An India-based retail banker has triggered an online discussion after sharing a screenshot of an email in which his manager refused to approve his planned leave. The post, shared on Reddit’s ‘r/IndianWorkplace’, drew widespread criticism of the company’s work culture.

Employee says routine requests blocked

Posting under the title “Planned leaves”, the employee explained that despite planning his time off a month earlier, his manager consistently refused to approve even “two days of continuous leave”. He noted that he had already submitted his schedule for December and January.

According to him, this has become a monthly pattern. “He cries like a child every month when I mention two continuous days as ‘leave’ and then I have to break it into separate days,” he wrote. The manager reported

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