u/mobpsychos19

Hey guys just venting here. Or maybe wondering if I should talk to HR, not sure really. But a little background: I work for a mid size company in their accounting department. Our department is run really thin, just me and two other women and then our boss and his boss. All 3 of us are fairly young women and our bosses are older men. For the past year or so, I’ve noticed one day a week my boss’s favorite employee works from home. I know for a fact she has no reason for this outside of that she just wants to (she told me this when I asked her about it). Now, I have about a 40 minute commute to the office, and my car is getting up in there in miles and doesn’t run the best. A work from home day would seriously help me out with gas and wear and tear on my car. Not to mention that every task our department has can be done completely remote. So, naturally, I asked my boss if I could also have a work from home day once a week like my coworker does. He quite literally laughed at me and told me no. When I asked him about 3 months later, he once again told me he couldn’t give it to me, and that he personally found remote work to be and I quote “stupid”.

I was wondering for a bit why my coworker gets to work from home and I can’t, but I’ve started to notice it’s a definite favoritism thing. She comes into his office every morning (besides when she’s at home!) and laughs and flirts with him. She tells him every detail of her life, including the fact that she’s having such a hard time getting a boyfriend. My boss is about 25 years older than her and is kind of a creep imo (he’s one of those white guys who self admitted to only liking latina women because they’re “more traditional than american women.” I have a feeling he only lets her have the work from home day and no one else in our department because she’s his favorite and has a crush on her. It’s seriously starting to aggravate me, but I feel like I can’t complain to anyone about it at work. I know I should just be grateful to have a decent job, but when the favoritism is so blatant (and this shows in many other ways besides this) it makes it hard to want to work with the two of them. Would you guys go to HR in this situation? Or am I just wasting my time?