I have so many stories that would probably drop jaws here but I think this one takes the cake as the strangest.
During Covid my company handled the situation pretty great. Only super necessary essential employees who have jobs that need to be done in person had to go in. This was basically warehouse guys moving inventory around and that’s it. Maybe 15 people out of 100 tops.
The rest of us were WFH until maybe middle of 2021 where people slowly started to trickle back in.
I’m a technical trainer, so we generally have had to be in the office more than others to train customers, unless we’re doing documentation or editing and for the most part we COULD do that from anywhere (unless we need to equipment).
Once Covid started leveling out a bit and it looked like more and more officers were going to be going back in, my company announced a brand new policy of TWO work from home days a week with manager approval. This is huge for a Japanese company that was INCREDIBLY resistent to flex schedules prior to Covid.
My supervisor is the only one at the company to hate this. And it’s been a passive hate for awhile. The policy itself says it’s a permanent policy going forward but throughout the entire last year he’s made tons of comments about going back to normal without a Covid policy and tying the WFH policy to mask policies and distancing policies (which it has never been).
My company just rescinded the mask mandate a couple weeks ago and the FIRST thing he did was walk up and schedule a meeting with our director and head of HR to ask if that meant rescinding the WFH policy too. How nuts is that? Literally no other management in the company cares that their team works AT LEAST 2 wfh days a week besides this guy. He has such control issues that he took it upon himself to go push for a policy change that would affect the entire company.
Luckily they laughed him out the door and just pointed to the policy being permanent.
Granted it still sucks for us because he makes us request the 2 days every week, and makes us like prostrate in front of him with a n explanation of EXACTLY what we’ll be working on those two days. It’s embarrassing to say the least that we’re the only department that has to do this.