Quote Originally Posted by Kesnit View Post
It is very much frowned upon to ask for 2 days in a heavy month before the schedule comes out. My boss let me do it last time because (1) I was new and didn't know, and (2) because I was new, I didn't have as much that needed to be scheduled.
But is it ok to ask after the schedule comes out? I guess only if you have nothing scheduled there?

Next year, there is a good chance that the training I took last year will be on the Friday of Beltane. (My two co-workers that are in training are taking the training I did last year.) My job requires a certain number of certain types of training hours every 2 years, those hours are not always easy to come by, and this all-day training completes the hours. (Oh, and it's free.) If I don't take the training, I have to find my own training hours and pay for them.
I mean I guess this is just unfortunate scheduling but if you can't arrange them to change it, you're more or less stuck with it then right? Nothing to do about it. Certainly reasonable to be upset about it of course. Thing is, with enough advance warning you'd think they could change the training day...