Disability

[msmemory_archive]

My boss called today - she noticed that I was attempting to get VPN set up so I could do a smattering of little work from home. Seems working from home violates my disability status, so I can't. Okaaaaay. I will now proceed to sit on the phone with the person who's supposed to update the Intranet, who has never written anything in html, and talk her through a task which would take me 15-20 minutes to do in person.

Why does this make sense to our HR people?

EDIT: When (if) they ask me to do the phone consult, I'll point out that HR needs to approve first. Boss, above, is office manager and also part of HR, so it's a short path to a decision.

Comments

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

My guess is that your HR people don't really want you consulting over the phone, either. That puts a bit more sense onto it, once you think about the problem of telling who's disabled and who isn't.

Suppose you could do X% of your job at home. Then it would be tempting, presuming the costs of disability insurance work out right, for your company to keep you as a "disabled employee" for as long as possible, since they're getting a percentage of you for a fraction of the cost.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

In a way, it would be tempting to give them a fraction of me, for a fraction of my current pay scale, in return for the free time. When the company was short on funds during last winter, there was some talk about requiring each employee to take a week's leave, or a day off per week, unpaid, to make the corporate bank account stretch. Alas for my home projects, they decided not to try to juggle that.