In today's episode of malicious compliance, people conform to the letter but not the spirit of a request.

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You can't continue working from home because you go idle and chat too often. Sure, I'll do that

as maliciously compliant as I can. As part of the plan to return to the office post-COVID,

my company has done a lot of re-designating of who can permanently work from home,

who can hybrid, etc. I really wanted to work from home full time. I hate the office with a

burning passion. It's distracting, it's a long commute, and there's no benefit to being there,

so on and so forth. I'd rather just be at home. Well, when we thought May was going to be

go back to the office time, they started giving out the new designations. I got designated as

in office full time. It made no sense to me. I work on a team of eight people in each of us in

different office somewhere in the country. I literally have never been to an in-person meeting

or needed to do in-person work in three years at this company. Every single other person

of my team got designated to work from home, so I brought it up with my boss and asked to work from

home. When I started at this company and lived elsewhere, I got to work from home for four months

before I moved and the past 14 months during COVID have been at home. So 18 out of 36 months at

the company have been at work from home. What I was told is that I go idle too often to be trusted

to work from home. Basically, we have a company-wide instant messaging system that shows you as

available, idle or in a meeting. If you don't touch your keyboard for five minutes, you're shown

as idle. So, they've decided to use this as a measure for who is working and who isn't. The

thing is, like many people in many types of jobs, I don't have things to do for a full eight hours

every single day. The amount of work I have to do on a typical day takes about three to five hours

of actual attention. There simply isn't something to do all the time. My performance numbers actually

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