Job cancels PTO that employee of 15 years scheduled in order to go on his honeymoon: 'Should I quit?'

What a great way to say "thanks" for all the hard work he has done over the past 15 years. In an ideal world, all of your requested PTO will be approved every time. After all, you earned your PTO by working for the company, so you should be able to use it whenever you see fit. Unfortunately, that's not always the case in every company. Some companies do have "busy seasons" that aren't the best times to take off, but if you work at one of those companies, you usually learn pretty quickly when the "busy season" takes place and can plan accordingly. If it only spans six weeks in the summer and six weeks in the winter, then it's pretty manageable. If the busy season is 10 months out of the year, you can't even really call it a season, can you? Some jobs inflate their importance. They act as if it is impossible for you to miss a week of work and still keep the business afloat, even though everybody knows that is not true. They cancel your PTO requests at the last minute because things are "just so busy," even though they were just as busy the week before, the week before that, and the week before that. They just want to control their employees because they think it will get more work o…

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