Today, I found out that I won't be able to attend my own wedding, because I'll be in a mandatory training class that doesn't allow people to take vacation for any reason. So now we've wasted $10,000, and I can't even fly home for one day. All because I got promoted unexpectedly. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I found out I lost a promotion intended for me because I was on planned vacation. FML
Today, I found out that I have to reschedule my upcoming honeymoon because my office will be understaffed that week, due to the boss going on vacation right after my wedding. Oh, yeah, and he's in my bridal party. FML
Today, I lost my job for taking an unauthorized vacation. I just got married and requested time off for the wedding and honeymoon months ago; it was approved then. They forgot, and then got angry because I didn't remind them. I did remind them, the day before I left. FML
Today, my "self-schedule" job changed my schedule so I work every Wednesday. My boyfriend lives 3 hours away and this is the only day he has off from his jobs. Also, my previously approved PTO for his birthday, which I spent $1k non-refundable on, was cancelled. So now I'm out the money because I have to work or be fired. FML
Today, I found out that my promotion had been rescinded and given to someone else, all because I was on a pre-approved vacation. According to my boss, they need someone who's "committed to the company" for the position, and gave me a lecture on how if I keep being "lazy" and "unmotivated" I'll never get ahead. FML
Today, I found out my email hasn't been working for 10 days. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but it just so happens that a position opened up for my dream job while this was happening. I would have gotten the job, but instead they gave it to someone I just finished training. FML
Today, I found out less than three weeks before my wedding that my fiancé will lose his new, great paying job, unless we cancel our nonrefundable honeymoon. FML
Today, the rearranged meeting, for which I was instructed by my boss to cancel my holiday for, got cancelled. FML
Today, I found out that my fiancé is going to be deployed on our wedding day. FML
Today, my two co-workers got the promotion we were all working for. The reason they got the promotion and not me? My interview got cancelled because of a policy change, implemented that day. FML
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Top comments
Jeremiah722 19
Miss the promotion, get married
plan_Z 14
I do believe that due to how long you would have given your employer notice you may find that a quick chat to HR and explain your situation could mean the wedding is on still. Also if your job is forcing you to cancel tell them they will have to pay for it, they will let you go then.
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Comments (81)
MuseicBIATCH 7
Quit.
hunter9141 17
It's your wedding, go!
Tyjw924 3
You still could've left. YDI DUMBASS!
Solano2580 24
So, spend money on a wedding, get married, go home, and be unemployed? #64, I think you should reassess the situation and try not to be so brash and stupid about it.
more4me 27
Call in sick ? Beware of jobs that take over your life so completely that you have no life at all outside the job. This isn't just a frivolous requeat, it is a wedding, planned and paid for before the promotion. Good luck, OP!
thatsme293 28
Postpone the promotion.
Tsukiyomi 16
Ouch, sorry OP
Reasonable_one 12
As #7 said, nothing is mandatory. If the company says you can't take time off for your own wedding, it is not a company you want to work for anyway.
INDYSTRUCTABLE 43
**** that, get married!
rydin10 18
OP, if you let your job own you you'll never be happy. If I were you I'd drop that job without a second thought if they were going to stop me from going to my wedding. Not even if they offered to take me to the moon.
writerchic85 26
All these people telling them to quit must live somewhere where jobs are plentiful and promotions rain from the sky.