Clouds Joo

The manager said she talked to the boss about it, but honestly, if I don't get approved for it, I'm going to quit.

I'm not missing out on the one family vacation I have a year over a retail job.

And I start college in a few months and I was probably going to quit anyways.

Plus, I invited my friends on this trip in April, which they've always been looking forward to.

Am I crazy for being upset and wanting to quit?

Should I quit if it's not approved?

Yeah, if it's just a retail job and you're planning to quit anyway and you're about to start college after the summer, quit.

Like I think long term and people probably in the comments are going to say that I'm probably in the wrong here and that this person should have quit.

But in the long term, if this isn't a job that's going to be super important for your long term career,

10 years, 20 years down the line, you're gonna regret not going on this trip versus staying at this job for extra two weeks, three weeks, a month, whatever it is, if you're gonna quit anyway when you start college, those extra weeks in between where you get, yes, that extra paycheck are not gonna be worth missing this vacation for.

Also, it's crazy when I hear about these jobs that are very touchy and sensitive about

giving employees their days off.

I barely even request my days off.

I just put it in the calendar and so does everyone else on my team.

And it's almost a given that it will be approved.

It's not even almost a given.

It is a given that it's going to be approved unless there's multiple people in my team who have time off at the same time, but that happens very rarely.

But when we want to have a day off, we

Maybe it's different in retail jobs, but I feel like it's wild for someone to say, no, you can't take this day off because you already took this other day off.

Like, give me my days off.