Today, I've got extremely upset how my supervisor, who does no job other than accepting vacation days, ppto and checking up on us, has declined to accept my ppto of 8 hours for next week.
So basically, in my company every employee is entitled to 40 hours of personal time paid time off per year and every time you use it, you must tell your supervisor how many hours and obtain his/her approval and then put in the tracker file as well as in the company system.
I have always taken my daily job tasks so serious that I would use only 1-2 hour of ppto once in a while and if I overstayed my time, I would stay in the office longer to compensate for the time lost. I did not want to dedicate less time for work and always wanted to focus as if I am workaholic.
I have 22 hours of ppto left for this year still, and in the office most are out of office and those few in the office are just scrolling through their emails emptily and chatting one another in the company system during a holiday season. I kindly requested to use my last vacation day half and half for two days along with 4 hours of ppto so that it is like a whole day off.
My supervisor told me I could not do that in combination so I said fine then I take one full day off and then use 8 hours of ppto on Dec 30. For the remaining 14 hours, I requested to use like 4,4,4,4 and 2 spread across for the next 5 work days. And then I was accused how I was being kind of opportunistic to use ppto as in like vacation.
She has sent me the file for the guidelines twice and told me twice in different emails again and again why it should only be used for personal emergencies, and other extremely important events which you have no option but do during office hours.
After dealing with her 0 involvement in any process improvement, effective tasks coordination, advice-giving and only being so 'worried' as fuck when someone has forgotten to or did not fully and correctly finish a mundane administrative non-real work task related actions, I was already kinda fed up and I do lead some works and coordinate without the associates as if I am the supervisor. I have stopped asking her for advice or giving her any work flow improvement ideas long time ago, as she was not interested at all although she would say the bla bla stuff as in like thank you for your ideas whatsover.
Just today was the last straw, and I was in home office and I exploded in fury (normally I am considered to be one of the really kind ones) and wrote her a lengthy email about how she is making it sound like I am gonna be on the beach having fun with a cocktail in my hand. Being a foreigner in a far away country, not being able to visit family during the holiday time already kind of puts me in an emotional survival mode at this time of the year, and maybe I am having morning psychology sessions or maybe I am doing crucial steps to use those time to take care of my mental health. Also I am having a slight temporary health issue, and maybe I go to a doctor and I need to take time off to recover better in the mornings next week. Who fucking knows and I have no fucking obligation to tell her all in details.
I've seen folks using their ppto for all sorts of reasons to catch a flight early next day, have a breakfast with a friend or go to certain store to buy stuff before it closes etc.
I CC'd the email also to our department manager and in this company, everyone pretends all is perfect as in like those three no see, no hear, no say monkeys. She might try to make me the upset, guideline-violater, but I am super surprised still why she had to bitch like that.