I’ve made a mistake with my annual leave dates and am kicking myself!
I’ve unknowingly booked AL and a package holiday for the dates of an important project that I would have been expected to lead. Neither me or my line manager who approved it realised at the time. I’ve been told there are solutions and not to worry, but I feel awful. I’m relatively new in the job and my colleague has planned her AL around this project. The dates were available to me but for some reason I thought the deadline was later on in the month (which it usually is). I can’t change the dates for the holiday without it costing £500 extra, and I wouldn’t get my money back for cancelling. I feel like an idiot! What can I do to try and rectify this or at least apologise? I feel like the fact that my line manager granted the leave is my saving grace really. If it had been flagged at the time, I would have just booked the week before off, but I still should have checked.