Boss gets rid of everyone's remote days but then keeps working from home himself: 'He always makes excuses'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 21, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Whatever happened to practicing what you preach?

This boss genuinely thought he could get rid of everyone's only work-from-home day each week, only to never abide by the rule himself. He always found an excuse to message his team at least once a week saying he had appointments or needed to stay home for his kids, blah blah blah. Look, we are sympathetic to the fact that people have life commitments and families to take care of during the week. That's why remote work can be beneficial for everyone when appropriate. However, to enforce a policy that you yourself cannot follow is about as cringeworthy as a bad leader can get.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. When you're done, take a look at this post about a prospective job candidate who called out a company online for ridiculous behavior. 

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    Lazy boss wants to get rid of remote days for everyone but himself My boss is totally incompetent. He is only above me from seniority.
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    Lacks technical ability and has no idea what he's doing. Can't manage for, not even good soft skills, and takes credit from everyone else's success.
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    The other day he mentioned that it's nice for everyone to be in the office and maybe we should end remote work. Mind you, we only get one day remote.
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    Meanwhile this guy makes his own schedule every week and says "oh I gotta be remote today because my kids have appointments" and he'll say that the day of. Does this multiple
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    times a week. He doesn't even do anything on his remote time. And when he does come in, he gets in late and leaves early.
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    He humble brags about his cars and big house and his plans to buy rental properties, but it's all because of his wife's rich family. He always makes excuses
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    for working remotely because his kids, but he has a stay at home wife, who apparently also doesn't do because he always has to make up his own remote day for it.
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    I'm just waiting for the day he fup hard and everything blows up in his face.
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    C64128 5h ago • If he doesn't know what he's doing, how did he get this job and keep it? Is he taking credit for other people's work? Do the people above him know what a tool he is? Call him out on his Make sure other don't cover for him or do his work for him. Set him up to fail.
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    AlternativeAd7151 • 5h ago Give him an incentive: be less productive in office than you are when WFH.
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    Mammoth_Ad_34... 4h ago Ugh sounds like our owner. I cant be fully remote because they "REALLY NEED" me in office, like if I have a doctors appointment and need to leave 30 minutes early they feel I should make up the full day.
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    Meanwhile, they do nothing they claim they will, aren't reachable when a question comes up, and on the rare occasion they do come in the office (usually to randomlycheck that we are)
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    they go on about their next vacation, whether they should work that week from their beach house, mountain house, or city high rise, or which country they should visit next.
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    They inherited the business from their spouse and we have no retirement plan and insurance, but of course the business funds their retirement and they are on a separate (and much better) insurance, also fully funded by the business.
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    Unfortunately, to get a business loan, you have to have collateral, and since my partner and I can't afford a house around here, we can't open our own business either.
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    Our raises this year didn't even cover the rent hike, much less groceries, insurance, utilities... It really makes me want to throw a monitor at my boss.
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