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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Lassie-girl on 2025-06-22 23:57:39+00:00.

My one coworker and I are being forced to work the Saturday of Fourth of July weekend because there’s an industry event happening that my manager wants us to be online for. We don’t work Saturdays. So he technically can’t make me but I can’t afford to be put on the chopping block.

The thing is, when he first told us about it months ago, he said * WE * would be working, meaning all of us. Then I found out one week while he was away that he’s actually going to the event, so not having to work it. It’s not a typical corporate work-y type of thing, so he’s going to have a great time.

It’s also overseas, so he’s going to be making an extended trip out of it and has been mentioning a bit about the planning he’s doing to go sightseeing while he’s there. I’m so pissed off that I have to work over a federal holiday weekend when all my friends and family will be doing stuff that I don’t want to hear about it.

And I know over the next two weeks he’s going to message me about all his little plans, because he literally messages me in the morning about what he and his wife had for dinner the night before. He wants so badly to be friends, and I want so badly out of this job but haven’t been able to land a new one yet.

Anyway, if he starts messaging me about his itinerary, I was wondering if it would be completely out of line for me to say something like, “I’m very happy for you that you’re getting to attend this event, but to be quite honest, I’m incredibly upset that I have to work over a holiday weekend so unless it’s something essential to discuss for the work we’ll be doing, I’m not really interested in discussing it.”