To be annoyed that my husband has gone to work on his day off

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Husband has a new job role and has a slight backlog to complete due to the job being vacant before he was in post (NHS)

Booked annual leave for today so we could do some last minute Christmas prep, I have a 2 year old and a 3 month old and was looking forward to him being home a day in the week so I could have some help here, he's usually good at helping at home.

Anyway he's fucking decided to go in for 3 hours to catch up and I'm livid because what's the point booking a day off?

He said it would be for a hour or 2, left the house at 9am and he's not back yet.

AIBU?

It's shit but depending on what your husband's role is in the NHS it is expected.

I use to visit a couple of my SILs when their children were young and was always warned that I could end up being childcare until my brothers' got back if they were called into work. They worked in the NHS. Only happened once.

A couple of my friends' are always doing endless paperwork on their days off.

Working for the NHS, they will take as much free time as you're willing to give. Then they will decide that they should pay less staff to do the work, and expect staff to work for free to cover the short fall in people-hours, all unofficially of course. YANBU, and I have to regularly remind my partner that the NHS do not pay enough for him to sacrifice sharing his children's younger years.