'Won't let me work from home? Okay, I'll [stink] up the office': Guy requests to go remote due to smelly side effects of medication, boss refuses, cue malicious compliance

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 17, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Not every employee looking to work remotely is grasping at straws with their reasoning; sometimes, the reasons are valid. Even worse, if those valid reasons are ignored, sometimes everyone at the office is going to have to suffer the consequences. In this case, we have an employee with a bit of a gas issue due to some side effects of a new medication. This issue was not controllable, and therefore not the fault of the employee. But of course, out of embarrassment, the employee did not want to spell out his whole situation to his boss and so his boss required him to be in the office. It didn't even take a full work day for that horrible boss to regret their decision.

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    "I just decided to let it happen in this room of about 10 of our newest hires."
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  • This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/AdventurousWave4721, and it seems like OP tried to avoid the inevitable but to no avail. At the end of the day, considering that their job didn't actually require any legitimate in-person duties, the only person who is seemingly at fault here is OP's boss. Keep scrolling below for the full story and funniest reactions. For more, check out this post about an employee who stood his ground despite his boss's pressure.

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    Won't let me work from home? Okay, I'll fup the office. S OC This could also probably go in AITA lol I'm usually able to work from home but I go into the office 1 day a week.
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    One of the side effects of a medication I'm on is uncontrollable gas. This is one of the less serious, but more annoying and hilarious side effects. Lately it's gotten pretty bad.
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    Since I usually work from home, I asked if I could WFH on my office day (figured I'd spare others and only subject myself and my dog - who can hold his own gas wise anyway) I just said it was because I was having side effects but kept it vague. I could hear my boss sigh.
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    She said "You need to come in today. We have some new people starting and I told them you would do a meet and greet. And it would look bad if I wasn't there.
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    I didn't think that's a good enough reason, but she kept insisting so I took a pill to try and stop the gas and went into work.
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    Gas pill wears off at 10AM. I managed to meet the people and it's fine but then I'm informed that I'm expected to stay in their class and shadow the training. I'm guessing that's the real reason my boss wanted me in.
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    At this point try to get a private moment to tell my boss (a classy lady who wears pearls) that I be f. But alas, she was whisked away to another meeting. So...
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    The first few times I had to f1 I tried to excuse myself, but it became so distracting me going in and out of the room that eventually I just decided to let it happen in this room of about 10 of our newest hires.
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    Someone must've told my boss on lunch break because I got a PM that said "okay you can go home" Don't know what other fallout to expect from that, but I'm at home with my dog right now just gassing my place up.
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    boo_jum 19 hr. ago As someone currently dealing with some obnoxious side effects, this made me laugh. It also made me think of when I was in hs and I asked to skip school because I was sick; my mum didn't believe me, and so about halfway to school, while at a red light, I suddenly opened the car door and puked on the street. Mum turned around. (And my da later thanked me for not puking IN the car.)
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    Kirkuchiyo 19 hr. ago. edited 18 hr. ago LOL. A buddy of mine with crohns told me he gas so bad once it set off a smoke alarm. Glad I wasn't there!!
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    GrumpyCatStevens. 17 hr. ago "If you're just gonna around all day, you might as well go home!"
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    Impossible_IT. 17 hr. ago Hey OP! You're missing one big detail with your story...SBDs or loud and obnoxious ones?
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    AdventurousWave4721 OP 16 hr. ago Tolerable trumpets
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    life71 16 hr. ago I can't stop thinking of you and the dog eyeing each other across the living room in the morning, each one thinking "who's going to make the first move today?"
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    DO Chai Hai 14 hr. ago Growing up, my dad was a talker. He'd just open my door and talk about whatever. Didn't care if I was watching tv or playing video games or what. Even if I locked my door he'd unlock it. Well, one time I had food poisoning and stayed home from school. I was Jup a storm because of my bug. Well, he opened my door to talk, got a whiff of my gases, told me to open the window, then left me alone for the rest of the night. Success! I gassed my way to quiet, Imao.
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    GodzillaAteMyTaco. 14 hr. ago When my IBS acts up at work I'm going to tell my boss I need to go home because "I be fartin". This is the only way I am saying it from now on.
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    Techn0ght 17 hr. ago Should have crop dusted her office. People need to be held personally accountable.
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