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Stop asking. This is your leave, that you have accrued. It belongs to you. You are advising them of your unavailability.
Respond to them advising you have given them X weeks of notice of your leave. Make them explain why they're trying to block you
This. I don't ask for leave, I tell. If you haven't got enough staff that's your problem, not mine.
They say too many other people want it around that time. Can’t lose too many at once, see?
But like…why is a month’s warning not long enough to avoid that problem and let me block out three days?
Copy and paste that second sentence into your reply email