Eh, they can send whatever the hell they want whenever the hell they want, I won’t be seeing it until I am ready
How would they know when the email was sent? What kind of psychopat would check the sent time of an email in order to get angry at their cowoker for sending it at an unacceptable time!?
I start work at 9:00 most days, as do most of my coworkers. Earlier this month, at 6:54 one morning, I was emailed an invitation for a meeting at 8:00. I was later asked why I didn’t attend.
I’m not sure if I’d say I was angry, but I definitely wasn’t happy about it. That’s not just an email, to be fair, but still feels like it counts.
Of course you checked what time the email had been sent under those circumstances, but if the meeting had been for the day after instead, would you really then have looked to check at what time the email had been sent?
They can just look at the time they received it? I think the overwhelming majority of emails are sent instantly, not delayed, so you don’t really need to look at the sent time.
They can just look at the time they received it?
But what kind of bizarre psychological process would compel someone to do that in order to get angry at their cowoker for sending it at an unacceptable time!?
I don’t know, dawg
check your mail on your work laptop ONLY and ONLY during work-hours
dont connect your private devices with work-related stuff, if you do for whatever reason, hide notifications from the app
and of course, dont touch your work laptop, when youre not being paid to do so
Most people don’t realize that many organizations require devices that have email on them to be enrolled in device management. So when you put your email on your phone you are also making it so the IT department at your work can track your location and remotely erase your phone. One place I worked also required a PIN on the phone so you couldn’t use fingerprint or Face ID.
Suffice it to say that I haven’t had work email on a personal device since Blackberrys were a thing.
I’m in favor of anyone emailing whenever it is convenient for them as long as they do not expect a response outside of the recipient’s local working hours.
Calls - understandable. But what’s the problem with emailing? Open it at 8:01
I will open it when I see fit, and no sooner. Also, I get in at 10.
This is the way. I check my emails twice a day, once in the morning, so I know if any issues arose overnight, and once after lunch. Constantly checking your mail is a massive drain on efficiency as you’re constantly mentally context switching.
If something catastrophic happens, someone will ping you on chat. Once you get over the initial anxiety that you might be “out of the loop”, it becomes a lot easier to maintain focus and be much more productive for much less stress.
When you do check your mail, remember, just like in a test, read everything before you start replying! The conversation will progress, so you don’t want to reply to an earlier mail if a later one supercedes it. Sorting most recent first helps with this.
If you’re just sitting on your hands not opening the emails during work time then that’s kinda weird. If you have more urgent stuff then no issues with that, if it’s really urgent people would probably call anyway
It’s not about “more urgent stuff” but maintaining focus.
If it is more urgent than what you’re currently doing it sounds like it would be good to deal with that email first. At least if someone else is waiting for your reply.
If it’s urgent, they’ll call or at very least ping me in Teams
Yeah I mentioned that earlier
In my experience people who let work violate the personal life boundary have issues with other boundaries and are generally difficult to work with.
How do you know of you haven’t logged in yet?
I work eight hours ahead of all my co-workers. Sometimes I have the energy to schedule every send, sometimes I just fire that shit off.
What’s the convenience of scheduling?
Someone won’t get upset about being emailed outside of work hours, I guess based on this post
I’m fine with early emails because I send out late emails. Luckily I’m at a company where most people understand that there are some people who work weird hours and that it’s ok.
I think renaming them is an appropriate punishment. “Bob from Accounting” is now “Smeagol”.
