Why can’t something like this happen to me…?

I’m talking about getting paid to do NOTHING.

Sounds nice, doesn’t it? You bet it does!

And this person not only did it, but shared their story on Reddit.

Take a look!

Took 5 Days Vacation While HR and Team Lead squabbled over company policy.

“I (24M) work for and IT MNC providing services to Oil and Gas corporation.

My team consists of 10 people and all of us are scattered across the country, so all of our work and calls are done on Teams and can 100% be handled remotely.

My organisation has a policy where it’s mandatory to work from the office 3 days a week.

Around 4 weeks ago I fell sick and decided to go to my hometown to get better. I worked from home for 2 weeks and HR got to know about it called me regarding the issue.

If you say so!

I explained her the situation but she was adamant on enforcing company policy, she basically asked me to take leaves if I can’t come to office.

And that is what I did, i took the whole 3rd week off.

My team lead is an amazing guy. He doesn’t care about remote work as long as work is getting done and I am critical to some tasks like QA checks before we handover any deliverable.

So when I applied for whole week of holiday, he called me.

Now without me and QA checks, nothing can be handed over to the client so he got worried.

I explained him about the chat I had with HR.

I’m outta here!

Next day I, Him and HR got together on call and HR was still adamant about the policy. I left the call midway saying that text me if you guys reach some conclusion and proceeded to take the week off.

Eventually on starting of 4th week, which again I was planning to take off, HR called me.

She said that she’s “allowing” me to continue till end of this month (around 10 days) to work from home.”

Here’s how Reddit users responded.

This person had a lot to say.

Another individual chimed in.

This reader made an interesting comment.

Another individual shared a story.

It worked out pretty well for them!

You gotta love that…unless you’re the HR lady.

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