{"id":7877,"date":"2026-05-02T22:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:10:51","slug":"i-was-denied-my-days-off-so-i-beat-hr-at-their-own-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"I Was Denied My Days Off, So I Beat HR at Their Own Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"155\">I worked 3 years straight without a single day off, so I finally asked to take my full 90 days of leave.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"306\">HR shut me down immediately. \u201cThat\u2019s too long. If you\u2019re this lazy, find another job.\u201d They also said I couldn\u2019t disappear during the busiest season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"392\">So I smiled and said, \u201cFine\u2014I\u2019ll just work 2 days a week until the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"433\">Everyone laughed, thinking I\u2019d give in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"617\">What they didn\u2019t know? I had already started applying to other companies. My plan was to use my vacation days for interviews\u2026 then quit right before December\u2014when things get chaotic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"639\">No notice. No guilt.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"681\">But now I\u2019m starting to question myself.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"683\" data-end=\"825\">Am I being petty for wanting to leave like this after everything I gave? Or is it wrong for a company to decide when you\u2019re \u201callowed\u201d to rest?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"874\">I gave them 3 years of loyalty without a break.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"924\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Now I\u2019m wondering if I owe them anything at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked 3 years straight without a single day off, so I finally asked to take my full 90 days of leave. HR shut me down immediately. \u201cThat\u2019s too long. If you\u2019re this lazy, find another job.\u201d They also said I couldn\u2019t disappear during the busiest season. So I smiled and said, \u201cFine\u2014I\u2019ll just work &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-03-000753.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7879,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions\/7879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}