Manager turns an approved short vacation into layoff ultimatum, leaving 5-year-strong loyal employee stuck and unsure: ‘I've worked every holiday, hardly call out or request days off, picked up shifts, and never had any issues’

It makes perfect sense, really. When a dedicated, years-long employee dares to request one measly week off, the obvious solution is to suggest they not work for you at all anymore. What's more logical than that? You'll teach them a lesson—how dare they momentarily prioritize their own life over the sacred workplace grind. Clearly, the best way to encourage dedication is by dangling their job security over a pit of corporate absurdity.  

If you fire them, it's no big deal. They'll just take their years of experience elsewhere, leaving you with the positively delightful task of combing through the countless highly experienced workers who are absolutely lining up for the chance to work under your seasoned, visionary management style. Once you lose this employee who's been carrying weekends, holidays, and last-minute shifts on their back for years, the floodgates will surely open, and you'll be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of eager applicants desperate to join this bastion of workplace respect and good judgment. 

Or, you know, you could just let them take the time off, be happy for them, and welcome them back recharged and ready to work. But no, why choose sanity when you have the opportunity to flex your authority in the most counterproductive way possible?  

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