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cupcakezealot , 8 months ago

me when people in america email me at noon american time on friday and tell me they need something done right away

lockhart , 8 months ago

lol

why would you even access work email outside of work hours?

Okkai , 8 months ago

Some people in my office have their work email synced to their phones. They also take home their laptops most weekends to “catch up”, “don’t fall behind”, or “just in case any emergencies”.

They are not in leadership positions and we operate Monday thru Friday. Why???

wizardbeard , 8 months ago

There are a lot of people unable or unwilling to let management’s poor planning and time mismanagement flow back up to the management people causing the problems. Or they are convinced that their extra effort will be rewarded somehow without management being forced into awareness of it by the pain of missed deadlines.

In my experience management will just continue to dump on people who will grind away at shit until it is done scheduled hours be damned. They end up becoming too valuable where they’re at due to the perseverence, while not actually building or improving any skills. Where’s the time for skilling up if you’re always busy being the guy churning through the pile of shit no one else will do?

It’s the myth that hard work is rewarded. It is, but generally only if it’s hard work due to difficulty instead of due to the time cost alone.

dan , 8 months ago

Some people in my office have their work email synced to their phones

Sure, but configure it to turn off notifications outside work hours. Unless you’re oncall, it’s probably fine to handle the new emails during business hours.

fibojoly , 8 months ago

I’m literally chatting with a friend in China right now who received a phone call from her boss at 9:30pm for some last minute report she wanted my friend to write for the next day. The friend had previously blocked her number… So she used a different one. Insane shit.

MadBob , 8 months ago

I have a colleague who sends me work messages on Whatsapp when neither of us are at work. I don’t think he has a social life, because he is in many other respects a massive cunt.

lonewalk , 8 months ago

lol my meetings start at 6:30AM, 8 is downright bougie

davel , 8 months ago

Pet peeve: coworkers who don’t understand that Slack, like email, is an asynchronous conversation.

ultratiem , 8 months ago

Pet peeve: coworkers that don’t make use of Slack’s in-depth scheduling features to mute messages or requests outside of work hours. I should be able to send you shit at 5am. Whether you’re notified that second or at 9am the following work day is a you problem 🥶

davel , 8 months ago

These are straight-up 📠.

dan , 8 months ago

My colleagues having a chat about their favourite tv shows in the operations channel at 7am have entered the chat.

davel , 8 months ago

No @here, @channel, or @$USERNAME, no response.

ultratiem , 8 months ago

Real pet peeve: people that abuse @here and @channel

davel , 8 months ago

People who misuse @channel face The Wheel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHjHXpFiegA

And by misuse, I mean use it for any other reason than SEV0 & SEV1 incidents or an office fire.

ArbitraryValue , 8 months ago

An email isn’t a phone call… If I email you at 4:00 AM it’s because I’m working at 4:00 AM, not because I expect you to be working at 4:00 AM.

merc , 8 months ago

Yeah, who cares when someone sends the email. If your boss expects you to start responding to emails at obscene times, that’s another matter.

DrJenkem , 8 months ago

Exactly. That’s why I don’t enable email notifications on my phone, and I won’t see your 4am email until I roll into the office at 9:15am.

Artyom , 8 months ago

This is true, but when I slack you at 4:00AM…