'Everything will be late': Boss denies a salaried employee's work-from-home request, so they refuses to work after hours or answer any work-related calls after 5:00 PM; derails operations

Karma comes swiftly in a workplace run by clueless bosses. Although many employees are perfectly capable of self-management, getting their projects complete on time and on their own schedule, bosses really love the idea of forcing everyone to comply with their rules—and most recently, that managerial need has manifested in the desire to return to the office. 

But when this boss denied his salaried employee's requests to occasionally work from home, he realized exactly how much his worker was doing after hours. Naturally, when they specifically signed paperwork to deny their WFH schedule, they completely refused to answer work calls, emails, or "emergency" requests after 5:00 PM, because, of course, that would be a breach of contract. 

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  • Bosses are obsessed with in-person work. While I agree that there are some merits to working in an office, not every position needs face-to-face interactions to function. In fact, there are a lot of jobs that are far more efficient when the employees cater to their own schedule, because not everyone functions on a basic nine-to-five schedule. Turns out, this employee taught their boss that exact lesson after they refused to work after hours or from home…

  • Important calculation due? Sorry, no WFH allowed S I am currently in my malicious compliance phase at work right now. I got ripped a new one last week because I needed to work from home in order to get some urgent stuff done for a
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  • conference I needed to attend the following week. I was explicitly told that I could not work from home without approval. And I was told that I signed a policy about it. I responded that my job requires me to work from home all the
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  • time, to which they replied, "You signed the policy." So now, after I leave the office, I turn off my work issued cell phone and never look at it on the weekends. I am a salaried employee, but I am not going to beg my employer to allow me to work from home.
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  • This weekend I got a call on my personal cell from one of the other managers about approving some billing rates that were due. I told her that I wasn't allowed to work from home, and I will get to it on Monday whenever I have the opportunity. Everything will be late, but I signed the policy.
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  • It literally would have cost them nothing to just let me do my job. I already get paid a fixed rate. But if they want to play stupid games, they can win stupid prizes.
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  • EDIT: So a number of comments asking about why I would even bother to WFH after hours. Here is my take, my employer is not paying me to sit in an office for 40 hours a week. They're paying me to do a relatively specialized job. Sometimes I do 30 hours a week.
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  • Sometimes 40. Sometimes more. Whatever it takes to do the job. It has been extremely flexible for me in the past and has allowed me to balance family, work, and a few volunteer activities. This isn't really an anti work thing, more of an anti-this-particular- person on a power trip.
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  • kaosreyns Sadly I feel that employers will only enforce the policy when it suits them, and turn a blind eye when it also suits them.
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  • speculatrix Please mark the number they called you from as spam, ensure it's blocked. After all, it was an unsolicited unwanted commercial message.
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  • TrashedLeBlanc For me, I'd have that policy printed highlighted and available on my desk, on my personal company use cell phone and on any and all computers I might use for work.
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  • Oh you now want me to work from home? Cool, I signed the policy though. Oh you want to amend it now? Ok let's talk about proper compensation too for me working outside of office hours. Brilliant MC love it
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  • -FlyingFox- Good for you! And these employers wonder why their employees are burnt out and seeking employment elsewhere. Maybe, just maybe, if they would just let people do their jobs instead of always changing the rules.
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  • FatBloke4. In France, Germany, Italy, and Belgium, "right to disconnect" laws forbid employers from contacting employees outside of working hours, except in genuine emergencies.
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  • Anastephone I'd make sure to thank them for helping you achieve a healthy work life balance
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