Rather than quit, I called out sick for a day. It went extremely badly- they had 0 cooks, no one covered my shift despite both cooks supposedly covering. They had more two no-shows and so my retarded schizophrenic Wesley Willis-esque dishwasher just cooked hamburger helper. They ran out of food and the servers handled it horribly, leading to complaints that went all the way up the ladder. So today we had a big "y'all done fucked up meeting" wherein my boss, hungover as hell, bizarrely told us that our behavior made him break his sobriety.
The higher-ups repeatedly asked about why this all happened, and it became awkwardly clear that it happened because they function horribly without me, and no one else in my role is reliable at all. They asked me if I could manage this and if I was happy, and I said NO.
So then all my bosses came to kiss my ass. They said "What do you want?" I said a vacation. They said "What days?"
So I'm taking a little more than two weeks off, which is more than I have PTO, but it's really okay financially.
I'm going to literally book a cabin in the woods, not for the whole time but like 5 days of it. It'll be about a 1,200 dollar vacation I think, and I'll make more than that just from my seasonal job this month- It pans out just fine.
Vacations are not nearly that expensive if you're a solo traveler who brings your own food and doesn't pay for nearly any activities.
Edit: Utter temptation has already set in: the nature resort I want to stay at has a restaurant, and the restaurant is hiring cooks. I can't do it- it's no where near where I live, but gosh, just imagine!
