/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>Work Fridays to Tuesdays over the weekends
>Boss gave me no heads up this would be my schedule until my first day
>Work hard for a year and call in sick the least out of my whole team and come in on my days off sometimes if asked
>Ask for Fanime weekend off and get a super hard no because that's our busy season
>Won't go into the details of my job but with my role, me being gone for three days effects very little.
>Just don't have the energy to explain how important conventions and cosplay are to me and that by not going to Fanime that kind of affects my life and projects in a big way. Also she wouldn't give a shit
>Also just feel cheated that I've given up my weekends and some days off for her and she can't give me just one weekend no matter what time of year it is.
>Went over her head to get the time because I asked 5 months in advance

It feels like a shallow victory but I can only do one or two big cons a year anymore. I live close enough to Fanime that I could go in the evenings but its not the same and I have a lot of out of town friends that go.

Anyone else have tales of struggling for con time off?