My mum thinks my laptop is a small TV and I'm just watching films all day

My mother called me this afternoon to ask why I haven't "gone to work" yet. I told her I'm working from home, and she said, "From where? You're just sitting in front of that small television with your earphones on." I tried to explain that the laptop is my office, but she cut me off: "Don't you have any shame? At your age, you should be going to an office like your friend, Tunde."

I ran the calculation. Tunde works in banking, so he leaves home at 5:30am and gets back at 9pm. He pays for fuel, danfo fare, and hypertension medication. I wake up at 8:30, walk to my desk, and my salary lands in dollars. But my mother still thinks I'm unemployed because I don't wear a tie.

I tried to show her my payslip once. She said, "Is that the paper they gave you in that Yahoo office?" I've just accepted it now. My remote job is a scam to her, but the moment my younger sister mentioned she wants to learn coding, my mother said, "Good, at least she'll have a skill." The double standard is the real Lagos special.