Hall-monitoring coworkers ruin WFH for everyone by being petty: ‘These colleagues started going directly to my boss to ask why they "haven't seen me around much" and literally logging my office attendance’

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Sep 29, 2026 2:30 PM EDT

Office Snitch Apocalypse

Nothing is worse than a snitch at the office. Seriously, there are other ways to get what you want. How does negating a privilege for everyone else make you happier? It literally has no positive impact, only negativity toward other people. If you're going to snitch or sacrifice anyone, at least try to get something in return, like a work-from-home policy for everyone or something.

This employee ended up removing everyone's privileges, so I think he will be avenged in no time. If I were the employee telling this story, I would definitely spy on them so I could snitch about the first fishy thing I see, and I would try to make it ten times worse. I know that's childish, but it has to happen. It's the law of the jungle.

If I were to be mature about it, of course I would try to speak to management and explain why I think there are benefits to having the flexibility to work from home regularly. It should be well known by now that people are more productive when schedules and conditions are more flexible.

Didn't those terrible years in which we learned how to work from home teach us anything?  

Petty people create pettiness in return. I'd love to see an update of this story. We often hear things from the petty side, and I know I tend to support it, but snitching specifically hits a nerve. I don't think it's ever right. If you're so jealous of other people working from home, just ask them how they do it.

Promote sneakiness, not snitchiness. That's my motto. Of course, the employee from this story could polish his resume, but I think that's a little exaggerated. Unionizing and trying to regain flexibility is the way to go here; at least try that before finally deciding to leave. Not everything is lost.

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  • Hall-monitoring coworkers just ruined remote work for our entire company

    Last year, my company announced a hybrid policy requiring everyone to come into the office 2 days a week. However, it quickly became clear how pointless it was for most of us-all of our meetings, collaboration, and daily
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  • tasks are done virtually anyway, so most departments started going back to working remotely. One single department that makes up the majority of our staff have to be on- site most of the time due
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  • to the nature of our work. Because they were frustrated about being in person while others weren't, a few colleagues in that department took it upon themselves to start tracking who was at their desk and when. They
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  • began filing complaints to upper management about other departments not coming in enough. My commute is an hour each way. Since 100% of my role can be done remotely, my manager was
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  • understanding and gave me approval to work remotely more frequently to save me the brutal drive. Instead of minding their own business, these colleagues started going directly to my boss to ask
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  • why they "haven't seen me around much" and literally logging my office. attendance. Now, instead of addressing the boundary issues, leadership just dropped the hammer: effective immediately, everyone is
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  • required to be in the office 5 days a week. I'm furious that petty hall- monitoring from a completely unrelated department just tanked the flexibility for the entire company.
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  • How would you handle this? Has anyone successfully navigated a situation where management capitulated to office snitches like this, or is it time to polish the resume?
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  • False Under Two can play at that game. If you know who the "hall monitors' are, then return their petty behaviour by monitoring their toilet, coffee, smoke and lunch breaks and report everything that does not conform to policy.
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  • Piglet Oh_DDDDear Get together with everyone else who can work remotely, and all together demand compensation increases for the requirement of being on site. Demand like 10% across the board. (basically: unionize)
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  • Ok-Willow-9145 Polish up your resume you're in a environment. In the meantime, you could try to work something out with your manager to get you out of going in to the office.
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