Colleagues With No lives

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t answer calls! Don’t text back, don’t engage. On Monday, tell them you don’t work on the weekends.

I work in a vey high compensate industry, and my manager expects me to respond within 15 minutes. Do I like it? NO but they pay me 450K/yr so I am willing to tolerate it.

Well good for you. But are you the OP? For most of us mere mortals, with regular jobs who don't get paid 450k, we get to tell colleagues to buzz off when we're not on duty.

And me, who gets paid 95k, will just ignore that coworkers email.

That's a lot of money. For that much, you should be required to be on call at all times.

95k a year is a lot of money?

Think you are responding to the sarcastic ass on here who seems to be the perfect office politician and loves telling others how wrong they are because they do not bend to the almighty corporation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t answer calls! Don’t text back, don’t engage. On Monday, tell them you don’t work on the weekends.

I work in a vey high compensate industry, and my manager expects me to respond within 15 minutes. Do I like it? NO but they pay me 450K/yr so I am willing to tolerate it.

Well good for you. But are you the OP? For most of us mere mortals, with regular jobs who don't get paid 450k, we get to tell colleagues to buzz off when we're not on duty.

And me, who gets paid 95k, will just ignore that coworkers email.

That's a lot of money. For that much, you should be required to be on call at all times.

What? Do you live in the DC area with student loans and an apartment or a mortgage? Bit! please!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No spouses, no kids, no hobbies, no church, no volunteering, honestly, I'm not sure they even have any friends.

All they have is work. And they choose to work 7 days a week

And they call you on Saturday mornings (while you're canoeing the Shennandoah with your sons) asking about absolutely meaningless trvial things (we work in automotive and aircraft parts supply chain management, not cancer research)..... how do you tell them to piss off?

This lady has done this three times now in the last two months and then 'complained' to our manager how I was 'unresponsive' on the weekend.

Firstly, you have very little idea of my life outside work. You don't know whether I go to any house of worship or what religious practices I may or may not partake in. Secondly you have no idea if I have hobbies or volunteer or what if anything I do with any friends I may have bc I don't talk about thos things. Thirdly, you are not required to answer your phone on the weekends. So just let them leave a voicemail and you can respond when you're ready.

The less people at work know about you, the better. Nobody lives in a vacuum, and people know I have a very sick parent, but other than that, nothing about me.

[Anonymous]

OP sounds awful. The post could have been written without the nasty speculation about the colleague. When I was at a law firm, there were partners who had a spouse and kids who seemingly worked 24/7, and called/emailed me constantly on weekends. Workaholics aren't necessarily single and childless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP sounds awful. The post could have been written without the nasty speculation about the colleague. When I was at a law firm, there were partners who had a spouse and kids who seemingly worked 24/7, and called/emailed me constantly on weekends. Workaholics aren't necessarily single and childless.

Because that's the culture. In law firms, even if you could get the work done in much less time, you have to show that you would die for them.

[Anonymous]

these people are literally losers.

[Anonymous]

Our executive director is like this, she has nobody. Not even a pet.

[Anonymous]

Are you the troll that created the post a few months ago about being called on the weekend by a contractor who has been given your number by a colleague?


Just stop picking up the phone, your weirdo.

[Anonymous]

"stock" characters in every office. I have met them all through the years, just the same person with a different name:

- the "nobody works more hours than me" champ. Yet every time I am on an intense project, never see them around

- the "I haven't taken a vacation day in 10 years" annoyance. Good for you, bro.

- the person who says when you come in at 7:30,"oh, here's the afternoon crew".

- and OPs case, the person who sends emails on weekends or an insane hour to show how dedicated they are and how deficient everyone else is.

OP, through life and endless corporate games, you have to let those people stop getting in your head.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t answer calls! Don’t text back, don’t engage. On Monday, tell them you don’t work on the weekends.

I work in a vey high compensate industry, and my manager expects me to respond within 15 minutes. Do I like it? NO but they pay me 450K/yr so I am willing to tolerate it.

Well good for you. But are you the OP? For most of us mere mortals, with regular jobs who don't get paid 450k, we get to tell colleagues to buzz off when we're not on duty.

And me, who gets paid 95k, will just ignore that coworkers email.

That's a lot of money. For that much, you should be required to be on call at all times.

That's poverty level in DC. Know you audience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"stock" characters in every office. I have met them all through the years, just the same person with a different name:

- the "nobody works more hours than me" champ. Yet every time I am on an intense project, never see them around

- the "I haven't taken a vacation day in 10 years" annoyance. Good for you, bro.

- the person who says when you come in at 7:30,"oh, here's the afternoon crew".

- and OPs case, the person who sends emails on weekends or an insane hour to show how dedicated they are and how deficient everyone else is.



OP, through life and endless corporate games, you have to let those people stop getting in your head.

I worked with one of these. He was 65, slow as molasses, often struggles to get up from his desk without audibly groaning. He's pathetic. He used to do this weird thing where he refused to be the first person to leave at the end of the day. He just NEEDED the boss to see that he was first in, last out, even if his work product sucked compared to others. Such a dinosaur mindset.

So I used to mess with him. We worked on the 3rd floor in a non elevator building and he could barely handle the stairs. So at the end of the day I'd get up, grab my stuff and say "see everyone tomorrow!" and walk out.

Then I'd wait on the sidewalk until he came out- always three minutes later- and then I'd say "Crap!, I forgot to finish out that last email" and I'd bolt back up stairs. It just killed him because there was no way he was climbing them again. Then I'd play on my phone for 5 minutes and leave again.

Beat these losers at their own game, OP.