Title pretty much says it all. I wanted to work from home for the next couple of days to take care of my mom in the hospital (she’s okay right now just needs someone to be with her before and after surgery) but my manager says I should take my sick days off, basically using up all of my balance to do this. On top of that, my manager says “wfh days still have the same expectations as in office days, so if you’re taking care of her, that might interfere” like obviously I know that wfh days have the same productivity expectations as in office days, I think she’s just talking down to me at this point. But I said ok, I’ll take off sick days because I’m going along with it.
I feel like this is an unreasonable demand though. Should I have just lied and made something up and demanded to work from home or is there nothing I can do? I feel like she’s guilting me into taking off sick days instead of just working from home. She said if you’re going to be at the hospital then you shouldn’t work from home. I feel like I should’ve insisted that I could work, but I know for a fact that they are trying to clamp down on people working from home, because my managers managers all believe in the same stupid policies that people working from home are less productive. And so they’re trying to be hard assess about it, hence guilting me into taking days off. What should I do in this situation? My mom is in the hospital but I am able to work and I’m not going to use up my years supply of sick days in January.