Nepo-baby coworker tries to override her dad’s approval of a 3 PM leave to work from home arrangement with a colleague but gets shut down by her boss-father: ‘He told me it has nothing to do with her, she has no authority’

A part-time nepo-baby tried to manage a full-time employee because nepotism makes people feel like they came with the building.

This is the type of office dynamic you'll never see in the job description. There's the actual org chart, and then there's the family vibe chart, where confidence is inherited, and boundaries are treated like suggestions. The boss's daughter might not have a title, but she's got access, and access can make someone feel like they're basically middle management by birthright. It's not always malicious. Sometimes it's just the thrilling experience of realizing everyone has to stay polite to you.

The way she questioned the arrangement is the tell. It wasn't a simple curiosity, it was an interrogation disguised as casual checking in. Repeating the same question, pushing for details, then sliding into a rule she invented on the spot. Twice a week, once in a while, like she's running HR from her couch. That's not professionalism, that's territory marking.

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The real issue is that she tried to turn a private agreement into a public debate. Work arrangements are between the employee and the person who actually supervises them. When a coworker starts auditing someone else’s schedule, it creates this weird little courtroom where the accused is expected to defend basic facts to someone with no authority. And it only happens because the coworker thinks the last name does the supervising.
Coworker (boss’s daughter) questioning my work arrangement - worth addressing or ignore?

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The boss’s response matters more than anything she said. He clarified, he backed the arrangement, and he told her she has no say. That’s the clean line. The only move left is choosing whether to feed the behavior. Responding to her like she’s a decision maker teaches her that she is. Ignoring her and staying direct with the boss teaches her something else.
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Offices run on precedent. If the daughter gets to set limits today, she’ll be approving lunch breaks next week.
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$Scenarioing "I called my boss to double-check. He was genuinely confused and said everything is still fine and approved. I explained that his daughter told me it could only be twice a week. He told me it has nothing to do with her, she has no authority, and I can ignore. anything she says... Now I'm stuck on what to do next." \---Lol. Seriously? You got clarification. You ignore her little attempts at power tripping.$

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