I had that in Germany once or twice, but it was always that I've put the request in on short notice, we were a pretty small team, so three people at once wasn't quite possible. But it was always the young parents planning a vacation during school holidays with their kids, so I understand that this collided and took my vacation outside those holidays.

Entirely depends on the job, and also some states have more protections than others. "Hustle culture" is really engrained over here though and there can be a lot of guilt for many people around asking for time off, both internalized guilt for the worker and actual guilt tripping from managers if you have a toxic work place.

We don't have a culture of going on holiday in America like parts of Europe do, so I think it's not as normalized and there's often a feeling of pressure to only do it when others aren't so that the company is still well staffed.

It's all very toxic, but I think people are also starting to realize how toxic it is in the past several years and there's more and more acknowledgement between workers at least that we should be taking our time off.

They'll cancel the day of in some places within the US. Typically fast food and retail power tripping managers pull this because they don't know how to utilize the crew they have. This is why we tell everyone never to answer work calls on your day off.

Not that I've seen

Same, the closest I've come is I've looked at the holiday rota and gone "wow it's literally just me and the manager in that week, probably best to book the week before or after"