So I work for a novelty cafe downtown in Chicago. They hire mostly high schoolers and college students. This means they (usually) work around our school schedules and whatnot.
I am a college student that lives in an apartment near my campus, so I have to pay rent and utilities and internet and food and things.
Firstly, it's irritating because they assume that of you are on break then they can schedule you the whole break, which is not okay. They also block off holidays and days of high traffic to request off. Most of the summer is blocked because of holidays and events downtown.
It is February, and I let them know I will be out of town from May 11-June 11. A couple managers said that it sounds like I'm telling rather than requesting, and that some of those days are blocked off. I wasn't requesting, I was telling them. I feel like this is completely unfair, so I am going anyway.