UPDATE: Senior employee demands special treatment from management, sabotages coworker's day-off request: 'I'm gonna threaten to quit over this'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 18, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

When a coworker's time off starts to interfere with your work-life balance, there's not much else you can do but start job hunting. 

Have you ever been at one of those jobs where the bosses play favorites to an exhausting degree? This happens all the time… You start working at a company and realize that your boss and one specific coworker are besties. They get lunch together, they gossip all day long, and most importantly, that coworker gets whatever they want. They request 2 weeks off work at the last minute? Approved. They start leaving earlier and earlier every day, until eventually they're leaving at 3 PM? Sure, who cares? This can leave everyone else with a heavier workload, or it might limit when they can have their time off. How irritating! 

Of course, if you point out the favoritism to your boss, it won't reflect well on you — it'll make you look like a tattletale, or make you seem jealous. Plus, by doing that, you're insulting your boss's BFF, so you have to be very careful how you broach the subject. In many cases, though, the relationship between boss & bestie is too strong for one person to break through, so if it really bothers you, you'll just have to move on. 

This person shared that their coworker gets whatever she wants, and although it's a union job, it doesn't seem like a very good place to work. Let's hope this employee finds a company that values them — and their time — a lot more than they currently are. 

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    So my department only has two closers, but the terrible union I'm in has a rule that if someone has any amount of seniority over someone they can just overrule their time off requests. I have a coworker named Pat who's been in the department for a decade, and she takes sadistic pleasure in ruining all my plans.
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    She's ruined Doctors appointments, dentist appointment, car repair appointment, vet appointments, all this summer.
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    Next Saturday I had a concert where I paid $700 for two tickets in the best possible spot + back stage passes. I requested the time off seven months ago! You know what she did, DEMANDED the manager schedule me that day three days after the schedule came out, because "I have reservations at a nice restaurant that night."
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    I hate her, I hate her so much. I just want to spend my birthday at the concert of my favorite artist, and she can't allow that.
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    I texted the manager that he's giving me the day off, or I'm calling out. I am so done
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    Update: After a few talks with management and the union I'm getting the day off, Pat will also be getting the day off and we simply won't have a closer for a few days. Not the greatest solution as I'm gonna have a horrible mess to return to, but hey got my days off and that's what matters.
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    UnaturalChow I can't blame you, at that point it is becoming a case of discrimination over the fact she is using her senior position to oppose any effort to give yourself a life. Especially considering you've missed appointments which could be costly in health and money, time.
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    That's not on and as a business they should know that too. At that point it is just bu ying.
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    Simply-weird928 One as a manager no employee should be able to demand a day off after the schedule is released. You have a request put in ridiculously early and approved why are you still there if they are going back on that sh. Pam would be gone!
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    Fury161Houston I'd request lots of days off that mean nothing to you. Then collect the evidence for your Union.
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    Forward-Wear7913 Have you gone to the union Rep with your concerns? Once a request is approved, it should be considered a final decision.
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