Let me clarify: the business didn't need the employee to be there, it needed the employee to be pliable.

Imagine posting this like it's something to be proud of.

In the first world, we have employee protections that mean that a) pulling stuff like this in the first place is illegal and that b) bragging about it on social media means that when you get dragged in front of an employment relations tribunal, your lawyer caves their forehead in with their palm and tells you that you owe back pay and penalties

I literally told my employees back in the day that if for any reason a request was denied, just don't show up anyway. I also never asked for a reason for the request. The building won't burn down if you aren't here. Just keep in mind that someone has to pick up the slack and pay it forward.

My direct boss always wondered why employees would come in on off days to cover shifts when I was there, but not him. Don't be an ass, treat employees with respect, and surprise, surprise, people actually want to work.

Normalize punching bad bosses in the nuts.

I dunno who needs to hear this but, they need us more than we need them.

They keep trying to flex and act like they're in charge of everything because they sign the paychecks, the fact of the matter is that the money they give you is a paltry amount compared to what they're making from your labor. If you don't do the work, they won't make any money at all. Sure as shit the business owner isn't going to step up to do your job.

They need you. They want to convince you that you need them. They want to take your power away from you.

Employment is a two-way street. Anyone who will treat you like trash isn't worthy of your sweat.

Any manager who talks about work like that in public isn’t a manager of any high caliber.

Probably just a gas station manager or some shit

I had something similar happen once when I was a teenager, working McDonald's. Keep in mind, is not PTO it's just 'don't schedule me these days'. Handed my request to a manager like a month in advance. Before I went in the family vacation, double checked everything was fine. When I got back from vacation, went to work to get the next schedule only to get stopped and informed I was fired for 'no call no show'.

The one manager that didn't like me for some reason (honestly don't know why) had changed the schedule to explicitly get me fired. The manager I handed my request to was there and even said she remembered my request and putting it in the books but claimed there was nothing they could do.

Technically, I've been fired twice from McDonald's (second time was years later at a different McDonald's and basically the owner thought my hair was too long and I had 'girls hair'). So I cut McDonald's out of my life a long time ago. And it brings me great joy every time I read about McDonald's having financial problems or people not going there as much as they used to. I hope I live long enough to see McDonald's file for bankruptcy. And all the managers that wronged me, I've never forgotten. I wish them nothing but unhappiness and misfortune for all their days.

“For the needs of the business” to feel powerful.

I got fired as a teenager for visiting my late grandfather on his deathbed. I was fired within a few days of his death.

At work right now they're denying all the new vacation requests because we've got to make a bunch of products for customer. But they at least told us when the order was placed, so everybody took a vacation before the rush or planned one afterwards.

I've managed people for 20 years, and I've never denied a PTO request. The business has never collapsed because of that.

"no one wants to work" [for dicks].

hired somewhere else a week later

They forget, they're as disposable as we are.

To be clear, the employer loses on the unemployment claim with this one without a big packet of documentation.

Can somebody explain "y'all can front if y'all want"?

edit: thanks for the replies. The differences in interpretations make me wonder why people don't just say "bluff" or "challenge me" or whatever the boss actually did mean to say. It seems like inventing slang has really accelerated in the last say 20 years. I hear so many more slang terms now. It's like everybody wants to make up their own language. Seems like non-inclusive behavior to me.

Sad. Reads like they needed a warm body but it didn't much matter who

I think "the needs of the business" include firing managers who make stupid decisions.

Fuck that. At my job we don't deny vacations. We make sure that no one is too important to take a vacation. Simple. Plus we let people known, "your PTO is yours, you figure out when to take it"

If the company is hurting, the CEO asks kindly during our all hands to take PTO if you can to help the company not acres during the tough period.

I had an employer do this to me. I requested to use most of my two weeks vacation time in one vacation. They declined it, telling me that it should be used for 3 and 4 day weekend trips on occasion, and not all at once. Then they were shocked that I didn't cancel my vacation.