“She watches Netflix and calls it coding”: Mother-in-law publicly embarrasses DIL for being remote software developer, she puts her MIL in her place

Hey there ladies and gentlemen of the internet. I really miss summer days hanging out in someone's backyard, a 12 pound chunk of delicious meat sitting atop slow burning wood, slow cooking the meat to tender perfection. Why do we work so hard, so often? So many hours in an office, so little time to actually take care of the things we need to work on and take care of. Do you know how long it's been since I've needed to buy new running shoes? It's been almost 5 years, and my shins are probably screaming at me everything I step my foot onto the pavement in those falling apart poor excuses for cotton and rubber. But, I have about one day a week that it's even humanly possible for me to go on the 30 minute, traffic-filled bus ride to walk around an architecturally confusing mall to spend way too much money on shoes. The point of all this isn't about the running shoes, it's about the covet to work from home.

In the story below, the protagonist is a woman whose job is fully remote. Lucky her, right? Her mother-in-law doesn't think so though, she's stuck in old ways. Read the full story below for all the juicy details.

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AITAH for embarrassing my MIL in front of guests after she implied I don’t do “real work”?

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This mother-in-law is stuck in a “traditional” boomer mindset. I will never understand why that generation so mindlessly worships working harder than you have to. It's funny that generations after them figured out you don't have to work that hard, you only have to work smarter.
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