Nice people get f'd

I put in for a day to go to a Renn Festival with a friend in May.

It was okay'd.

Then the person next to me need s the day for her 95 year old mother to have surgery...

and my back up tells the boss (never mentioned it to me) that she is graduating on that day. When I asked her about days she needed off because she was graduating and her son was graduating she said nothing when I laid out my whole vacation schedule.

I went to my boss. I said that I am not a dick to force the issue, but I did try to work out vacation time with them like a proper team should... and they didn't talk to me at all. I try to engage the team... and it's like I am on another planet... and I do the most work. I won't be the jerk now, but for anything else...I am that jerk.

I try. I really do... but sigh...

people ....