Rather complicated life, not unusually so, but events with family, house, family illnesses, working overseas DH etc. mean that my home life is very busy and different from my single, no dependents manager. Some of it is quite interesting and when asked I’ll talk about spending the weekend moving dcs, hosting randoms, or for eg. a ridiculously early start or doing ‘home duties’ through the night.
Recently I asked to trial a working arrangement which would have saved me a lot of money. I proposed trialling this arrangement on a day when no clients were in and there was back up if the arrangement was troublesome. I was told a flat no.
Today a have a scheduled 1:1 with my manager and I know he’ll want to know how I solved the problem. I manifestly did because I’m continuing with my working hours and duties.
AIBU to not discuss it?
I feel discussing home stuff when he isn’t prepared to accommodate or support me just means I’m oversharing to no end.
Any tips on how to refuse to discuss it?
(The situation was analogous to asking to trial Skyping a client rather than meeting face to face to let me visit a sick relative beforehand- it wouldn’t have meant wfh, and I proposed setting the Skype up beforehand on a day when it if it didn’t work I could get to the client in time)