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Sadik Hossain

Manager forbids employee from taking the corporate laptop home. Then she gets her after-hours expectations rejected: ‘work both ways’

A woman on TikTok says her manager told her not to bring her work laptop home, only to later expect her to respond to an urgent message after office hours. The video, posted by user careerwithmelissa, has drawn attention on the platform for what she describes as a case of company rules working against the person who made them.

Melissa said her manager did not want the laptop damaged from personal use, so she was told to leave it at the office every day. She said she agreed to the rule without objection.

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