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Subject:RE: Not permitted to be productive at home From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 19 May 2004 08:53:44 -0400
Hi Karen,
You "need to be within a few feet of a washroom." Your boss wants you to
take a sick day. I'm not sure I understand the problem.
Your dedication is admirable, but why not use paid sick leave for its
intended purpose?
Anyway, feel better soon!
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen E. Black
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:43 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Not permitted to be productive at home
>
> For a couple of reasons (not least of which is my need to be
> within a few
> feet of a washroom, but that's probably Too Much
> Information), I e-mailed
> work this morning to say I would be working at home and
> people could send me
> stuff to work on. Since my new boss is at a conference, along
> with most of
> my teammates, I paged him to let him know. His response was
> to take a sick
> day instead: "[We] have been fairly strict with the group
> when it comes to
> working from home... [it must be] pre approved..."
> This WAS announced as policy late last year, but it was to
> prevent people
> from slacking off...
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