I Want My Vacation Time, Sir!
I was in the military and was trying to take my vacation time before I lost the days. They denied my requests 4 different times and I hadn’t had a day off in 3 months and I was working 12-16 hours shifts most days.
I was beyond done.
I was teaching some new guys part of the tasks for one job. Everything was fine, I went somewhere else in the hangar to do something else on the plane.
This Quality Assurance guy that everyone knew was a pain came in. I did my stuff good and he never bothered me so I didn’t pay him any attention.
He started talking to one of the new dudes.
He then asked to talk to me and pulled me aside. He then asked my I hadn’t told the new guy about some super obscure caution about water under a grate in the hanger floor.
Something that had nothing to do with our job so it didn’t matter, he was just being a pain.
I was over the job and him so I told him, ” Listen Sergent QA, Ive been denied my leave 4 separate times and I’ve been working for 3 months straight, so if you have a problem with the way I taught them write me up and stuff it up your butt too.
Tell my boss I said that.”
It was a little extreme but I was pushed to the point. When I went back in I knew I was in deep because the guy walked out of my shop head’s office and I got called right in.
When I went in there, the shop head said, “I heard what happened out there, submit the days you want to take leave right now and I’ll approve it for you.
” Then told me I could leave. That’s all I heard about it I was shocked.
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