I looked at it but decided not to respond to the request which they needed by 9am today.
I come in early to work so I can have a coffee and relax while I do things on my phone or read things online, not to work so from now I’m going to pull the breakfast card on people if they bother me.
Anyway when I came back in from outside at 9am that person sent me an email came up to me as I’m taking my coat and stuff off and asked if I had gotten to their request and I played ignorant and said I hadn’t looked at my emails.
I’m finding people have reallly no respect for work boundaries and private personal time.
Good approach. I generally don’t reply to anything that comes in after 4 pm. I might read it and prepare a reply, but not sending it till the following morning.
The overlap between work-private life has become a bit blurred since Covid and WFH becoming normalised. I’m clawing back my own time more and more cause I’ve become guilty of working longer hours.
Good on you for pushing back. Where I come from that kind of request is typical and educators especially are somehow required to be perpetually available. It’s abhorrent and it only takes a few to have loose boundaries before it becomes a norm
I actually got a little bit annoyed last night so I had some time to think about how I’d go about it. I really wanted to show that I don’t look at my emails outside of work hours, especially weekends and that I actually have others things to do when I arrive in the morning that take priority. IE. my coffee and socialising.
They’re also knew that I get into work early since we arrive roughly at around the same time so I don’t know if they were trying to take advantage of me like that but I’d be damned if I was going to do any work before 8am.
This reminded me I needed to set Quiet time for mobile Teams and mobile Outlook on the new phone. Having work on my phone lets me be more free with my day where I can leave my PC/apartment and still keep on top of things, but everything goes night night between 6pm and 8am and all day Saturday & Sunday.
I’ve turned off all notifications from my work emails so none of them pop up on screen or notifications because people have a bad habit of sending emails way after works or very early morning like at 5am - 6am waking me up.
My brother recently had an issue with a co-worker who would send an email at 4 am, then follow up at 6 am with a phone call asking why my brother was being so lazy and using very abusive language. On weekends. Issue was referred to Fair Work and after much drama was resolved by the sacking of the co-worker for being unprofessional (well that’s what it amounted to). Keep records of this shit if you feel inclined. Took my brother about 7 months to amass enough evidence of the co-worker’s abusive work habits to convince Fair work. The co-worker was doing it to others too. Not the public service - a non-govt service provider. Co-worker had to pay triple time per hour for the weekend calls/work as a fine to each person he was doing this to, and double time for calls during the week but out of normal business hours as specified in the work contracts. Added up to a nice large sum over the 7 months. I understand the abuser had to sell his house to pay all the fines.
Someone from work sent me am email last night.
I looked at it but decided not to respond to the request which they needed by 9am today.
I come in early to work so I can have a coffee and relax while I do things on my phone or read things online, not to work so from now I’m going to pull the breakfast card on people if they bother me.
Anyway when I came back in from outside at 9am that person sent me an email came up to me as I’m taking my coat and stuff off and asked if I had gotten to their request and I played ignorant and said I hadn’t looked at my emails.
I’m finding people have reallly no respect for work boundaries and private personal time.
It’s the 4th time in 3 weeks this has happened.
Good approach. I generally don’t reply to anything that comes in after 4 pm. I might read it and prepare a reply, but not sending it till the following morning.
The overlap between work-private life has become a bit blurred since Covid and WFH becoming normalised. I’m clawing back my own time more and more cause I’ve become guilty of working longer hours.
Also, the absolute audacity of that person!!
Good on you for pushing back. Where I come from that kind of request is typical and educators especially are somehow required to be perpetually available. It’s abhorrent and it only takes a few to have loose boundaries before it becomes a norm
I actually got a little bit annoyed last night so I had some time to think about how I’d go about it. I really wanted to show that I don’t look at my emails outside of work hours, especially weekends and that I actually have others things to do when I arrive in the morning that take priority. IE. my coffee and socialising.
They’re also knew that I get into work early since we arrive roughly at around the same time so I don’t know if they were trying to take advantage of me like that but I’d be damned if I was going to do any work before 8am.
Great work! Is it worth ditching email on the phone?
Haven’t hard work email on the phone in over 5 years. Best decision ever.
This reminded me I needed to set Quiet time for mobile Teams and mobile Outlook on the new phone. Having work on my phone lets me be more free with my day where I can leave my PC/apartment and still keep on top of things, but everything goes night night between 6pm and 8am and all day Saturday & Sunday.
Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t.
I’ve turned off all notifications from my work emails so none of them pop up on screen or notifications because people have a bad habit of sending emails way after works or very early morning like at 5am - 6am waking me up.
My brother recently had an issue with a co-worker who would send an email at 4 am, then follow up at 6 am with a phone call asking why my brother was being so lazy and using very abusive language. On weekends. Issue was referred to Fair Work and after much drama was resolved by the sacking of the co-worker for being unprofessional (well that’s what it amounted to). Keep records of this shit if you feel inclined. Took my brother about 7 months to amass enough evidence of the co-worker’s abusive work habits to convince Fair work. The co-worker was doing it to others too. Not the public service - a non-govt service provider. Co-worker had to pay triple time per hour for the weekend calls/work as a fine to each person he was doing this to, and double time for calls during the week but out of normal business hours as specified in the work contracts. Added up to a nice large sum over the 7 months. I understand the abuser had to sell his house to pay all the fines.
Loewhaley on instagram has great videos addressing these types of issues…