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Best news lead ever (via Making Light) (Warning: you may want to wait until after your coffee. )

Scriveners everywhere would be happy.

An under-served demographic if ever there was one.

God dammit. I am so fucking pissed right now. TL;DR ahoy.

We are allowed to work one day per week from home. It's a really big deal both from a workload and a mental health standpoint. But because we are the two on-site team leads, my coworker K and I have to coordinate our days so that one of us is on site each day.

This week, K decides she needs to split her days so that she does a half day from home on Mon and a half on Wed. Tuesday we both have our performance reviews with our boss who is in town specifically for this reason so that day is out. K is out of the office entirely on Friday to work at a client site. She's also out all of next week.

So on Tues, I check in with her, say are you still from home on Wed and if so I'll do Thursday. She says yes (except that she's going to actually do the whole day from home Wednesday). Fine, whatever.

So then last night, after I send a notice around to the whole team that I'm WFH today, she thinks to point out "by the way I'm leaving for the airport at 3." Okay, that's only two hours with neither of us so I ask the manager for our design group, C, if he can just be on call during that period in case any crises arise. He says fine.

Now today it comes up that a) K is acutally leaving at 2. And C is leaving at 3. What the fucking fuck?

So now I get to interrupt what I'm doing on three separate projects that have to wrap up today, get showered and dressed, and head into the office anyway. (In the rain, though at least not uphill both ways.)

I'd have been pissed at K sucking up all the available work from home days this week anyway, but this is some fucking bullshit that I do not have time for.

If I had tons of free time, I'd organize a bunch of scriveners (dressed in 19th century office garb) to protest against typewriter manufacturers.

That sucks, brenda. K needs her boundaries reset otherwise she'll be dictating your schedule all the time.

I'd have been pissed at K sucking up all the available work from home days this week anyway, but this is some fucking bullshit that I do not have time for.

Are you allowed to punch her in the face? Is that mentioned in your policy manual?

Brenda, that sounds like a firm discussion when she gets back. If things don't change, then a discussion with your supervisor.

Our manager is supposed to be calling me in a few anyway. I may just vent a little and get it off my chest.

She's not typically so thoughtless, but this is just so aggravating. I went through a period this spring where I was on client sites for a week at a time on several occasions. But when I was back in the office, I did not take WFH days unless seriously necessary specifically to lighten the burden. Our manager was also based here then so it was three of us juggling days rather than just two.

I have already made plans for medicinal alcohol with a friend after work, since I'm now going to be fucking downtown anyways. Feh.

K better watch it - she may turn into the new Tino!

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