Boss refuses to approve 1-week vacation request sent in months in advance, claims they can't find coverage

That's what happened here, where a manager was unwilling to let their employee take the break they deserved. Everyone deserves a rest. And you shouldn't have to climb through hoops to get it. If you give enough notice, that should be enough for the people you work with. Finding coverage is the manager's job, one that they should be comfortable doing. It's part of the job description. But too often, managers rely on their employees to keep showing up, and then everything falls apart once they need a couple of days off. How are you, as the employee in this situation, meant to deal with that? At a certain point, you have to demand what you want. But it's also a tough job market out there, and you don't want to end up jobless just because you wanted to take some time off. This is a pretty impossible situation, and you don't want to make the wrong move. That's where this employee ended up, and they needed to seek some outside perspectives to get a handle on it. Keep scrolling to read all the details and see what you think about it.