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'I quit my job': Employer refuses to let employee take a single day off while their parents are visiting, employee quits

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Now, she was talking about love (which don't come easy), but I feel that the same principle applies to any relationship: working, romantic, or otherwise. You have to be willing to give a little bit to the people from whom you have been taking in order for a relationship to work — and especially for it to flourish. 

It remains an unfortunate reality then that, in today's working world, far too many people haven't learned the sage advice of Mrs. Collins — and insist upon the taking without any of the giving. These people are the ones who learned about business practice from a book written by their favorite billionaire and think you have to be cold and ruthless to make it to the top. They'll gladly hide their deplorable actions behind the excuse of “It's only business” whilst being utterly unaware of what that really means: That real and traditional business relationships, on any level, are based on mutually earned trust. 

That's why this manager was so surprised when their worker quit after being refused a single day of leave to spend time with their parents over the Christmas period. They had expected their subordinates to eternally tolerate their pseudo-management nonsense and to continue taking without giving anything in return.

Keep reading for screenshots of this thread, as it was originally posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit. For more, check out this hypocritical manager who told their employee that there was no such thing as days off right before telling the employee not to contact them about sick leave on their day off.

(Also, for those warriors readying their keyboards, I'm aware that Phil Collins' 1982 version of “You Can't Hurry Love” is a cover of The Supremes' Motown classic, but my lame joke works better this way. Ok. Thanks.)

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