The obsession in making employees physically be at work when they don't need to

Sorry in advance for my rant, but I am so fed up with this.

I’m currently on an assignment for my work, which basically just involves me studying for 2 months and passing a couple tests. My work tracks my progress and scores each day and monitors my every move remotely, through the studying app/ progress tracker. This software works exactly the same from home, it shows how much I got done that day and what my scores are, so there’s is literally no difference in doing this at work or at home.

Here’s the issue though, the place im being put to study at work is an isolated, depressing, white cubicle. I need someone to unlock the break room for me, the bathroom, the cubicle officer and somehow, even alone there, it’s really loud. Employees and customers are constantly making noise and screaming and I just can’t learn in an environment like this. I can’t sit in a white cubicle 8h a day staring at a screen and a white wall, I just can’t absorb information and learn like this, and if I fail this damn test, I get fired.

There have been now also 4 instances where my boss has sent me to study from home, her decision, because the computer at work isn’t working. so I waste 2h commuting, another 3h waiting for them to try to fix the computer and I just end up home, having to work late to make up the lost time. I’m fed up with this bs. I understand that if I was doing a client-facing job at this time, fine, makes sense, but I’m just studying an you’re monitoring my progress anyway… Why are employers so god damn obsessed with making our life miserable for no reason, even when it’s less efficient? Why am commuting 2h a day when that’s time I could be studying?

I then call my boss this morning and let her know I’m sick, stuck in the bathroom since 5 AM. I’m not going to be sick at work in and out of the bathroom all day, so I ask -” Do you want me to just take the day off and use PTO or do you want me to study from home”? Her answer -” You can study from home today, but we are going to need to talk about this and there might be disciplinary action down the line. I can’t continue to have you working from home and constantly having an issue and needing to study from home”.

Lady, YOU sent me home all the other times, I never asked to stay home. wth are you talking about? Obviously I didn’t say that, but why does any of this crap matter????? What is this stupid obsession with feeling the need to make people’s life miserable even if at the cost of productivity and practicality?? I thought companies were all about efficiency, well this is not efficient at all. God I’m so sick of this.