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Expecting some kind of fight over the leave I've requested. It's during a projected busy period, but it's not my fault they have a resource issue and will be overstretched if they do what they (management) are wanting to do.
There’s no fight. You’re not requesting leave, you’re telling them you won’t be available.
This is a great way of looking at it. I mean... if it comes to it I'll speak with HR to find out what my rights are. Because I wonder what happens if it comes down to it and I just don't turn up for three weeks. I've been here for over five years, so I don't think they can just outright fire me. And it's not like I'm sitting here waiting for a promotion, so it's not like I'm trying to be the good egg.
Sounds like my partner's job.
I hate this delicate dance employees still have to do when supposedly the jobs market is wide open. We should be fighting for (and winning) a lot of rights that have been stripped back over the years. I guess that's what happens when the unions have been all but dissolved.
God at my last job they marked certain periods as busy periods and it meant we weren't allowed to request time off or drop/swap any shifts we were scheduled for. Thankfully I never had any issues with it because the manager's mentality was essentially 'do whatever you want, as long as you can find cover' but I was just like that's a bit rude, how are you going to tell me what days I'm available to work 😂
Yeah, I worked at a job where certain areas had a black-out period and told myself never again - it's so fucking limiting. Especially for something that workers are entitled to. I hate how much we have to give up just to earn a wage. The role I'm in now has it's busy periods and it has its down periods, it really does depend on external factors which govern strategic decisions with project pipeline. I still maintain that if they can't cover one person's role for three weeks then how it that my problem? That's why managers get paid a higher wage, right? To manage?