Over Christmas I had annual leave booked for a period of just under 3 weeks to coincide with school / nursery closure. I work part time, 3 days a week in a professional financial role. Without going into detail, a work thing came up and I ended up working from home between 17-30 Dec to smooth over a problem and earned a third of my years annual required target for my Company in doing so. My boss implied the time I had worked would all be levelled after Xmas and said he would pay for the tickets (90!!) to a pantomime I missed taking the children to (not that this covers additional childcare cost and the cost of yet another pantomime in january!). Now I have come back to work and provided the statement from my bank for the cost and asked for two days of my annual leave back. He has refused both, saying my role expects working over and above and that I should have kept the unused pantomime tickets, even though he did not ask me to produce them until two weeks later. Its a good job and there are not that many roles out there for Part Time workers in the financial world, but this is part of a long history of me compromising and giving in. I wanted to teach my DD how to tie her shoe laces and read a clock and my DS to ride his trike. I want my kids time back more than the money but I am scared of rocking the boat and it would be easier if I just kept quiet and continued to be his doormat!