>I hated working in an open office and tried to leverage my post-dental-surgery fragility into a private office or the right to work from home.
And actually have the - fill the gap - (courage/guts/impudence/insolence/crazyness) to actually write about it.
"post-dental-surgery fragility", come on ...
Gp is right about wage slavery, sometimes people actually need to stand up for themselves.
On a Friday I found out the largest startup conference in Sydney was happening the next week. So I let the boss know I'd be going to that. No response. I went to the conference. When I got back to work they fired me for "not giving 2 weeks leave notice" as was in my contract lol.
The story of how I got fired from the second job was even more sketchy. Involves the largest employer in the crypto industry. HR lied about giving me a warning about "behaviour" (never provided any evidence to the claim) and later admitted to having never contacted me. Small cartel of middle managers in a supposedly "decentralised company" fired me 2 weeks before a 6 month probation without any knowledge or consensus from my regional team or primary team. HR lady was fired 2 months later. They then strung me along for 2 months with a "soon to be proposed" rehire offer. Now they ignore my emails. Classy.
Why clearly?
I like standing up to workplace nonsense as much (or way more) than the next guy/gal, but seems rigid to refuse to code from a different room for a day.
I lived about a 10min walk away, so figured I'd just work at home and announced that's what I'd be doing.
Everyone wanted to work elsewhere or from home. However the boss decided that he'd cram everyone into the boardroom for the day.
I was the only one who stood my ground and told the boss I was going home despite his bullshit about not being a "team player". Wage slavery is a dangerous mindset.