Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
EMPLOYER CANCELLED ANNUAL LEAVE DAY BEFORE? PLEASE HELP!?
My partner, my friend and I are meant to be going to a festival tomorrow and my partner's employer has told him he can no longer have the holiday.
My partner told them while he was working for an agency before he was taken on by the company full-time as it was already booked back then. They've had about 6 months notice. The holiday did mean that my partner would go over his annual leave but his supervisor told him he would get it sorted. A few weeks later the supervisor confirmed it would be fine.
The supervisor was planning to use his remaining days of leave as well as putting sick days in for him to work around the system and my partner was told his plans were ok.
Yesterday, my parter checked his rota and he hadn't got the days off that he wanted. His boss then told him that he can't get cover for his days off and he's already over his holiday allowance so he couldn't have the holiday. Literally TWO DAYS BEFORE.
My partner has offered everything today including unpaid leave, paying out of his own pocket for the cover guy's wages, making up time through overtime, not taking any holidays next year etc. The boss still says no and there's nothing they can do about it.
Can they actually do this? If my partner can't go then I can't go as I am physically unable to carry the stuff I would need (medical reasons) and if I don't go I doubt that my friend would go alone. All in all, we will have lost £700 worth of tickets, £200 on gear and probably a friendship.
3 Answers
- BBGLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Your partner's boss sounds like a real peach.
It's a bad situation since there is no solution that is going to make everyone happy. Ultimately your partner has to decide what to do.
The best advice I can offer is to remind you that you CAN control how upset you get about this. You can spend a crap-ton of emotional energy railing against the evil boss or you can look at the bright side. And yes, there is one.
This should NOT cost a friendship unless you have rude douchey friends who wouldn't understand this predicament. No decent person is going to expect a friend to LOSE THEIR JOB to accompany them to a festival.
You haven't lost any ADDITIONAL money. You've only lost what you had budgeted to spend.
Your friend hasn't lost anything. He/she can still attend.
You can attend too if you ask someone to go with you in your partner's place. If you don't want to do that you could give your friend the extra tickets and he could take a buddy or two.
And your partner still has a JOB. How much would money would be lost if he got fired over this?
As I said, the boss is a jerk and I feel badly for you guys. HOWEVER, I do think you're pretty good at looking at the glass half empty rather than half full. Melodrama is not your friend.
If your partner works you aren't out any extra money, he has his job, and there will still be a friendship. Disappointing and unfair, but the sky is not falling.
- Valleycat1Lv 77 years ago
The only option at this point is for your friend to beat the bushes and find someone to cover his days off, which is a really long shot. If the job is more important to him than the trip, then you both will just have to deal with it. If not, then he goes (and calls in the absence) and takes the chance of finding himself fired when he returns. I am not sure why this would cost you the friendship, though, since this is not his fault. Yes, it is frustrating, unfair, and money lost, but consider it a lesson learned.
