If you, an employee, need to be off the schedule for any amount of time or will not be available for a certain shift, you should not have to use the word “request”. It’s about the most ridiculous unnecessary vernacular that I can think of. I tell the employees that I supervise/schedule “we don’t have time off requests, we have scheduling notices. If you need to not be on the schedule for any reason at all, please give me heads up at least two weeks out. I don’t care what it’s for, it’s not my business. If I mess up and schedule you, that’s on me.”
I don’t understand the entitlement that so many employers out there have.