w.smith
Fesshole 🧻I'm contracted to be in the office 3 days a week. It's totally unnecessary so about a year ago I just stopped turning up. Kept doing all my work dialling in to any meetings I needed to be in. My manager never said anything and neither did HR. The moral is, don't ask, just do.
((( Geekosaurus )))@fesshole it's always easier to get forgiveness than permission
Daniel V.@fesshole I literally did this at a previous role and for multiple years the number of times I was in office was “Yeah I was in two days in March”.
If your work ethic is good and it is also blatantly obvious that your work from home is significantly better than your work in office, they’ll just let you do it if your manager is chill.
Rupert V/
PoloniousmonkIt's easier to get forgiveness than permission.
One of my workplace rules is that I will never wear a name tag. I was a server at a low-rent chain breakfast place (Denny's) and was expected to wear one. I'd put it on then unclip it and bend over the trash can so it fell off. After three or four rounds of that, my boss stopped making up new tags for me.
Bill
Brad Macpherson
Third spruce tree on the leftAt work I've had my own office for a decade. Since covid we've been on variations of 2-3 days at home, but there's been a push for BTO. But starting in Feb. I just stopped going. Each day I'd wake up "hrmm. I haven't been in a while mebbe I should go" but by the time it came to put on pants I'd be "naw. fuck it."
Likewise noone said anything. Few weeks ago, I finally felt guilty enough about my office sitting empty I brought it up to my boss. New deal: I give up my office and I officially just have to come in one day a week.
Its pretty sweet.
13readie@fesshole I had the opposite experience, unfortunately. I actually got permission from my supervisor to work from home, but my asshole boss didn't consider that as me getting permission, so I got fired anyway 🙃 Absolutely no warning whatsoever.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
Randall Lee@fesshole My employer was bought by a larger company. The new owners have brought in their inventory tracking system that has us scanning all inputs as they are moved around the factory. We were given no directions on trouble shooting issues other than telling the supervisor. After a month my department has lost interest in this bullshit. We are making no effort to help them make this work. We weren't fucking with their inventory before they gave us the power to fuck with it. Thank you very much
Ghostrunner@fesshole our badge swipes are tracked. Good on you tho
Salty@ghostrunner @fesshole ours are too and corporate decreed BTO early this year, min three days a week.
But in 2024 with my boss’s OK I moved about 375 miles away so that’s not happening. I was already 80% travel and do documentation when home. Nobody has said a word about it. But she’s leaving in a few months so we’ll see what happens.
𝚉𝚎𝚗 𝚉𝚎𝚛𝚘 ☯️ ◯@fesshole I did this for the last few months before I retired. No one mentioned it until 2 days before I finished, when my boss said “Are you ever going to come in again?” He sounded so sad …
MostlyTato@fesshole
If it works, who cares? I recall I was supposed to go to weeklies conference for the newspaper but it was so boring I would fall asleep. Wasn't even needed as they never thought to brief about graphics. I just stopped going and it didn't make a shred of difference.
If it works, who cares? I recall I was supposed to go to weeklies conference for the newspaper but it was so boring I would fall asleep. Wasn't even needed as they never thought to brief about graphics. I just stopped going and it didn't make a shred of difference.
Ames