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To think my boss has no right to reprimand me over this?

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Expatworkingmum · 01/11/2018 13:58

My boss is one of those people who is either super friendly, or very much not.

Today was the first day in ages she’d been really cordial and I had an enjoyable and productive day.

Just as I was about to leave the office she told me she had some work for me to do next week while she’s away on business.

I reminded her I’m on holiday next week.

She’d obviously forgotten as she got very annoyed. She commented I’d just got back from holiday (true-ish, I did take a week off at the beginning of October) and was clearly very unhappy.

Our workplace has an approval system for holiday time, in which this holiday and the previous one were approved by her. I’d also reminded her of this forthcoming holiday on 2 separate emails THIS week, one of which was a full list of my holiday for the rest of the year, to which she replied saying ‘yes, all good.’

She ended the conversation with ‘well, we’ll have to discuss it tomorrow’.

I have spend £000s on a cruise so I certainly won’t be cancelling (and I highly doubt she’ll expect me to), but I am a bit nervous about exactly what this conversation is going to entail.

Surely she doesn’t have a right to even reprimand me verbally about this?

OP posts:
CaptSkippy · 01/11/2018 15:00

I think you need to take the intiative tomorrow and go to her yourself and tell her that you were not happy with the conversation yesterday and tell her why. I think she needs to know to preserve a good workplace atmosphere.

sunshineNdaisies · 01/11/2018 15:14

I think we may have the same manager! Nice one minute, hurtful the next. never knowing where you stand.

FullMetalRabbit · 01/11/2018 15:36

I think we may have the same manager! Nice one minute, hurtful the next. never knowing where you stand

I used to have one of those - I put up with it for 8 years and eventually left as it was affecting my mental health

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