(I apologize for any mistakes. English is not my first language)
I have been working for a really big audit firm. On the outside the firm is known as one of the best audit firms and usually because of its reputation people tend to belive working for such an employer is great, but it is quite the opposite.
As most of the firms employees, i started working at it right after finishing college. Starting salary is the mimium wage, you can only get promoted after a year of working for the firm and the promotion is for only 100 euros more per month.
As the work consists of audits of other companies, we were not allowed to take any vacation days during the main audit season. Now that the main season is ending i have handed in my 4 weeks resignation and i wanted to take all the vacations days i have left, as thats what most people do after resigning (i live in europe, not sure how resigning is like in other places). The employer won't let me take most of them as they said i am needed for the work process to continue normally ( i was granted only 5 days, but i have 10 more vacation days left). Meanwhile one other employee was granted 2 weeks of vacation days and another employee just told me that they mostly want me to work for as long as posssible before leaving, so other employees wont have to work as much. I have been working nonstop since i started working here, there hasn't been a week without overhours for the past half a year and i have not taken a single vacation day since working for the employer for 10 months.
I have no idea if i can actually do anything at this point. I just wanna get my vacation days and rest after one hell of a 10 months working here.
Any tips or kind words would be appreciated!