I'm done fawning to jobs. I'm not asking for that time off, I'm telling you that I'll be out of the country for those days so you'd better figure out a sub for that time.
I work as a package handler for a certain shipping company, and surprise surprise, they're understaffed. (Partly bc the job is tough and when they suddenly cut wages after peak season with no warning or heads up to the new hourly, a ton of people walked out mid shift when the payroll hit). I'm also in school half time, trying to get a job I might actually care about some day that won't physically destroy me but will still pay enough for me to live. Honestly, I'm mostly at the job for the tuition reimbursement that I would be getting this semester, except fucked up and misread the dates and now I'm staying another year, determined to make them pay for at least some of my degree.
I signed up for this trip, a Capstone Experience fieldwork I need for my degree, about 6 months before I started at the company. It's a little over a month away, and been paid for for a while now. In my 5+ months at this company, I've never missed a day and have often found myself falling back into doing too much. So when I texted my supervisor's boss (who's apparently the only person who does time off requests? There's no system online for it even this is a huge fucking corporation and even the podunk family-run bakery I worked for last had a digital system???), he got back to me hours later with a photo of HR numbers and the caption, “try calling one of these and applying for leave. That's a huge amount of time”.
Sorry, this is a ~25 hour a week job, I'm stupid reliable, giving you a MONTH notice of a school obligation and you're telling me that 11 days is a huge amount of time‽ Yeah, the alternative is that I leave, except that I'd have to give notice bc the money is good enough that I want to go back and make them pay 2 years of max reimbursement for my tuition. Maybe I should go ask the union about it instead of HR? Make sure that leave wouldn't fuck with requesting getting tuition for this course reimbursed?
If this doesn't belong here, sorry, I'm just so frustrated that even when I give this place the bare minimum of just doing my job damn well enough, they still find ways to disgust and disappoint me. They run off anyone who gives half a shit and does any work at all.