Boss contacting me day after day on vacation--nothing urgent

[Anonymous]

Your vacation responder with contact info is your response. Just make sure it is detailed. Mine is something like:

For media inquiries, contact X.

For web inquiries, contact Y.

For photo and graphic design inquiries, contact Q.

[Anonymous]

Yes, OP did not need to respond, and probably shouldn't have.

AND ALSO the boss should not be calling. That is on him.

OP, I feel for you and I'm sorry your boss is disrupting your vacation! That sucks.

[Anonymous]

If it’s just an email, I think that’s an implicit “when you get back….”.
If it’s more urgent, then they need to start email with “so sorry to bother you on vacation, but if you tell me where you save the spensky file, I can deal with this client this week.” Or whatever.
But people who get all amped up because they treat each email as an intrusion on their off time drive me nuts. It’s mail—it won’t explode if you don’t answer it while you’re off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it’s just an email, I think that’s an implicit “when you get back….”.
If it’s more urgent, then they need to start email with “so sorry to bother you on vacation, but if you tell me where you save the spensky file, I can deal with this client this week.” Or whatever.
But people who get all amped up because they treat each email as an intrusion on their off time drive me nuts. It’s mail—it won’t explode if you don’t answer it while you’re off.

This all makes sense if the person is the only one with the information or who can do the thing.
This does not make sense when there are other people not on vacation who have the information and can do the thing (like OP described.)

I am frequently a defender of management on this forum, but this really is bad management and a bad practice.