The whole “we look out for our staff” thing has always been a line of bs. I had my wedding date picked before I was hired at Willy. On day one of Indoc I filled out a PTO request for my wedding that was happening 7 months later. I was told it would be no problem and I’d get the days off. A week before my wedding the request was still pending so I talked to the chief pilot and was basically told I should have bid for those days off. I informed him that I did but I was too junior to get those days off. I then told him what days I wouldn’t be at work and he could consider them sick days or unavailable or whatever but I wasn’t going to reschedule my wedding the week before.