So today I was told that the VP of operations for our region had a meeting with her about me taking too much time off I didn’t have time for. What she is talking about is the two days my manager gave me off for my birthday. The backstory is, my husband in the military and about to go on a two years unaccompanied tour out of the country. So I told my manager, per our conversation if that’s going to be the case, I’m going to take an LOA cause we have events lined up that I can’t miss. Just uttering the words LOA made me feel like garbage. I’ve been working for almost 10 years and it’s been jammed into my brain by manager after manager that LOA is some sort of personal failure. And I feel god awful that I’ve let myself get to this point of capitalist brainwashing. I have a legit reason for wanting an LOA, on top of my mental health being in literal shambles because of this job, but I still feel like I failed someone. Who? I don’t have the faintest idea. Don’t be like me kids. Use your rights