Employee refuses to donate 6 days of her vacation to a colleague and she attacks her: "You don't have children, you don't need them!"

April 13, 2022

Holidays are sacred, but it is not so easy to be able to accumulate holiday days to take: think about freelance workers in the United States of America - the only country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group made up of the 36 richest nations of the world - but which does not oblige employers to grant paid annual leave to this category of worker. If holidays are sacred for everyone, imagine what it's like for those who can hardly take a few days off each year. The subject of this story is 27 years old and has been working for her current company for 5 years. The young woman had accumulated quite a few days of vacation so she would be able to take a long vacation in Europe, but an older colleague - a mother of 3 children - asked her to donate 6 days of vacation to her. The young woman refused and her colleague didn't take it very well.

via Reddit

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An older colleague, a mother of 3, who had worked for 17 years in the same company as the young woman, needed a few extra days off, but she asked the wrong person to make a donation. The employees of this company are entitled to approximately 18 days of vacation per year and unlimited sick days, provided they are justified by valid, official reasons. The young woman was accumulating vacation days in order to finally be able to enjoy a long vacation in Europe in the aftermath of the pandemic that forced everyone to stop traveling. On the other hand, her older colleague was not doing very well in terms of accumulation holiday days:

"This year she used 10 of her vacation days in January when her brother died, and another 4 days when her daughter fell ill. As a result, she now only has 4 days off for the rest of the year," the young woman told on Reddit.

The request from the woman, however, was a little too brazen and, above all, was unfair towards her colleague. The woman asked her to donate 6 days of vacation to her so that she could take her 3 children on vacation, to the place they wanted to go to really badly. But when she received a negative response from the girl, she lashed out at her: "You don't have children so you don't need so many days off ".

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The young woman refused and acknowledged that being a mother is certainly much more tiring than not being one. She conceded that her colleague undoubtedly deserved to unplug from work for a while; but was it fair that she should deprive herself of her vacation days which had been so hard to accumulate? Not having kids doesn't mean you can't be tired or deserve a vacation. The young woman asked for advice on the internet, as she felt guilty after refusing to donate some of her vacation days. Most Reddit users have sided with her and supported her.

Eventually, the young woman updated Reddit account saying that her colleague "was no longer stuck" and that both she and other employees had given her a day off each, so that she could have enough days to take a vacation with her children.

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