Two weeks ago, we had a team meeting about a major project we’re working on. Up until then, everyone thought the timeline was more manageable, but during the meeting management suddenly said the project needs to be pushed out much faster than expected and now we’re basically going to be slammed with deadlines for the rest of the year.
The thing is, my family has had a trip planned for late June for a while already. I didn’t bring it up during the meeting because the entire team was there and I felt like it was more appropriate to speak to my direct supervisor privately first instead of announcing it in front of everyone.
I also hadn’t formally requested PTO yet because at the time there weren’t any urgent deadlines and I didn’t think I needed to ask that early. After the meeting, we started mapping out schedules and workloads per week and it became obvious we’ll be busy nonstop for months.
I also haven’t taken any actual vacation leave in the past 6 months besides taking one day off for my birthday.
I still decided to ask for around 1.5 weeks off because this trip was already planned before all of this came up. The trip would be in late June, so 1 1/2 months away from now. My boss hasn’t replied to my request at all and has basically been ignoring it, which is making me anxious.
Now I’m overthinking whether I did something wrong by asking for vacation time after a discussion about tight deadlines. Im starting to feel guilty and worried they’ll think I’m not committed enough. And that the timing of me asking was inappropriate to what just happened. But the later I asked, the closer to the supposed vacation it would be.
Any advice? TYIA