Is it rude to send emails late at night?

[Anonymous]

lolwut? Texts/calls after 9pm or so can be done on an individual basis -- my wife turns into a pumpkin at 9pm or so but my parents and I are still rocking until maybe 11pm-midnight (and 1-2am on a weekend). But emails? Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Email? No.
Texts? Yes, IMO, because most people have an audible notification of text and a text could wake them up. so I don't text people I don't know too well late at night.

But that's just me and I've got no clue what the etiquette is on this.

OP here.

But when you're on the receiving end, don't a text and an email look the same? Do they look different somehow? I don't have an iphone, so I don't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've seen a lot of nannies in the Nanny Forum complaining about this. I don't understand why people are slaves to their electronic devices. The device is meant to be a convenience, not to entrap and enslave you and demand your attention. Turn.It.Off.

That could be that the employers expect them to be received and answered. Different issue.

"I emailed you last night that we needed you here early today""

Nope, just the mom catching up on her emails late at night. For some reason it causes nannies constant aggro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Don't you turn off your cellphone when you go to sleep? My cellphone isn't even in my bedroom during the night.

My cell phone is right by bed every night so that is easily accessible in an emergency. I will be able to call the police just like the young Mom in Oklahoma so that I can request permission before I shoot an intruder in the middle of the night. I would probably just shoot first, though.

[Anonymous]

There is nothing wrong with sending emails at night.
Like prior PP, my cell phone is on and always right by my bed every night as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Don't you turn off your cellphone when you go to sleep? My cellphone isn't even in my bedroom during the night.

My cell phone is right by bed every night so that is easily accessible in an emergency. I will be able to call the police just like the young Mom in Oklahoma so that I can request permission before I shoot an intruder in the middle of the night. I would probably just shoot first, though.

Now that's paranoid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with sending emails at night.
Like prior PP, my cell phone is on and always right by my bed every night as well.

May I ask why you feel the need to leave your cellphone on all night? Do you not have a landline?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with sending emails at night.
Like prior PP, my cell phone is on and always right by my bed every night as well.

May I ask why you feel the need to leave your cellphone on all night? Do you not have a landline?

She probably doesn't. Not many people have land lines anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with sending emails at night.
Like prior PP, my cell phone is on and always right by my bed every night as well.

May I ask why you feel the need to leave your cellphone on all night? Do you not have a landline?

She probably doesn't. Not many people have land lines anymore.

And you're 25 years old, right?!

[Anonymous]

I work from home with two small kids so often my best work hours are 10:00 pm -midnight. I never think twice about sending emails late at night; in fact, my other mom-in-the-workforce friends and I joke that we can always count on a full inbox at 7:00 a.m. because of people like us who email in the middle of the night.

It's funny though. Back in the days of voice mail, I used to hesitate to call people's offices and leave a voice message in the middle of the night (knowing they weren't there, of course) because I was afraid that I would look like a crazy insomniac who did business at vampire hours. But I never think that way about e-mail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with sending emails at night.
Like prior PP, my cell phone is on and always right by my bed every night as well.

May I ask why you feel the need to leave your cellphone on all night? Do you not have a landline?

She probably doesn't. Not many people have land lines anymore.

I'd say everyone I know (late 30s to early 50s) still has a landline. Even if I didn't, I wouldn't leave my cellphone on overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
She probably doesn't. Not many people have land lines anymore.

Maybe not that you know. While it may surprise the under-25 crowd, there are still more households WITH a land line than without one.

[Anonymous]

Sending email late at night is OK, but it's silly to expect someone to read it before the next morning.

[Anonymous]

Okay, news alert folks, you can get e-mail accounts FOR FREE from many providers including yahoo, hotmail and gmail.

If you really have emergency issues that you must be available for, such as on-call support, then you need more than one e-mail address. One for emergencies and one for non-emergencies. Turn OFF notification for the non-emergencies at night and only leave notification on the emergency address at night. But the nature of e-mail is that it is convenient because I can write to you when it is convenient to me and you can read it when it is convenient to you. It's your problem if you don't know how or refuse to manage your incoming e-mail to fit your schedule.

No, it is not rude to send e-mail at night. It's rude of a lazy person to try to impose limits on others when it is within her control to stop the problem.

[Anonymous]

News alert, PP. email is not suitable for emergency messages.