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A supervisor’s Reddit rant slammed WFH workers for utilizing ‘energy minimize’ excuses to skip work.
The supervisor questioned how well-paid staff might nonetheless declare to face such issues.(Unsplash/Representational Image)
“Can’t hop on a call because of no electricity is an excuse that I absolutely can’t stand,” the caption of the submit reads.
Manager vents over pretend excuses:
According to the supervisor, two members of a seven-person crew usually mark their Slack standing as “community problem” or “electrical energy outage” after which vanish for hours. “It’s comprehensible to have community points now and again, but when it continues for weeks, shouldn’t you turn suppliers?” the submit learn.
The supervisor questioned how well-paid staff might nonetheless declare to face such issues, declaring that each earn greater than 1.5 lakh a month after tax. “What sort of a kanjoos particular person can not afford a UPS for 1k?”
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The submit additionally criticised those that blamed laptop computer battery failures. “My firm provides everybody MacBook Pros. If somebody says their battery died, they’re both careless or mendacity,” the supervisor wrote.
While admitting that occasional excuses have been comprehensible, the supervisor highlighted that repeated disappearances might appeal to undesirable consideration from administration. “If tomorrow administration takes motion, the identical folks will say they haven’t any work-life stability.”
Check out the submit right here:
Screengrab of the Reddit submit.(Reddit)
Reddit reacts:
The submit rapidly drew robust reactions on-line. Many customers agreed with the supervisor, saying distant work flexibility was being taken as a right by some staff.
Others, nevertheless, stated the supervisor’s tone was too harsh and failed to think about real instances of poor infrastructure or frequent energy cuts in smaller cities.
One of the customers commented, “My company had a 2-day WFH per week policy and it got revoked 6 months ago (5 days WFO now) all because of 3 (2 mainly) who every single time: Power cut – connected on hotspot.”
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A second consumer commented, “This is a real concern; few of my teammates do this very frequently, and the manager won’t approve leaves for the rest of us, stating shrinkage or pending tasks.”
“One time, one of my team members posted a screenshot of no internet connection. When I closely checked the screenshot, it was the same screenshot that was pasted 2 days before by the same team member,” one other consumer commented.
(Disclaimer: This report relies on user-generated content material from social media. HT.com has not independently verified the claims and doesn’t endorse them.)
