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A young woman submitted a request for a 10-day leave from her job for a family vacation, providing ample notice—three weeks in advance. But as her boss denied the request, her father decided to step in, hoping for a better understanding and perhaps a change of heart.
Screenshots of his text exchange with her boss were shared on Instagram’s Threads, and the caption read, “Local Pizza joint denied my 16 yo daughter vacation with 3 weeks notice and tried to force her to quit, I text the boss.”
In the messages, the father questioned why the boss was seemingly pushing his daughter to resign when she had not expressed any intent to leave. The boss responded that since her leave was not approved, it was viewed as “voluntary resignation”. “We’ve enjoyed having her with us, and we will be sorry to see her go,” the boss added.
The father, clearly upset, pointed out that a 10-day family vacation should have been possible with more than three weeks’ notice. He said his daughter was willing to work additional shifts before and after the trip to help cover her time off, and urged the boss to reconsider.
But the boss eventually ended the conversation, telling the father, “You need to stop.”
See the conversation:
A lot of commenters rallied behind the father and the daughter, with several sharing similar experiences. One of them wrote, “Personally when I was managing and had minors working for me, I approved those family vacations so fast. These are junior and seniors getting ready to go off to college, start their lives. They don’t have endless family vacations.. let them enjoy being a kid for a few more years.”
“Trying to force a child to not go on family vacation is insane,” another social media user commented. “I got fired for this as a teenager in 2008. Got a new job right after my trip. You don’t want to work for someone like that anyways,” wrote a third user.
However, some came in support of the boss. “I’m actually going to side with the boss. Pops should have let it go. He was legit low key harassing the boss. The boss was very polite and fair and simply stated the policy. Two weeks is a long time. I don’t remember any part time, minimum wage job allowing that length of time EVER when I was working,” one of them commented.
