Basically, the idea that you have to “request” time off from your job, means that you’re giving them the power over YOUR time. We shouldn’t have to “request” time off, we should be able to tell our employer “hey, i won’t be here on such and such days, figure it out, that’s your job, i have a life and it’s more important than work, kthxbaiiii!”
any time you allow your employer to deny your time off, you are willingly offering yourself as some form of serf or indentured servant who believes that the company has power over them and their time, and doesn’t value their own time or themselves over the company.
don’t willingly let yourself be a wage slave. TAKE your time off, don’t request it.