Employee with plenty of accrued PTO asks for one unpaid day off, but her boss denies it and invents fake rules to justify it: ‘I went by HR again, and they confirmed she’s wrong and the info she’s been telling me is not true’ – FAIL Blog

Anyway, sorry I got a little carried away there, but something about control makes certain people, like this supervisor, allergic to yes. The employee is not asking for the moon, just one unpaid day to save their limited PTO for an actual vacation. But to this supervisor, flexibility looks like defiance. The problem is not policy, it is ego disguised as management. She is rewriting company rules in real time, turning a routine request into bureaucratic theater.