John W. <worthj1970@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2:15?am, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>
> wrote:
> >  or just sack me outright and hire a
> > 21-year-old Englishteacherdavid who lives four blocks away and has his own
> > mountain bike.
> >
> I thought the job requirements were much more stringent.

> For what it's worth, my company here in the US has the same mindset as
> yours when it comes to working from home. My current manager isn't so
> bad, but my last manager got angry with me because I took his policy
> too literally. He said that if I needed to stay home because my child
> is sick, then I need to take a sick day and take care of the child. I
> said the boy isn't a baby and when he's sick he just lays around and
> watches TV with a trash can to puke into if the need arises (note this
> is how I have handled many Sundays). Boss said there's no work from
> home policy (despite my having a laptop), so take a sick day. So I did
> no work at all. None. Didn't answer my cell phone when he called,
> didn't look at email, etc. He asked why. I said because you told me to
> not work and to take a sick day, so I took a sick day and didn't work.
> Surprisingly the policy didn't change and he still always got mad when
> someone didn't work on their day off.

Well, you were just being unreasonable.

(Try telling him you didn't answer your phone while on vacation because you
don't have a cell pohne :-))

Mike