Work from home over Christmas

[Jettisonne]

Work in a company that is four days a week in the office. I asked if I could work from home an additional two days this week so that I could fit in going to see my parents who live a flight away. There are very limited flights to their town.

My manager said no, despite perhaps 70% of other staff working from home this week. Multiple colleagues were overseas or in different parts of the UK.

I explained that if I was going to see my parents I’d have to fly late on the Tuesday and then work from home for three days, and travel back on the Saturday. Manager said sorry no you need to be in the office. The general rule is that you only need to work in the office if your manager is there.

It comes to Tuesday evening and manager announces she won’t be in for the rest of the week as she was going to visit her family in Yorkshire. I could work from home if I wanted. Meaning it was too late for me to be able to sort flights or travel.

Nothing you can do now but the next time she wants a favour I imagine you'll be unavoidably busy...

That would fuck me off massively and I'd be seriously having words with my manager if they did that to me.
I don't suppose you have an email chain about it?

What a bitch. I feel for you.

Wow she’s a dick.

I'd be looking for a new job right away, and then you leave would explain that the unfairness in office is why you're leaving

I'd be asking if she did that deliberately and possibly raise the issue with HR as you had requested to WFH quite reasonably, given your reasons and how you would achieve it. What a witch!
Can you book flights now and move the days back? So you travel now and come back a few days later - and call in sick if it doesn't quite work. She sounds very vindictive and controlling.

I'd raise this with her! This is not okay!

Could it be the fact you were overseas was the issue not wfh? I work from home full time but am not allowed to work overseas (which is a shame as I had dreams of renting a gite in France for a month next summer )

I would voodoo her. joke aside.

indeed find a new job. She obviously didn’t listen to you. Selective listen to what you said, so strictly speaking you could still WFH from the time you asked for. All these small disagreement s would build up in the long term.

this generation we don’t stick to one job for life. It’s two ways. Company needs you as much as you need them.

So it's one rule for one, another one for others??

I'd be looking for another job.

And talking to HR.

You could call in sick for three days.