Boss refuses to approve employee's day off without a formal request, employee complies by ‘formally requesting’ time off for every weekend in the foreseeable future: ‘I'm so done’

As kids, there were many things about adult life that we never considered or imagined could be real. We all thought that once we finished school, and became official 'adults', we would never have to answer to anyone else. We would be able to do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted, with endless possibilities at our disposal.

Oh, how naive we were.

None of us thought that once we got a job, our life would not be so different from how it was when we were in school. Waking up every day to go to the same place, spend 8 hours there doing whatever it is we were hired to do, listen to our boss and answer their demands, and then go home.

We also never imagined that we would have to ask another person for the freedom to take a vacation and that we would be restricted to a schedule or a limited amount of 'time off'. If we had known all of this, we would have gladly stayed in school for at least a few more years.

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