So today I asked my supervisor if she had the vacation schedule ready to get passed around yet "No." "Any idea when?" Mind you I was asking this in a purely curious tone. "No, I have no idea when I'll be passing it around." By this time last year she'd already passed it around or at least had started. After I clocked out for the day I then went ahead and told my supervisor that the fiancee and I have a vacation planned out and I actually already have my vacation time planned out. I told her I already had the reservations made. She told me if someone else picks those dates then I'll just have to beg the person who picked them to let me have the dates. She then asked me what the dates were. "I need July 3-8." Without ANY hesitation she tells me "Nope. I blocked out that week this year." I'm thinking, wait, what? First I've heard of this! She had been teasing earlier in the morning saying she'd blocked all vacation requests this year, so of course I'm thinking she's just joking since other co-workers have asked for July 4th and a couple days before/after for vacation in the past and have gotten them. So I simply give a small smile and say "Wait, really? You blocked it?" "Yep, that entire week." At this point I'm slowly becoming frustrated and have to force my voice to stay calm. "Wait, why?" "Because that's our busiest week of the year. I need a full staff so no one goes on vacation that week." I'm seriously struggling not to look at her like she's grown three heads.

For those of you who don't know, I work at a bank. July 4th week is NOT our busiest week of the year, if anything, Labor Day weekend is because it's the first of the month AND a three day weekend.

I am now all but struggling to keep from bursting into tears and proceed to tell her there's an event in Pittsburgh I've been trying to go to for the past five years and that it looked like this would finally be the year when I get to go. I try to give her the guilt trip about me having to cancel my reservations now etc, etc. "Why did you reserve rooms that far ahead? Especially when you didn't know if you would get those dates or not." "That's because this particular event I'm wanting to go to, I have to reserve rooms ahead of time or I won't get a room at all." "Well you know better than to do that." I was absolutely struggling to hold back my tears at this point. I told her fine, I'll see if I can cancel the rooms and I turned and left.

I swear to god, if I don't see an email within the next week to two weeks tops letting ALL the tellers know what our "black out" dates are, I've had it. I'm going to our branch manager and telling her that I need to talk to her, our district, and my supervisor at the same time and I will NOT say what the problem is until the meeting. I'm sick of it. This is the first time in the 4 1/2yrs that I've been there that I've actually seriously wanted a particular holiday off and I'm suddenly told "No." without any REAL reason! I know there's favortism in every job, but the amounts of it I feel I've seen at this job just makes me sick. If this issue can't be resolved, guess what? She WILL be short staffed that week because I swear I WILL be working elsewhere by/before then! Enough is fucking enough! I was so pissed that as soon as I walked out of the building doors I had a tear roll down my cheek and as soon as I closed my car door I was sitting there silently with tears just streaming down. I have to be seriously pissed the fuck off to start crying. Still wanna beat something...

Don't get me wrong, I like my customers, I like my job, I like my co-workers, but I can't take this BS anymore. I'm in pain on almost a daily basis and it's VERY rare that you actually hear me seriously complaining about it. I'm the first one they ask to stay late because a co-worker called in sick. I'm the first one they call to come in early for the same reason. I'm the first one that gets called on to come in, help, etc for many different reasons. Yet the ONE TIME I actually SERIOUSLY want something "Oh, sorry, no, FU."

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WTF.

If it's not resolved, I'm done. I'm looking for something else. I'm sick of it. I will find another job and let that job know up front that I already have plans to be out of town July 3-8, July 26-28, and November 23-25. That the rooms are already bought and paid for and that they have been for a year (they don't need to know if that's true or not. Just that it's booked and I'm going.). So tired of this, I get right at or right before the 5 year mark of a job and then decide I've had enough of whatever BS is going on and I leave. I'm 31, I can't keep doing this but I'm not about to keep dealing with the BS!

ARGH!