Perhaps, they just don't know what programmer collaboration looks like. I told my team I don't have electricity so can't fully support them. But I didn't say I wouldn't help, I could supervise others to work with it. But what the big old boss says? "Don't get your personal stuffs mixed in."

Like, personal stuffs? This is institutional problem of working remotely. And saying "I can't use my tool" implicitly implies "can someone give a hand?" And because of professional language misconceptions like this that made me tell them to cut management from dev's chat room from beginning.