Every single year for the past 9 years we take the same vacation days, I have worked at 3 different employers over this time and none had an issue with it until apparently now. When I started this job 2 years ago in my interview I made it clear that I would be taking these days no matter what I dont care if I have the full time paid or not I'm going. 2 of the 3 jobs I didn't have enough PTO to cover. Well this year I will be missing 2 days of pto time to use due to a mystery illness that took me down. I put my request in over 9 months in advanced and have made it clear before and after I would be going.
Now they wont give me my request back stating that they would give me a month's notice on what the verdict is, since then the time off rules have changed significantly and they are capping our unpaid time off at 5 days even tho we also dont get holiday pay when our workplace is literally closed.
Today another coworker of mine that put her time in also 9 months in advance was told she would only be approved if she had enough PTO to cover it. She asked about taking the other days unpaid and they told her again it would only be approved if she had enough PTO to cover it.
So needless to say it's strongly looking like they are going to deny my request. DH and I spoke about this and since I don't work some amazing job that I love on the condition that they do decline my request I will be looking for other employment and praying I find something before we leave. The only true reasons I have this job are for insurance (which sucks by the way) and extra spending money.
They already denied my request back in December when my father had to have emergency heart surgery stating that my request was infact not an emergency and needless to say I went anyways to be with my mom. The surgery ended up taking double the time it should have and had a few complications so I was more than happy with the decision I made. In hindsight I should have looked for a new job after that incident.
I'm just so beyond annoyed and the stress of it all has been ridiculous. I rarely ever miss work but this mystery illness had me thinking I had a brain tumor and I missed a whopping 2 days worth of time until it got figured out.
I'm just so annoyed that I want to scream and go ahead and quit now even tho we still have 120 days until we leave for vacation.
End rant.