Remote worker feels the in-office crew has some resentment for not getting remote work, too.
I am a longtime employee of a company that has offered additional work-from-home days to IT workers willing to exchange their spacious and private offices for a desk in a shared room when working on-site. To skip the commute for an additional two days per week, I took advantage of this offer and gave up my office.
What do I say or do, if anything, in response to the inevitable feelings of resentment from employees to whom this trade-off has not been offered? How do I best respond in a firm but polite way to comments like, “I'm not sure what your schedule is, now that you're home” or “I'm not sure how to schedule a meeting with you?”
To avoid confusion, I’m always clear about when I’ll be working remotely and when I’ll be at the office in person.Miss Manners advises being businesslike. Answer the question, not the subtext: “Here is where you can find my schedule and here is how to schedule a meeting with me.”I’ve never heard of “influencers” and don’t know the names of any of them.
A lecture on table manners seems pedantic, and asking him to stop each time it happens is awkward . And just watching him silently has an adverse influence on both my enjoyment of our meal and of his company. Should I just look away?that she receives more questions like yours from wives than from girlfriends .
As even elopements take time to plan, why is this just coming up now? It is so much easier to ask a new partner to make this small modification to their behavior for you — you realize it is probably silly, but it bothers you, and you would be ever so grateful, etc. Miss Manners does not say you cannot try it after the honeymoon is a distant memory, but she doubts it will be as charming — or as likely to succeed.
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