'll think about it. I have been told I can't take a vacation day when x colleague is out. Then it was when ANY colleague was out. Then it was if my boss was out. Currently she prefers if I don't take any consecutive days.
LW when you suddenly feel like only one person is bothering you about their vacation and you want to make them see the error of their ways (and only theirs), then you have become the sort of person who doesn't deal with all workers the fairly and equitably. And that is on you to figure out how to break your habits and your biases.
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What exactly is the "asking" time off? I know I have been at my job a long while but we have a form that is submitted to our boss. My current process is: check calendar, fill in form, submit form, wait for response. I don't ask. I submit a form. Am I also supposed to submit a wordy, lengthy, breathy "oh please kind boss, will you grant this request for me?" with my form? I don't think anyone else does. Since we have been home I have been submitting my forms by email with the time request in the subject line of my email "vacation request May 22" "sick time request 5/5" (that last was for a doc appt) if actually SICK I call and leave a message on her voicemail before work hours.
So say it isn't a form but an email? a slip of paper? All it needs to say is "time off request" and the date and or the date and time. How does this request happen? Also time off is a benefit of working. Something that everyone should receive (I know some who don't) and something everyone should be allowed to take as it is part of the payment plan of working. (I get it that some people don't work= don't get paid and I am so mad about that. people deserve both paid vacation time and sick time. it's terrible that that isn't true for everyone) LW can decide yes or no after it is submitted. BUT I am concerned that LW has already decided that they don't like this worker and will likely do things to punish this worker overtly and covertly.
Several years ago I would submit vacation request forms and they would never be returned. I would ask about them, be told they were lost, and re-submit. I would wait and wait. Sometimes up to a few days before my vacation. No response. Once I had 3 days I needed to take before losing them. She wouldn't answer me. I spent about an hour that day following her around with the form asking for her signature. (sidenote: yes I know how this sounds. It got THAT BAD.) It was annoying as hell for her and me. HR got involved. The problem with my work is "managers will decide how to grant vacations days in their own dept" HR told her to respond in a more timely manner. My boss now answers about 24-48 hrs after I request the time. But now my boss changes the rules for me and only me almost every time. Everyone else submits a request and either gets a yes or no. I get maybes. Perhaps. I'll think about it. I have been told I can't take a vacation day when x colleague is out. Then it was when ANY colleague was out. Then it was if my boss was out. Currently she prefers if I don't take any consecutive days.
LW when you suddenly feel like only one person is bothering you about their vacation and you want to make them see the error of their ways (and only theirs), then you have become the sort of person who doesn't deal with all workers the fairly and equitably. And that is on you to figure out how to break your habits and your biases.