I used to run worldwide research applications, and although I don’t normally get journey insurance coverage for myself, we required all the scholars to get it. 99% of the time they didn’t want it, however we dealt with tons of of scholars each semester and that meant we did in actual fact want it 100% of the time on the departmental stage. Lots of these college students chafed on the necessities (the price was lined by this system, they simply needed to fill out some varieties), they usually may need been appropriate that it was pointless on a person stage, but it surely was extraordinarily vital and needed for us to be lined in mixture.
Equally, you may really feel that your member of the family is clearly reliable and recognized, and I’m certain that’s true in your particular person case. However it’s additionally completely affordable and actually fairly liable for your boss/firm to resolve that as a matter of coverage, unaffiliated third events can’t be within the hand-off chain for firm gear, as a result of even when your member of the family might be nice, there’s that 1% probability that one thing goes improper.
It’s not nearly trustworthiness; for instance, what’s the firm’s legal responsibility if the member of the family will get mugged whereas transporting the gear? There are all types of wildly unlikely issues that we commonly gamble on in our private lives however that are deeply unwise to gamble on while you’re rolling the cube for a complete workplace. Danger tolerance is simply completely different while you scale up.
I additionally discover that you simply describe the primary incident as asking your supervisor if she’d be okay with it, and the second incident as letting your supervisor know that it will be occurring. I do know that’s not the meat of your remark and may simply be a flip of phrase, but it surely may additionally clarify the completely different preliminary response and may need raised (legitimate?) considerations that you simply don’t perceive what a giant deal that is, in addition to considerations that this could be SOP for you or that this could be occurring extra commonly sooner or later, which may clarify her in any other case odd insistence that you simply take the laptop computer house each evening.
On that time, I do agree that that looks as if some weird reasoning. The one approach it doubtlessly is sensible to me is that if she was seeing it as a binary of both “Janeway takes the laptop computer house each evening and typically WFH unexpectedly” or “Janeway leaves the laptop computer at work each evening and has a non-company particular person choose it up typically.” Clearly that was not the precise alternative being provided, however talking from private expertise, I feel there’s a good probability she merely didn’t perceive how ADHD essentially impacts recall and habit-forming. She wasn’t listening to you while you mentioned it wasn’t an choice, as a result of it’s actually tough for some folks to wrap their minds round, even when they need to actually know higher. That mentioned, the suitable lodging WAS the safe locker, not a license to disregard safety protocols, regardless of how ridiculous you personally discover them. (I’ve separate ideas concerning the efficacy of Dx disclosure however that is already approach too lengthy a remark!)
Lastly, others have talked about avoiding WFH while you’re sick, and I theoretically agree however I’m additionally able the place typically it truly is the best choice; I get it. But when your work is that important, both a colleague (you’ll be able to inform I’m in increased ed/nonprofits, hah) or a courier service needs to be the one to make the gear switch. Family and friends needs to be absolutely the final break-glass-in-case-of-emergency resort, and I can see why it’d’ve been alarming that you simply don’t appear to acknowledge that, although it doesn’t sound like your supervisor dealt with it very properly.
