You will also be without a job.

Then I guess they'll have to find someone to cover when I'm gone. either way, it's a notice not a request.

They need me more than I need them. I put in a little extra time here and there. I roll with management’s last minute emergencies that arise from their lack of planning and communication, and I course correct with knowledge of real world logistics that they never think of, saving their bacon and making them look better than they should. I am flexible and agreeable and get my work done regularly and efficiently.

If they fire me I’ll happily collect unemployment and watch them implode.

Where I live national holidays and Sunday are time off for almost everyone, and Saturdays are usually half-days. Yes, that means almost all stores and businesses are closed. If a business wants people to work then for one reason or another (emergency services, public transit operators, entertainment, food service, hotel staff etc) it is paid as overtime, which generally means about 1.5x the rate. If I could work for 1.5x my rate I'd probably be incentivized to not take the day off, which is exactly how this should work.

Denying people PTO is anti-labor and you frankly should be ashamed to be peddling such bullshit here.

I too write in the notes "this is a notification, not a request". It obviously depends on the type of job you have but I've never gotten flak for it.

everyone can’t be off before forth of July or Christmas

Why not? I'd argue most work isn't so important it absolutely must be done on Christmas.

Attention readers: before you make the mistake of digging through this thread, recognize that this poster is literally some shitty small manager of like 30 employees. Yet they talk like some deranged billionaire. Hysterical.

nope. start this way and tell others. policy does not outrank labor law. pto is pto.