Boss requires employee to be in-person 9 hours a day, employee complies by staying within set hours: 'Guess this means I’m excused from all these morning meetings now'

Arbitrary rules at work certainly have their way of exposing larger flaws. This can become especially apparent when it comes to rules and expectations regarding in-person or hybrid work. Of course, depending on one's role, there is value in collaboration among teams, and sometimes that kind of communication can only be fruitful on a face-to-face basis.

However, there are obvious situations in which that kind of in-person collaboration does not apply. For instance, if your team, coworkers, and employers do not work out of the same office location and are all remote themselves, there is not exactly much of a point in commuting all the way to the office, only to remain behind a computer screen the whole time. One can hardly call that any more collaborative than working from home.

Here's one employee's story of having to deal with full-time in-person work while also standing up for herself in the process. 

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