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‘Go to HR, then’: Boss refuses to give worker 1 week PTO to spend time with newborn baby due to being 'shortstaffed', worker counters by filing for 12 weeks paternity leave

One boss was forced to sheepishly backtrack after initially refusing to give a worker one week off once their wife gave birth to their newborn baby. Management really outdid themselves with this one… It seems ridiculously unfair to think that some bosses will not willingly give their workers requested time off, especially when it is well within the workers' rights to receive it. In this case, u/P4ddyC4ke, the OP, told the story of when his boss told him that because they were short-staffed, OP could not take one week off to be with his wife and newborn baby.

At the time, OP was working as a sales manager, and the boss in question was the store manager, so technically, he had a say in when OP could and could not take time off. What the boss did not know, was that OP had a bunch of PTO saved up, and that because his wife had quit, all the paternity leave the State gave, was actually his to take.

I don't know why some people are so heartless, close-minded, and frankly, entitled to other people's time, but I guess that is the world we live in, and we just have to deal with it. Below you can read about how it all unfolded… Then, you can read about a veteran employee who was told he could be 'fired' for leaving his shift 3 minutes early. He did not take kindly to that, and in the end, his boss was the one who got fired.

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Posted by Eleonora Bader
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