Employers are the cringiest of us all.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    16·
    21 hours ago

    I always just said “im taking this day off”. Never ask if you can take it off. Tell them what you’re doing so they can plan around it.

    • JillyB@beehaw.org
      8·
      21 hours ago

      Just to clarify for others, don’t tell your employer your outside-of-work plans. Just tell them you’re taking the day off. It may lend your time off “request” more legitimacy when you say it’s for a wedding or whatever, but that takes away from when you don’t give a reason. It also opens up your plans to judgement. If they press for a reason, just say it’s personal.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        5·
        20 hours ago

        Thank you, that’s exactly what i meant. “Tell them what you’re going to do” just means tell them you’re taking the day off.

        I appreciate the clarification. I see that how i worded it could be mistaken.

        If they press for a reason, just say it’s personal

        100% absolutely.

      • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        131·
        20 hours ago

        Oh, he declared he was using his PTO from the plane and did not wait for it to be accepted or declined.

        Like he texted his supervisor the day after a no call no show saying his kids gifted him plane tickets so he won’t be back until Jan, from the tarmac.

        So, sort of a different situation.

        • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          20 hours ago

          The “wait for it to be accepted or declined” part is where most in this thread diverge. Time off is a notification, not a request, no matter what the HR platform or managers call it. Now, you can be a dick about it and not give any lead time for management to prepare for your absence, or not, and that would have obvious consequences.

          I’ve always treated it as a notification, not a request, even early in my working career when in retail where you have low-skill power-tripping middle managers that think they can just say no. I was never fired for it, but you can be sure those managers hated me for it, nonetheless. Zero minutes of sleep lost.

          • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            4·
            18 hours ago

            That’s also gonna vary between countries - where I live there is a legally mandated mandatory amount of days of vacation per year, but to my understanding the employer decides when you get to use them - you do get a few days of on demand time off, but that’s separate from the bulk of it. So, unless you’re using one of the few on demand days off, it is indeed a request, and the employer can deny them.