Surprise email from Supervisor

[Anonymous]

What I find amazing I got my first laptop at 35, first cell phone at 40, first WiFi at home at 45 and my first work from home day at 58.

Yet I had three kids and a wife and a long commute. Secret I set alarm clock every morning and go to work. I worked at a 100,000 person company that was over 100 years old and guess all 100,000 people did it the prior 100 years no problem,

Take a day off you want off. Don’t do switching WFH days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find amazing I got my first laptop at 35, first cell phone at 40, first WiFi at home at 45 and my first work from home day at 58.

Yet I had three kids and a wife and a long commute. Secret I set alarm clock every morning and go to work. I worked at a 100,000 person company that was over 100 years old and guess all 100,000 people did it the prior 100 years no problem,

Take a day off you want off. Don’t do switching WFH days

Sorry but if my employee wants to WFH instead of taking leave I welcome it. I do make sure that they have work to do, and that it gets done. If they don’t have work to do that’s a me problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem is that OP’s supervisor didn’t say anything to OP before raising the issue up and basically accusing OP of time card fraud without a conversation. That’s pretty crappy.

And the OP did say they were working somewhere else for any reason. So the supervisor has no way of knowing. They see their employee is jot there but timecard says they are working.

easy solution—ask the employee where they were before escalating. Seems over the top to do that to a new employee who is getting used to a new environment, based on the information we have here.

The employee should talk to their supervisor and clarify expectations regarding presence at their desk vs. working elsewhere in the building because of noise. They should also confirm which days they will be in the office per their telework agreement and stick to those days as requested by their supervisor. Hopefully that is all that’s going on here but I doubt it.

I'm pretty sure they already know . . . in a "quiet place", like home

this seems likely, and happened repeatedly. the switched day was not a one off it was for weeks. she just did it even without approval then likely went home on other in person days. so, paper trail to cut her loose. keeping track of op and why she is not where she is supposed to be when she is supposed to be there should not be a full time job. op has gotten off on a really bad foot and with telework in the mix they don't trust here is what the situation seems to be.

+1. This

[Anonymous]

OP you sound high maintenance and exhausting. You haven’t mentioned anything about yourself, your abilities or your skillset that would seem endearing to your current manager. You must have interviewed quite well? And now showing your real true and difficult colors. The old Bait n Switch. Good thing they’ve gotten the paper trail started on you.

[Anonymous]

OP, how did your in office days go this week? Did you discuss the email with your supervisor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find amazing I got my first laptop at 35, first cell phone at 40, first WiFi at home at 45 and my first work from home day at 58.

Yet I had three kids and a wife and a long commute. Secret I set alarm clock every morning and go to work. I worked at a 100,000 person company that was over 100 years old and guess all 100,000 people did it the prior 100 years no problem,

Take a day off you want off. Don’t do switching WFH days

I’m sure your wife had no job or a part time job and wrangled your 3 kids while you were toiling in the coal mine.

[Anonymous]

Any update from OP?