remote work

Job seeker accepts 'fully remote' job, gets told they have to be in the office 3 days a week during their induction: 'This team has been hybrid for a while now'

Ally Perry

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Company announces return to office 2 days after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: 'I have been remote for 3 years.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss mandates a virtual Happy Hour with remote employees every Friday at 4 PM: 'It is not even remotely optional.'

Emmy Pratt

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Company won't allow remote employee to relocate 1 mile away within their city: 'You’ve been shown the warning signs'

JR Atkinson

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Employee doesn't show up for work for 3 weeks straight, all they get is a polite call asking them to return: 'Sounds like a pretty chill place to work'

JR Atkinson

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Company forces worker to commute 40 minutes 2/week just to sit in a room alone taking Zoom meetings

JR Atkinson

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Boston-based company requires remote North Carolinian employee to work from a coworking space 2 days a week: 'I do the same work I do at home from a louder room with worse coffee.'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager insists remote employee of 21 years attend 90 minute, 6:30 AM meeting three times weekly: 'I am genetically inclined to be a night owl'

Ally Perry

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Remote job asks employee for a full video of their workspace so a third party vendor can do a 'safety assessment': 'Your employer wants supervised access to your home'

JR Atkinson

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Woman forbids roommate from using shared office space for 2-3 hours/day, claims she's having 'confidential' meetings

JR Atkinson

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Remote worker of 3 years still has to field 2pm lunch requests from neighbors, friend who assume they're always free

JR Atkinson

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Manager catches employee working 2 full-time remote jobs at the same time: 'Apparently he took 2 weeks PTO when starting out, and then went right back to work the other job'

JR Atkinson

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Boss scolds 29-year-old employee for being too direct in emails: 'The emails were literally things like: “Hi, can you send the updated file when you get a chance?”'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager accuses employee of skipping a meeting because she didn't remember that he was there: 'Apparently not contributing made me invisible in that meeting.'

Emmy Pratt

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Company forces hardworking remote employee to return to the office; employee does half as much work in the office as he did when working from home: 'I probably put 10-12 hours of work in per day, because I could squeeze it in anywhere.'

Emmy Pratt

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Remote employee pretends to quit job after partner claims working from home is a hobby, he immediately panics about paying the bills: ‘You said it wasn't that serious’

Bar Mor Hazut

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