Day 186 - back in the office day

 Today is the 4th day of the 27th week, the 5th day of the 7th month, the 186th day of this babbling exercise, and:

  • Bikini Day
  • Independence Day -  Venezuela from Spain in 1811, Algeria from France in 1962, and Cape Verde from Portugal in 1975
  • Mechanical Pencil Day
  • National Apple Turnover Day
  • National Graham Cracker Day
  • National Hawaii Day
  • National Workaholics Day
  • Thong Day
  • Work Without Your Hands Day [SpongeBob SquarePants]
Quote of the day:
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
~ Ellen Goodman, American journalist and syndicated columnist 

Bossman has tightened the hybrid work schedule.  If you cannot be in the office on the day[s] designated, no matter how valid the reason, then you either have to arrange for someone else to be in the office in your stead, or you have to take PTO - even if you are willing and able to work from home on that day.  

He feels the privilege of working from home has been abused because some [and he included me for staying home on days maintenance was due to come even while acknowledging that he knows I am working just as effectively] work from home and then take PTO too.  He feels the company is not getting full value for its money and wants to minimize that issue going foward.

And because he is having an issue with one or two people, he is changing the rules for everyone.  He has told two or three of us - but today he needed to work from home and is doing so - but announced he would take PTO because he was supposed to be here.  Of course, he gets about eight weeks of PTO annually and leaves some on the table each year, so it makes no never mind to him!    For me, it will make a difference.  It will not make a difference for my direct report because her time card is transparent to him and he doesn't have to approve anything. 

If I wasn't 73 years old, I would polish up the resume and start looking.

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