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Managers working from home in bad weather
SevenOfNine
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Get your sorry backsides into the office like the plebs have had to do!
Not all of us have the privilege of being able to use the "I'm working from home" excuse to hibernate during the recent bad weather. If I'm expected to drive/walk/bus to work in order to deliver a service then you should be there too. I do not care if you are genuinly able to work from home.........GET IN THE OFFICE LIKE I'VE HAD TO AND SET AN EXAMPLE! :mad:
The offending employers - the Local Authority where the concrete cows are.
Not all of us have the privilege of being able to use the "I'm working from home" excuse to hibernate during the recent bad weather. If I'm expected to drive/walk/bus to work in order to deliver a service then you should be there too. I do not care if you are genuinly able to work from home.........GET IN THE OFFICE LIKE I'VE HAD TO AND SET AN EXAMPLE! :mad:
The offending employers - the Local Authority where the concrete cows are.
Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
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Totally, totally agree. Us underlings managed to get in so you lot should to. Especially with the amount of money you're being paid.
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That's very opinionated and angry for a first topic!
Male.
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As somebody who is working from home in MK. although not a LA employee - it's not a soft option.Please forgive me if my comments seem abrupt or my questions have obvious answers, I have a mental health condition which affects my ability to see things as others might.0
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SevenOfNine wrote: »Get your sorry backsides into the office like the plebs have had to do!
Not all of us have the privilege of being able to use the "I'm working from home" excuse to hibernate during the recent bad weather. If I'm expected to drive/walk/bus to work in order to deliver a service then you should be there too. I do not care if you are genuinly able to work from home.........GET IN THE OFFICE LIKE I'VE HAD TO AND SET AN EXAMPLE! :mad:
The offending employers - the Local Authority where the concrete cows are.
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LemonGrove wrote: »That's very opinionated and angry for a first topic!
The word VENT being in the title of the forum!
Raksha - Why have you chosen to work from home during this weather if it's not the soft option? If you consider staying home harder than schlepping in to the office you could always go in.Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.0 -
SevenOfNine wrote: »The word VENT being in the title of the forum!
Raksha - Why have you chosen to work from home during this weather if it's not the soft option? If you consider staying home harder than schlepping in to the office you could always go in.
Did I say I'd chosen to work from home? I was told to stay at home, by my boss, because there is no where safe to park cars at present as the estate roads haven't been cleared. I wasn't going to argue, but it's not easy trying to do your job through clients called routed through to a mobile, remote working on a tiny aged home computer screen and communicating with work colleagues via Skype. If I need a document, I have to ask my boss to scan it and email it to me........ So it's not always an easy option.Please forgive me if my comments seem abrupt or my questions have obvious answers, I have a mental health condition which affects my ability to see things as others might.0 -
Did I say I'd chosen to work from home? I was told to stay at home, by my boss, because there is no where safe to park cars at present as the estate roads haven't been cleared. I wasn't going to argue, but it's not easy trying to do your job through clients called routed through to a mobile, remote working on a tiny aged home computer screen and communicating with work colleagues via Skype. If I need a document, I have to ask my boss to scan it and email it to me........ So it's not always an easy option.
It's also not at all the situation I referred to in the original post!
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SevenOfNine wrote: »It's also not at all the situation I referred to in the original post!
Nonsense - it's exactly the situation you referred to. "Managers working from home in bad weather" - yup, this ticks all the boxes!
If someone can do the job from home, and it's safer for them to stay there than to travel into work, then why shouldn't they? Seriously?
People moaning because they've got some job where they have to physically be in the office or wherever in order to do it - well, that's just tough. Maybe you should think about a different job or something?0 -
voiceofreason wrote: »Nonsense - it's exactly the situation you referred to. "Managers working from home in bad weather" - yup, this ticks all the boxes!
If someone can do the job from home, and it's safer for them to stay there than to travel into work, then why shouldn't they? Seriously?
People moaning because they've got some job where they have to physically be in the office or wherever in order to do it - well, that's just tough. Maybe you should think about a different job or something?
Wrong as usual voiceofreason - Nope, Raksha didn't claim to be a manager choosing to work from home in bad weather while the staff stuggled in to the office.
Who said I couldn't do my job perfectly well from home, do you, or have you ever spent much time in the workplace? Doesn't sound like it or you'd be aware that the decision on whether or not I'm allowed to do that is made by my MANAGER. We all turned up at work to find his decision was that he was working from home because of inclement weather, any of us who hadn't made it in would have to either make up the lost time or take annual leave.
Sauce for the goose wasn't also sauce for the gander.Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.0 -
SevenOfNine wrote: »Wrong as usual voiceofreason - Nope, Raksha didn't claim to be a manager choosing to work from home in bad weather while the staff stuggled in to the office.
Who said I couldn't do my job perfectly well from home, do you, or have you ever spent much time in the workplace? Doesn't sound like it or you'd be aware that the decision on whether or not I'm allowed to do that is made by my MANAGER. We all turned up at work to find his decision was that he was working from home because of inclement weather, any of us who hadn't made it in would have to either make up the lost time or take annual leave.
Sauce for the goose wasn't also sauce for the gander.
Being fair, though - and going purely on the content of your posts here, so if I'm wrong please do correct me - I'd hazard a guess that your manager's intrinsically worth more as a person than you are, and as such is entitled to such privileges?
Alternatively, perhaps he can be trusted to actually do the job from his home, while you (and others) maybe are infamous for your workshy attitude and propensity for long, lingering fag-and-facebook breaks (after all, you're posting on this message board in what I assume are normal working hours for the majority of us?) if you're not in the office being supervised while you do the job you're paid for?
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