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'My job is demanding, I can’t be her nurse': Work-from-home professional refuses to be a full-time caretaker for her 67-year-old mother-in-law after hip surgery, forcing her in-laws to step up
A working woman was pressured into sidelining her career to cover her mother-in-law's caretaker responsibilities post-surgery, but just because she works from home, it doesn't mean she has any free time to take care of the 67-year-old.
For some unknown reason, hot-headed managers and micromanaging supervisors seem to think that remote employees don't actually do any work. However, I'd argue that remote workers are the most efficient and highly skilled multitaskers on the market. Often juggling a load of laundry with their regularly scheduled work duties, remote employees have learned to balance their work, life, and home activities, but not without sacrifice.
The family in this next story saw one remote professional's car in the driveway at home during the week and assumed that meant she was free to take on full-time responsibilities. Just because a person is at home, working at their desk in a pair of pajamas, doesn't mean they have time to take on any more tasks. Remote employees are up to their gills in to-do list items, and this professional refused to set aside her at-home career for her mother-in-law's post-surgery care just because her in-laws were pressuring her. It's about time someone else stepped up for their MIL…
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