You as an employee work quite hard and you deserve some off days to avoid being burnt out.
The following post has now been deleted. However, an anonymous Reddit user had described the poor Christmas gift he had received from his company. There was a sudden change of plans and he was forced to cancel his vacation, which he had previously planned with his family.
The employee had sacrificed his family time and then chose to take a stance for what felt important to him. He chose to hand in his resignation. It was after his resignation that the company learned how valuable he had been to the company.
The deadlines were approaching and they had nothing to show to their clients. The angry manager chose to spam his phone with messages and calls and tried to manipulate him to return, for the sake of his “team”.
The Employee Had A Great Relation With The Company

The employee had a beautiful relationship but everything seemed to change when the rowdy manager decided to deny their pre-approved vacation request.
The employee stated, “I was brainwashed at an early age that loyalty and hard work would add countless “0’s” to your paycheck.” He had been optimistic after getting 3% raises annually while working on his holidays. He had even missed his children’s first steps and other crucial life events, just to make the CEO some more money.
He added, “Fast forward to present day…. I find myself as the cornerstone of our department. Many of our clients’ processes are automated through custom API developed by me. I have maintained a thorough documentation library on how to support the API, the reports, and all of its dependencies.”
How Everything Turned On Its Head
According to the now-deleted post, ABC Company (not the real name) was being audited by the government and was found to be out of compliance. The company had then hired the employee’s company to regain their compliance or face fines.
The employee had saved all of his vacations so that he could take a week off between the New Year and Christmas. He wanted to spend it with his family to make up for all the precious time he had lost previously.
He had been notifying the manager and the project-in-charge about his time off and wanted to finish off his work before Christmas. The employee was even willing to do extra hours to make up for the holiday.
He was completely shocked when the manager called him up and informed him that his vacation was declined and he was asked to work in the holidays.
The manager added that he had even fought with HR but they wouldn’t budge.