I planned a trip to South Carolina for 3 days told my manager a month in advanced and got the approval. Now the way they used to do pto they gave it to us all upfront every year, they just got bought out and now apparently we gotta accrue it. But I asked multiple times if l'd get paid for these 3 days and I was told yes and that'd l'd just be in the negative for pto which I already am. I literally asked 5 times before taking the days off because I couldn't afford to not get paid those 3 days. Well now it's pay day and they are telling me they can't pay me anymore pto and that I have to accrue it until I'm in the positives. Is there anything that I could do? They knew I was already negative a bit pto but continued to reassure me l'd be paid these 3 days. Now I have rent coming up and won't be able to pay.