My parents won't let me stay home to work when thy are going on vacation for a whole week. I'm 18 I jut started my job and I can't miss that many days. I worked hard. Wht should I do I already said no. But they don't listen?

Jann Nikka answered

Since you have discuss your situation with them many times and they continual to say no. You have no choice, but to go or move out😕

Seems like an 18 should be able to make her own decisions and certainly stay home alone. Unless

1. You have had unwelcome and uninvited guests in their home.

2. You have unclean housekeeping habits.

3. You have demonstrated that you can't be trusted.

4. You're a repeated habitual liar.

5. You will have or have had a man in your room.

6. They believe you will have a party in their home.

7. Drugs will be brought into their home or have been before.

What's really going on?

Barb Cala answered

It's their home and they can decide if they want to chance leaving an 18 year old home alone or not. Could you stay with a friend while they're gone so you could continue to go to work? I'd like to hear their side of this.

Tom Jackson answered

I've read both your responses to the two answers from Barb & Jan.

I'm a father and that is pure bovine excrement.

Given his lack of sensitivity, I'd be tempted to ask him whether he ever wants to see more than pictures of any children you might have.

Might wake him up. If he doesn't respect your wishes, give him a dose of potential equivalent arbitrariness on your part.

dragonfly forty-six answered

I say, stand your ground and find another place to live. It doesn't sound like he's going to be supportive of you having this job, ever, from the comments I've read above. If it's not this issue, then going forward he will probably come up with other ways to make this difficult for you. You can either acquiesce and lose the job, or stand your ground and he either relents or asks you to leave. Be prepared. Is this job worth his wrath, and you having a place to live? Only you can decide that.

Another random thought. If this vacation was planned well in advance why did you not let your employer know during the hiring process? There have been times I have let my potential employer know that upon hiring I would be going on a vacation that had been planned well in advance. Every time they did take that into consideration before I was hired. One time my start date was after vacation, another time I worked for 3 weeks and then I went. At this time I do not think your employer will be as understanding as they would have been had you talked to them at the time of hiring. A lesson for you for the future. You didn't want to go, did you?

My parents won't let me stay home to work when thy are going on vacation for a whole week. I'm 18 I jut started my job and I can't miss that many days. I worked hard. Wht should I do I already said no. But they don't listen?

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