Architect reprimanded for making daughter’s birthday invitation on work laptop, so she refused to use personal phone for on-site job photos, forcing boss to buy her company Samsung and pay for entire second trip to the site: 'I doubled all the expenses'

The whole point of work devices is so that we can keep our work and personal lives separate. But sometimes, desperate times call for desperate measures when you urgently need to create and send out your daughter's 6th birthday party invitations…So what's a mother to do if her only current access is to a work laptop? Well, we think most mothers would use it to do the same. Let's just say this mother's boss wasn't too pleased to see her home screen covered in unicorn-glittered bubble font alongside this month's new building evaluation. Because last time he checked, her job was to sketch skyscrapers, not win party planner of the year. But it's no surprise she likely finds her job of being a mother a lot more fulfilling!

So after being strictly confronted for her 'personal use' of the laptop, next time she travelled for work, she ensured not to take any architectural photography on her personal cellphone. Leaving her boss with no reference images when she returned…Turns out, a few days later, she returned to a brand new Samsung phone and a whole new trip booked to take more project photographs…A win is a win!

‘Flights, hotels, and double the expenses,’ all because they wouldn't let her use her company laptop for a ten-minute personal task…Turns out it cost the company a lot more than her 10 minutes of Canva would've…Sometimes life and work will mix, bosses won't always like it, yet it is impossible to avoid.
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$riftwave77 Oversight on his part. It seems that like you, he thought to himself 'well, what else can I really say here'. $30/month is a \nothing\ expense to a business.$

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