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My wife quit her job for the exact same reason. She had given her employer a year’s notice with a request for three days’ unpaid leave as we wanted to book a safari holiday that would start the three days before the official holidays began.Her employer simply said no and that she was permitted only one day unpaid leave for extraordinary circumstances. Other people have had time off. My wife had worked for this organisation for 20 years though in a different department, so she was the new girl. My wife had even arranged cover for her absence.We went ahead and booked the holiday anyway, and two weeks before the holiday, my wife asked her employer if she had had time to reconsider her request for the unpaid leave. She abruptly repeated, “No, no one else gets it!” My wife said, “That’s crap and you know it! OK fine; you will get my notice of resignation tomorrow”.So that’s what she did, she quit her job for a once-in-a-lifetime Tanzanian safari holiday with me, our two sons and her mother.I didn’t mind as she was unhappy there anyway and I earn enough for the both of us.So it’s up to you but if it’s important enough, I would quit.WE WORK TO LIVE, NOT LIVE TO WORK. Some things are more important in life.

What Is an Unpaid Leave of Absence?An Unpaid “Leave of Absence" (or abbreviation: LOA) request is a letter that states a request for a specific period of time, that you want to leave from your work and don't expect to receive any salary for the time you won't be available or at work.Depending on the company that you are working for, you may simply be able to ask for time off from your job shortly before you need it, or there might be a more formal process in place that you must follow to get your short leave approved. Make use of our unpaid leave letter template to help to come to a perfect personalized version. The objective of writing this letter is to request a period of leave for a temporary or permanent leave. It will mainly depend on the reason you apply for leave, whether or not you want to use a formal intonation.Whether the request letter is formal, or not, we advise putting the reason for the leave in the first paragraph of the letter's body. In the paragraphs following, you can use examples to support your main argument. In the final paragraph, you need to summarize the purpose of your letter again and suggest a suitable course of action to follow. Do not indent the paragraphs. But instead, leave an empty line between each paragraph.Please understand that if you are drafting a wrong leave letter or a false leave letter, this may create bridges of misunderstanding. Therefore, we recommend to first, analyze the reason behind the leave and then draft a letter accordingly. Make sure you have taken enough time to inform those who might be affected by your leave, so they can take the appropriate precautions.Close the letter without indentation, leaving three or four lines for your signature between the closing and your typed name and title.Check out the following request that is suitable to send to your employer:Source: Unpaid Leave Of Absence Letter Template

“You are so terrible as a human being.”That was when my boyfriend had to move to the US and would not be back for 3 years.Due to some reasons, he would depart on Mar 5 - much earlier than expected. Instead of more than 45 days, it turned out to be only 1 week left for us to do all of important things. There were no other people who could really help him with his stuff as his family was not here in our country. So, I really needed a soon break to spend with him then, the sooner the better.I was working for a small company. My labour contract would expire at the end of Feb and after the contract expired, I would have the full right to quit without having to leave a word. I surely would quit, not only because of him, but also because I got too fed up with the office I had to step in everyday.During the last recent months, besides my main job:- As the chief accountant was on pregnant leave and she was the only one responsible for accounting, there was no one to back up her work. Half the amount of her work was passed to me and the manager would do the other half.- As the manager was used to chatting and watching videos on Youtube throughout the day, she became overwhelmed when doing accounting work, she easily got mad and made mistakes usually. At those times, she would send back that problem to me and I would fix the mistake and complete the work. She often passed some of her work to me too, as ‘managers have no time for small tasks’.- As I arrived the earliest and usually left the office later than other people, I had to be responsible for checking for office’s facilities and reporting every time I got in and out.- As I was the youngest one, every lunch time, they expected me to ask them what to eat and buy food for them. Also, I would make tea, wash cups and bring to the room whenever there were meetings – even if I was attendant; and would make calls to the postman, the grocery store, the cable supplier, the IT service, ect. All those little things.- We was not allowed to have days off once we used up our annual leaves. Unpaid leave was always rejected, regardless of reasons.- And other things that made the work environment seem lazy and unmotivated.That was it. Everytime I raised my matters to my manager, she would complain that I was not willing to help the company and that there would be no one to do those things if I did not.I hated listening to that all over and over again. What kept me calm was the thought that the contract would expire soon and I’d escape.According to our national regulations, the company had to inform me about the expiry date of the contract and asked if I would continue working by signing another contract, deadline to do that was 15 days prior to the expiry date, meaning Feb 13.I was sure of a fire of the manager’s rage if I informed my plan when she asked, so I prepared carefully what to say so that I would not bite my back nor add fuel to the flame.It was Feb 17, I still heard nothing from her. I decided to come and inform the manager myself:- I’d stop working here when the contract expired, and I would like to have 3 days of unpaid leave for 3 last working days because of my family ciscumstances.- Besides, I suggested that after his flight departed on Mar 5, I would be happy to get back to help train the replacement untill end of March if the company needed me to.She did not reply on my application of 3-day unpaid leave, but asked me to work for 4 more months which I refused.That night when I got back at home, she sent to me lots of messages. All of her words were different editions of the same content which were about criticizing me on how selfish I was when only caring about my family and my boyfriend, not the company, and questioning me continuously if I ever thought about what she would have to deal with, who would do those work when I left, what difficulties the company would face.Then came the whole set of her rage, including lots of messages, 2 emails and 3 personal meetings in a row to throw bad words on me. There were 2 times she asked me for the reason, but she did not listen for even more than 5 seconds and interrupted me to continue with her complaints and critism.I was shocked. I had known she always asked me to do more, so to heal her anger, I had suggested working until end of March. Clearly, that meant nothing to her. She did not think a second of it. She just focused on what I would not do for her.I thought of what my brother and boyfriend both said, that I’d wasted my kindness by the suggestion and I would soon understand. I saw that. So I put back my words, that the suggestion was totally my mistake, and told her I would manage 1 or 2 days to come and train the newbie.My application of unpaid leave was rejected, of course.She said, because I acted so badly to the company, she would not sign the paper to let me quit, so that I would be illegally quitting the company without her permission. By that, according to the regulations, the company would not pay salary for my whole last working month and would charge me the amount of half-a-month salary, and I could not getting back my Social Insurance Book hence could not get unemployment benefit. I knew those were nonsense as I navigated enough, she was cheating with the ‘regulations’ she created herself to scare me.I replied her email, quoting regulations and company rules to explain that in this situation, I had been doing no wrong. I reminded that I already let her know not only what was not right in my job but also about my boyfriend plan several times before, therefore, at this time, I had no choice but leaving.My last day, she requested on 1:1 meeting again, in which she began with:“All of the things you are telling me that your boyfriend and you have to do are not important, why do you still leave when the company gets difficulties?”I got pissed off. She was getting more and more offensive. In only 7 remaining days before he moved, we would visit his relatives, my family, other people who are important to him - some of them were so old and unhealthy that we were not sure he could meet them again the next time he got back, we would organize and group everything in his condo to send to families and acquaintances and give donations, transfer the assets that he would not bring abroad to me to keep for him, etc. And she was saying all of these were not important than the company.“You tell you're doing no wrong - so now you are blaming me for these troubles you cause to the company by quitting, aren’t you?” – She continued,“You are so terrible as a human being. You’ve got talents but you’ve gone too far from standards of morality. If foreigners know your case, they will think our country is full of people like you. You would not get any happy ending in whatever company you work for from now on with such personalities”.At that point, I was speechless. No matter what happened, this woman would still believe she never did anything wrong and if things went hard, it was definitely the other person’s fault.While anger grew inside of me, she continuously rambled on more things that I should have done to the company in the past but I hadn’t.Before entering the meeting room, I had thought “I will try to bear it as this is the last day already”, but I could not listen to that voice anymore. I said,“Both you and I will not change our thoughts, so this talk’s got no meaning and instead of sitting here, I will use my time to make the most detailed decription of my job possible.”That evening when I got out of work, I drove to my boyfriend’s condo, collected his remaining luggage, passed his goodbye to the owner, sent packages to the trucker and took the bus to get to my boyfriend’s hometown where he was then. All of the time, I kept thinking of what’d happened those days and lessons to be learnt.On the bus, I sent messages to express my greetings to each person I work with in the company. Then I slept.The day after, I arrived at the hometown and met my boyfriend. Those bad things were not in my mind anymore. It was one of the last days till he left, I cleaned up my mind to welcome more meaningful experience.And the manager, who many times decided to throw work to me and threat to keep me working instead of hiring new ones for accounting, administration, sales support, is now bearing workload which is a combination of my job, the accountant job, administration and sales support job and walking to buy lunch for herself everyday.--I tried to make the story short but failed. Sorry for my poor English, I am learning more.