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Me when I'm "working remote" but actually starting vacation a day early, or just doing my thing as I want because "working" means being available to solve problems, not being in an office.
Sorry, this meme looks like something posted by a non-American who has no idea how things really work.
Of course, this also means being on a support call for 27 hours because of a serious outage. For which my management always offers comp time, and usually some kind of bonus/award.
Been this way since the mid-90's for me. People appreciate those who are willing to put in the effort. From my perspective I don't work any more than anyone else. On any given day I'll be out shopping while on the phone working through a problem, or attending a meeting where I'm requested just in case my expertise is needed.
Since the mid-2000s, most companies expect everybody to be pseudo on-call at all times without any additional compensation thanks to cell phones and the internet making everybody reachable at any time. Your boss calling you after work, on the weekends, or while you're on vacation to talk about work is normal and they expect you to be accessible at all hours of the day. At shittier jobs like retail, you can even expect to be called on your days off and asked to come in if somebody doesn't show up or something, even in the middle of the day, and if you aren't available or "flexible" you can expect it to negatively impact your job.
At my first job for a small business, I didn't take a vacation (not even a single day) in 10 years because the boss didn't give us vacation days and instead said that anybody could take days off at anytime and he'd make the schedule work, but we were always understaffed and he'd make you feel guilty for taking days off. That's closer to the norm these days in the US than the 6 weeks of vacation time that is the norm in Europe. Large companies are required to give you 2 weeks plus a handful of sick days, and that's it.
That's fucked. You should move.