These past few weeks I've been working overtime, because my employer told me they really needed the extra hands. I told them that I would prefer not to work too much overtime because of my mental state but got told that there's pretty much no other way around it, and this is how it's going to be for the upcoming weeks because they predict it's going to be quite busy (I work retail) (dumb choice, I know)
In two weeks, I've got something planned on the day I'm supposed to come into work. I made these plans a couple months ago and kind of put them aside until today. It starts at 6pm, but that is also exactly when my shift ends. With my naive little brain I just texted my colleague who goes over our work schedules if I could leave just two hours earlier, and I just got told no. How am I supposed to go over this? Now I feel like I should've just called in sick the day of.
I realize I should've let them know about this sooner but I also know I'm doing them quite a bit of favours by working more than I'm supposed to, even though it's taking a toll on my mental health.
So if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
(Edit: bad grammar)