I submit my time off request on January 31st, 2025. This is late I try to give a 2 weeks notice, but it wasn’t like I was going on a vacation. I just wanted two days off since my last day off was November 4th, 2024.
- February 10th, 2025
- February 14th, 2025
Meanwhile, I submit it and forget it. I get back to work. My co-worker reaches out to see what she can do to assist while I’m out of the office. I tell her well it hasn’t been approved yet but I’ll touch base. I started drafting out of the office instructions, but that goes to the wayside.
Well, the day off has arrived and guess what? It was approved 11:06 pm the night before. Mind you I didn’t even know it was approved because I clocked into work and didn’t see an indication that it was approved. I check my email and there it was.
No prep time for my days off were done because I’m unfortunately boomer minded that a time off request is a request and that it can be denied. I honestly thought it would be denied due to the chaos that is going on, but it was approved.
I still clock in and work. The entire day I’m being hit with task after task and then we had a slack huddle can’t remember what for it doesn’t matter and then while accepting a delivery for another bouquet of flowers. I let it slip.
That day was my birthday. No one knew it was my birthday and I didn’t want them to know it is was my birthday. It was very awkward. This is the first place I’ve ever worked where no one knew my birthday and then when they found out it was a very telling “shit, I better say happy birthday as loudly as I can via slack because, fuck!”
This is what I wanted to avoid because the place where I work they honestly don’t care and I don’t want them to care, but here I am on my birthday the day I requested off because I didn’t want to be involved in the awkwardness of workplace birthdays.
I did up taking February 14th, 2025, Valentine’s Day off. It was so nice! I got to do so many things that I don’t get to do, but that one day ended up haunting me.
I know I am not the only one who fears taking a day off because it isn’t like a call center where everything will be okay. The calls will keep coming and the representatives are all trained to take the call.
Not here. No one knows anything and I’m not saying that to be unkind. Information is spread across the universe, nothing is in one place. Some people know a lot most likely because they came up with the process and then it stays in their OneDrive for us to one day discover.
It’s all a mess.
I’m not sure if this is the new age of workplaces or just this place. I’m leaning towards the latter, but it could be both.
However, I’ll have to follow up because taking that one day off and the extreme case of work dysfunction has caused me to write my first legitimate post on this blog because I need a place to talk about this clown show.
It’s mad wild.
Stay tuned.
xo, Kirbz.
