I started doing bike delivery after school until I figure out what to do next & to earn some money on the side. I love what I do and I love my coworkers, but everything else regarding management, HQ etc etc is mediocre at best. I've been there for 1 1/2 years now and therefore one of the oldest on the team.
Since this job was only temporary for me from the beginning (as well as it is for everyone else on the team), I went to apply for an internship. I knew it was gonna be in march & it was 3 weeks, but didn't know when exactly or which days of the week. I told my manager about this about 5 weeks beforehand (end of jan/beg of feb) and that I couldn't yet put in a PTO since I didn't know the specific dates yet.
Last week I got the dates (CW10-12). When I told my manager that I applied for the PTO, he said it wouldn't be possible since other coworkers already have PTO during that time (they didn't/it wasn't approved yet when I first talked to him about march). I even offered to work saturdays beforehand, since the internship would only be during weekdays and I knew others would be missing, most importantly to save PTO days tho. May I add that we had 3 full-timers missing during the first 2 weeks of feb, whereas I'm only part-time even.
“I really like being (field of work) & I would love to continue doing that after march. However I need you to understand that I can not let (company) interfere with opportunities regarding my future. (company) is not a company that any of us plan to have a long lasting career in.”
I would assume he understood, what I meant by that. He texted back that he would like to discuss this in person. When I got to work then, it pretty much came down to, that I cannot take time off in march, but I could take as long as I want in april (longer time off while using the same amount of PTO days), which would have been great, but isn't really of any use for me since I needed the time in march.
Anyway, I handed in my resignation at the beginning of my shift this monday (with the intend of just reapplying afterwards actually). “It's a pity, man” was his reaction. That really hurt. He's a nice dude usually, subpar at scheduling and takes the job a little too seriously most of the time, but he's not a bad person. I just left and continued with my shift then.
Now it gets interesting. A few hours later, he comes up to me: “So you really wanna leave us, huh?” and I go “no man, obviously not”. He told me that he cannot accept my resignation and that we can make it work. Maybe he thought I was bluffing when I texted him. Maybe that was what it needed for the higher-ups to agree. IDK. I will now work friday evening shifts (after the internship + I dont have to wake up early on the weekend) and saturday evening shift. Not quite what I was looking for, but I have the time off that I need for the internship, tips are better on friday & saturday + I save 3 more days of PTO, so its fine by me, even though it will be a pretty tough 3 weeks for me.
Anyway, fuck work and fuck this specific bullshit in particular. Glad I got my time off.