{"id":21644,"date":"2025-12-02T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21644"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:38:00","slug":"i-refused-to-give-up-my-holiday-leave-to-a-coworker-with-kids-just-because-im-child-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21644","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Give Up My Holiday Leave to a Coworker With Kids\u2014Just Because I\u2019m Child-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I booked 2 weeks off for Christmas \u2014 officially approved since May. Last week, a coworker found a \u201cdream holiday deal,\u201d but her dates overlapped with mine. She turned to me and said, \u201cWhy take time off? You don\u2019t have kids! Christmas is for families!\u201d I declined her request as politely as I could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning, HR asked to see me. As I stepped inside, the lights went off. Then I froze, when suddenly, they lit one of those \u201choliday spirit\u201d candles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of them clasped my hand warmly and said, \u201cYou understand how important Christmas is for parents, don\u2019t you?\u201d The other slid an envelope toward me. \u201cA little token for your holiday spirit,\u201d they said. Inside was a $100 gift card \u2014 a \u201cgesture of appreciation\u201d for giving up my Christmas leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I booked 2 weeks off for Christmas \u2014 officially approved since May. Last week, a coworker found a \u201cdream holiday deal,\u201d but her dates overlapped with mine&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":296,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21646,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644\/revisions\/21646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}