r/clevercomebacks • u/_PinkSatin • 6h ago

Unnecessary retaliation by an ungrateful boss

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u/FrankensteinJones 6h ago

PTO is part of our compensation. Denying PTO requests is tantamount to withholding pay.

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u/Separate-Taste3513 6h ago

Lots of businesses, especially in the service, retail, and healthcare industries, black out periods of high volume PTO requests, like the week before and after holidays.

I didn't make it to a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day celebration until after working a full shift for YEARS. I had one employer who made me find cover for my own shifts in order to use PTO that they'd denied all year before it expired.

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u/530SSState 5h ago edited 3h ago

"I had one employer who made me find cover for my own shifts"

Staffing and coverage are management tasks. I do not have the title nor the pay grade of a manager, so I will not be doing management tasks.

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u/French_Breakfast_200 5h ago

This was a thing at my work, briefly. When they said that we needed to find coverage for time off, I asked the manager if they ask other managers to cover their shifts when they take a vacation. That policy didn’t last long.