Funny enough, I got unlucky by first being lucky and winning a raffle (ironically hosted online) for high performers (for that week I snuck in WFH every day). I prob shouldn’t have WFH the next Monday bc my supervisor/manager got suspicious from trying to hand me the raffle prize in office last week.
I got caught today by my manager. They know I’m right, but their entire basis for their argument on not taking extra WFH is tradition and because the CEO said so. Commuting in is purely a meaningless ritual, and my manager had the VP call me and he was bragging about how he was commuting 30+ years because it’s just how it is. Even the VP implied that he wished things were different because he said he doesn’t have any power to change the WFH policy.
I didn’t get fired, they just said they need me to comply. Corporate culture is so fucking stupid, soulless, and devoid of rational thought.