Coworker texts me nights and weekends WWYD?

[Anonymous]

Not sure where it is in your settings, but I can tweak DND to let certain people (my kids, DH) through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

I did ask her not to text me about work. A couple times, years ago, we got together outside of work on a weekend, so we texted to meet up for that.

I don’t have a work phone, so this is all on my personal phone. Can I block just this one person? I had it on DND last night and missed a call from my husband and texts from my neighbors, who were out of power.

I shouldn’t have to set all my notifications to DND just because my coworker has no respect for my personal life.

“Hi Cathy, please send all work related questions and communications to my work email. I’ll answer them when I’m on the clock.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

I did ask her not to text me about work. A couple times, years ago, we got together outside of work on a weekend, so we texted to meet up for that.

I don’t have a work phone, so this is all on my personal phone. Can I block just this one person? I had it on DND last night and missed a call from my husband and texts from my neighbors, who were out of power.

I shouldn’t have to set all my notifications to DND just because my coworker has no respect for my personal life.

Seriously? Just google how to mute someone on text……

[Anonymous]

This can’t be real. Just mute the text chain with her and only look at it during business hours.

[Anonymous]

If you ignore it and answer when it’s convenient for her, she’ll get the message quickly after a few times.

[Anonymous]

Tell her that because she’s unprofessionally contacting you outside of work hours, that you will be blocking her phone number after hours, on weekends, on vacation days, etc., and her texts outside of business hours will not only go unanswered and unread, they will go undelivered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This can’t be real. Just mute the text chain with her and only look at it during business hours.

How do I do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell her that because she’s unprofessionally contacting you outside of work hours, that you will be blocking her phone number after hours, on weekends, on vacation days, etc., and her texts outside of business hours will not only go unanswered and unread, they will go undelivered.

You people are bonkers. Yeah, sure try the approach above and see how it works out for you.

OP - just don't respond to any nighttime texts until tomorrow and then tell her, directly and ideally in person -- "Hey, I tend not to see nighttime texts, so please if you're reaching out after hours, just send to my work email instead." Doesn't have to be a rude or aggressive comment.

[Anonymous]

If you’ve got an iPhone, open her text, tap on her name and on the next screen turn on “hide alerts”. Her texts will come through but you won’t get a notification about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’ve got an iPhone, open her text, tap on her name and on the next screen turn on “hide alerts”. Her texts will come through but you won’t get a notification about them.

Op here. Thank you! This sounds like a good solution!

[Anonymous]

Set up a Slack Channel

[Anonymous]

How do people live in the real world?

turn off notifications, put the phone on DND, ignore. Any of these are common sense reactions.

[Anonymous]

ffs it's not 'harassment' just dont answer in those times and then tell her that you have a work cell and you dont check it during those times.

also are you sure you dont have the kind of job where you need to not have such set boundaries? I work in advertising and if anyone said 'dont text me after hours' they'd be laughed out of the building.

[Anonymous]

Block her. If that interferes with you work explain to her manager that she is failing at her job.

[Anonymous]

I would completely ignore all of her texts. She is so rude.