Unreasonable?

So, I have a bit of a dispute with my parents...
Over Easter Break, they want to go and visit my relatives in Alabama. I wouldn't have a problem with this, but I just took a lot of time off at Christmas to go down there. My boss isn't too happy about theweek to week-and-a-half off I'd need (nor am I, as it messes up my paychecks badly).
I would THINK that the simplest solution would be for me to stay home and everyone else go, maybe with a neighbor watching to make sure I wasn't having parties or anything.
My parents don't want to do this. My mom says she really NEEDS to be in Alabama to visit her parents and brothers/sisters... But she then said that if I can't get the time off work, none of us are going.

I think it's a bit unreasonable that they keep wanting me to take time off work, messing up my pay and pissing my boss off, and I think it's a bit silly that I'm 17 and they won't even let me stay home alone for 5 days or so with me promising no parties and such.
What do you guys think? (I know it'll be biased because most here are under 18, but I'm sure a few older members have opinions too.)

If your job THAT important?

man your parents are effin stupid no offense. you're 17. if you can't take care of yourself then wtf. I think you need to tell them keeping a job is more important than overly frequent visits.

Bolt3 wrote: If your job THAT important?

It's not amazingly important, but with it being Spring Break/Easter, a lot of people want the time off. Also, I'm the only person in my station who they consider completely dependable and good at the job.
I've been there over a year, and I've taken basically every holiday off for family stuff. I'm getting tired of messing up my pay, and my boss is getting tired of making other people work the holidays (sometimes he does it himself when other people all leave).

I don't even really want to go down to Alabama. If it weren't for work, going would be cool, but it messes everything up too much. I'd rather just stay here and spend some time with my friends & gf than go back down there, especially since I was just there 2 months ago.

Metallica: granted, they do know and all that stuff... But I would actually kinda think the fact that they know and are fairly cool with it wouldn't hurt me too badly; they know I do it, so it's not like I'm going to start just because they leave, if you take my meaning.

These family trips never cause anything but trouble. 13 hours in a car each way always starts fights.
I don't see what's wrong with me chilling out by myself for a few days. It would be nice to not have people bugging me every 5 minutes to do something.

Edited by Bunkered

Oh yeah, just to add...
I told my parents, "I'll try to get the time off, but if I can't, I can't; That's all there is to it. I can't do anything if Dave (the boss) won't give me time off."
My dad said, "Yes there is. Quit."

It's like.... I'm not quitting a job I've been at for over a year because I can't get one holiday off out of that year. He's still got that whole, "You're just a kid, so anything happening in your life is completely minor and unimportant," fixation going on.

talk to your mother, and ask them why they dont trust you. Say that your 17 and can take care of yourself.

and im only 15 and my parents left me and my sister(19) home alone for 5 days.

Tell them you can't get time off from work and drop it.

You need to be trustworthy, and it sounds like you did something recently that broke their trust with you.

Sorry this post doesn't solve your dilemma or answer your question. What your parents need is trust that you can handle being alone in a responsible manner.

Erik wrote: You need to be trustworthy, and it sounds like you did something recently that broke their trust with you. Sorry this post doesn't solve your dilemma or answer your question. What your parents need is trust that you can handle being alone in a responsible manner.

See, I would accept that if that was the case... But for 16 years I was the super good kid that never did anything wrong, and they still wouldn't let me do jack<crap>.
Lately I haven't been their "perfect son," but they never let me do anything anyways, so that's not really a good reason/excuse.

run away to the yukon...no one can find you there


and bring some explosives and your marker to fight off penguins otters, polar bears...etc.