Imagine working for a company where you work in the office some days and some days you work from home but you don’t get to decide which days are which.

If you wanted to work from home on a day you’re supposed to be in the office, do you think that should count as a work day or a paid time off day?

In this story, the employees were told they had to use paid time off to work from home, but they didn’t think that sounded fair.

Keep reading to find out what they did about it.

WFH means PTO, guess we’re off then

We have a hybrid policy, 2 day on site, 3 days WFH. We can’t pick the day we work from office (this changes every month).

Most of us are on salary so work can go on till late night or end after an hr.

On days that I have a heavy workload I prefer to wfh and go to office on another day

This is where it gets tricky…

One day all members from my team(3 of us) decided to work from home(Heavy workload). Only time this has happened since the office open a year ago.

Manager got mad.

She sent a patronizing email.

UH OH…

In her mail to us she said that she would count this as us not working that day.

Decided to ignore her until we got a mail from upper management parroting my manager’s words

Turns out most people have a heavy workload and whole teams with their managers are working from home. My manager wouldn’t know since she delegates her work.

Anyways she escalated the matter and upper management decided to agree with her.

That’s INSANE!

My team had a meeting and decided if we’re loosing our PTO, we’re using our PTO. We sent a mail to our manager stating the same, including a list of things she needs to do since we’re off.

We spoke to other teams who did the same with the upper management.

We logged off and switched off our work phone.

Manager had to do the work herself.

GEEZ! That sounds so frustrating to deal with.

Why didn’t the manager see that coming?

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this one.

This user thinks the manager must be really stubborn!

This user is loving this job!

This user wants to know what happened next!

This user knows that this schedule must be tiring for someone with a family.

This user knows that working from home has nothing to do with working overtime!

They did the right thing!

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