{"id":24660,"date":"2026-10-08T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=24660"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:26:57","slug":"3-years-without-a-day-off-then-hr-pushed-me-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=24660","title":{"rendered":"3 Years Without a Day Off \u2014 Then HR Pushed Me Too Far.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After working for three years without a single day off, I requested my full 90 days of leave. HR called it \u201ctoo long\u201d and told me to find another job if I was \u201cthis lazy.\u201d Apparently, three years of loyalty meant little once I asked for rest.<\/p>\n<p>I calmly replied that I would work two days a week until the end of the year, using my approved vacation for the rest. Everyone assumed I\u2019d eventually give in. What they didn\u2019t know was that I was already interviewing with competitors and planning my next move.<\/p>\n<p>Now I wonder whether quitting during their busiest season would be petty\u2014or whether guilt is keeping me somewhere that no longer values me. I gave them three years without a break. Sometimes standing up for yourself means deciding your work-life balance deserves respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working for three years without a single day off, I requested my full 90 days of leave. HR called it \u201ctoo long\u201d and told me to find another job if I was \u201cthis lazy.\u201d Apparently, three years of loyalty meant little once I asked for rest. I calmly replied that I would work two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24664,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24660\/revisions\/24664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}