Employers are the cringiest of us all.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeBanned from community
    16·
    6 months ago

    I always just said “im taking this day off”. Never ask if you can take it off. Tell them what you’re doing so they can plan around it.

    • JillyB@beehaw.org
      8·
      6 months ago

      Just to clarify for others, don’t tell your employer your outside-of-work plans. Just tell them you’re taking the day off. It may lend your time off “request” more legitimacy when you say it’s for a wedding or whatever, but that takes away from when you don’t give a reason. It also opens up your plans to judgement. If they press for a reason, just say it’s personal.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeBanned from community
        6·
        6 months ago

        Thank you, that’s exactly what i meant. “Tell them what you’re going to do” just means tell them you’re taking the day off.

        I appreciate the clarification. I see that how i worded it could be mistaken.

        If they press for a reason, just say it’s personal

        100% absolutely.

        • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          6 months ago

          The “wait for it to be accepted or declined” part is where most in this thread diverge. Time off is a notification, not a request, no matter what the HR platform or managers call it. Now, you can be a dick about it and not give any lead time for management to prepare for your absence, or not, and that would have obvious consequences.

          I’ve always treated it as a notification, not a request, even early in my working career when in retail where you have low-skill power-tripping middle managers that think they can just say no. I was never fired for it, but you can be sure those managers hated me for it, nonetheless. Zero minutes of sleep lost.

          • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            That’s also gonna vary between countries - where I live there is a legally mandated mandatory amount of days of vacation per year, but to my understanding the employer decides when you get to use them - you do get a few days of on demand time off, but that’s separate from the bulk of it. So, unless you’re using one of the few on demand days off, it is indeed a request, and the employer can deny them.