'They still scheduled me for that week': New employee mentions bereavement leave in interview, employer schedules them anyways

Negotiating leave during the interview process can be tricky. Do you mention it to ensure you can take that vacation you already planned? Or do you not mention it, helping your chances of getting the job but drastically increasing chances that you won't be taking that vacation?

If you choose to bring your leave requirements to the table of negotiation, the hiring manager then has the option of saying yes or no, or passing over you completely for the crime of having a personal life—it's all within their hands to decide which. So to have the hiring manager agree to the leave and then turn around and ignore it anyways is especially frustrating and damning as it has violated the foundations of the budding relationship.

This employee shared their experience of having their new work disregard the leave they had discussed in their interview, hiring them first and letting them work for a few months before refusing to let them take the leave when the time for their leave came.

They were surprised to find themselves on the schedule for that week and approached their boss regarding the mixup. Their boss gave them the classic response, "You're already on the schedule," before refusing to discuss it further.

Members of this popular online workplace community shared their thoughts and advice with the original poster, telling the original poster what they thought they should do.

Read on for the account of events that was originally shared with the r/jobs subreddit community. Next, see this employer who denied a worker a raise before then paying their replacement 40% more after they quit.