…for illness. Lots of coughing in the office. Used to be able to WFH due to illness. What’s the current guidance on this? Will I get pinged if I WFH because I’m coughing a lot, yet still able to work?
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@t9 Wow. That’s amazing. What empathy.
My manager recommended we come in when we’re sick because he specifically said he can’t protect us from HR and has no insight into their thresholds.
@ey I would say it depends on the manager. There are some @n@l pr1cks that love to enforce rules and get a kick about being hard @55es
If HR openly mentioned a threshold they wouldn't be able to move the goalposts at bonus time to save money. It's a master class in corporate greed and how to get everyone to hate working here.
@eq you are the first person to ever mention a hard and fast threshold. HR is purposefully vague in all communication so I call bs.
And it's not managers punishing for wfh it's the ghouls in corporate hr so you're incredibly wrong. There are stories of managers being ok with wfh in py25 and corporate hr over riding ratings with IP.
The managers don't show anything, only the vanilla corporate nonsense hr is peddling.
@ax I am a people manager in Wealth and this is literally what HR has told us. Chris M backed it up in the training we received. It is all about the pattern and if your manager is dinging you for one or two illnesses or person events then you need to reach out to ER. If your overall adherence to the policy is 90% then you are fine. Below 90% and you will lose bonus and not be eligible for shares
I got an IP last year for rto adherence. No bonus shares or raise. Cost me about $100k over the next couple of years. No warning during the year.
So you better belive I'm coming to the office every day, with the flu, covid, whatever. Can't give them another opportunity to ruin me.
Blame this draconian hr and terrible leadership. They created this culture.
@ax Not according to my manager. Any days at home count against us.
Not to mention the BO that exists in the office. They need to give out free deodorant with the snacks
I WISH people would work from home when coughing or clearing their throat constantly, or sneezing. Some people do this chronically, year round, and it’s incredibly irritating.
An SVP I know was in the office coughing his lungs up earlier in the year. He told me that he didn't feel like he could WFH due to pressure from above to "set a good example" on attendance.
Sigh - you can work from home if you are sick, that is not going to ding you. What will ding you is working from home every Monday and Friday for two months. It is all about a pattern not a specific incident. You can work from home if there is a bad snow storm too.
The guidance is to come into the office and be infected by one of the many illnesses going around. After all, time in office is much more important than possibly contracting an illnesses that will likely reduce your life expectancy.