"How hard is it to look at your email?"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure why listing what you did over the weekend is relevant to the situation of a colleague calling about what they thought was an important situation. Why not just say you had not checked email but can respond Monday? Or even, take 5 minutes to respond now? It is not like you were called into work or in the middle of an important event.

It's like you didn't read the post. OP doesn't want clients clawing their way into his off hours and personal life. And I applaud him for that. You kids today are so stupid that you essentially have been brain washed into thinking "It's just an email!" It's just a phone call!" "It's just a couple hours on a Sunday!"



My employer will never own me. But, you do you.

Holy F. OP works in Facility Management and maybe the facilities she manages are open on the weekends. It is her job to be available as she said herself.

OP already said that she isn't on call this weekend - her coworker that called was and was being paid for it. OP osnt being paid for being on call this weekend.

Unless OP is getting paid hourly, these things come with territory. Do you not work PP?

DP and I’m entirely with you on this. If you’re not hourly, then the work simply needs to get done.

It’s an email. It doesn’t take a lot of time.

Yeah Monday

[Anonymous]

Your colleague obvisouly has mental disease. Stay away from her.

[Anonymous]

I’m impressed that in 2026 you have a job where you DONT have to check emails on the weekend!

[Anonymous]

If anybody needed confirmation that 99% of white collar jobs in the US are complete and absolute bullshit, this thread confirms it.

OP should have d just ignored the call and emailed back. OP should also not get so wound up as to suggest “going to HR.”

What a joke.

[Anonymous]

1. Check emails a few times per day over the weekends just in case there is an emergency.

2. Tell your colleague that only messages marked Urgent get addressed over the weekend, but it needs to be a legitimate emergency. If not an emergency, you’ll reply the next business day.

[Anonymous]

The OP works a job, facilities management, where “they don’t work weekends unless it’s an emergency”. Their phone rings on a Sunday. They answer it because it might be an emergency which implies that they need to somewhat monitor their job in case there IS an emergency.

The coworker described the situation and it was not an emergency. The OP was fine saying as such and that they could respond on Monday. There should be a conversation with the employee to describe what an emergency is or isn’t but that should be end of it.

OP is blowing this way out of proportion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m impressed that in 2026 you have a job where you DONT have to check emails on the weekend!

I am surprised that you ask this question. Unless OP is in a highly paid postion, such as CEO or big law, she should not check emails during weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m impressed that in 2026 you have a job where you DONT have to check emails on the weekend!

Oh sweet summer child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OP works a job, facilities management, where “they don’t work weekends unless it’s an emergency”. Their phone rings on a Sunday. They answer it because it might be an emergency which implies that they need to somewhat monitor their job in case there IS an emergency.

The coworker described the situation and it was not an emergency. The OP was fine saying as such and that they could respond on Monday. There should be a conversation with the employee to describe what an emergency is or isn’t but that should be end of it.

OP is blowing this way out of proportion.

Op is NOT blowing this way out of proportion. The coworker said "how hard is it to look at your email?" This is very offensive and crossed the boundary. No coworkers should treat me like this. This cowork who are irrational will likely say bad things behind OP's back. OP should absolutely report this to HR to have a record to protect herself. Talking to supervisor may not be a good idea because supervisors almost always want you to work more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m impressed that in 2026 you have a job where you DONT have to check emails on the weekend!

I am surprised that you ask this question. Unless OP is in a highly paid postion, such as CEO or big law, she should not check emails during weekend.

You don’t get that job unless you’re the type who checks emails.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Check emails a few times per day over the weekends just in case there is an emergency.

2. Tell your colleague that only messages marked Urgent get addressed over the weekend, but it needs to be a legitimate emergency. If not an emergency, you’ll reply the next business day.

If there's an emergency, call or text. It's an emergency.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The OP works a job, facilities management, where “they don’t work weekends unless it’s an emergency”. Their phone rings on a Sunday. They answer it because it might be an emergency which implies that they need to somewhat monitor their job in case there IS an emergency.

The coworker described the situation and it was not an emergency. The OP was fine saying as such and that they could respond on Monday. There should be a conversation with the employee to describe what an emergency is or isn’t but that should be end of it.

OP is blowing this way out of proportion.

Op is NOT blowing this way out of proportion. The coworker said "how hard is it to look at your email?" This is very offensive and crossed the boundary. No coworkers should treat me like this. This cowork who are irrational will likely say bad things behind OP's back. OP should absolutely report this to HR to have a record to protect herself. Talking to supervisor may not be a good idea because supervisors almost always want you to work more.

Yes OP, you are blowing this out of proportion. Part of your job is to be available for emergencies if they happen on weekends and you have to monitor that. You just didn’t like your co-worker bluntly reminding you to do your job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m impressed that in 2026 you have a job where you DONT have to check emails on the weekend!

I am surprised that you ask this question. Unless OP is in a highly paid postion, such as CEO or big law, she should not check emails during weekend.

You don’t get that job unless you’re the type who checks emails.

Not everyone wants that type of jobs. OP is not in that kind of jobs and is not paid that money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The OP works a job, facilities management, where “they don’t work weekends unless it’s an emergency”. Their phone rings on a Sunday. They answer it because it might be an emergency which implies that they need to somewhat monitor their job in case there IS an emergency.

The coworker described the situation and it was not an emergency. The OP was fine saying as such and that they could respond on Monday. There should be a conversation with the employee to describe what an emergency is or isn’t but that should be end of it.

OP is blowing this way out of proportion.

Op is NOT blowing this way out of proportion. The coworker said "how hard is it to look at your email?" This is very offensive and crossed the boundary. No coworkers should treat me like this. This cowork who are irrational will likely say bad things behind OP's back. OP should absolutely report this to HR to have a record to protect herself. Talking to supervisor may not be a good idea because supervisors almost always want you to work more.

Yes OP, you are blowing this out of proportion. Part of your job is to be available for emergencies if they happen on weekends and you have to monitor that. You just didn’t like your co-worker bluntly reminding you to do your job.

Are you that coworer? Rational people will not respond this way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The OP works a job, facilities management, where “they don’t work weekends unless it’s an emergency”. Their phone rings on a Sunday. They answer it because it might be an emergency which implies that they need to somewhat monitor their job in case there IS an emergency.

The coworker described the situation and it was not an emergency. The OP was fine saying as such and that they could respond on Monday. There should be a conversation with the employee to describe what an emergency is or isn’t but that should be end of it.

OP is blowing this way out of proportion.

Op is NOT blowing this way out of proportion. The coworker said "how hard is it to look at your email?" This is very offensive and crossed the boundary. No coworkers should treat me like this. This cowork who are irrational will likely say bad things behind OP's back. OP should absolutely report this to HR to have a record to protect herself. Talking to supervisor may not be a good idea because supervisors almost always want you to work more.

Yes OP, you are blowing this out of proportion. Part of your job is to be available for emergencies if they happen on weekends and you have to monitor that. You just didn’t like your co-worker bluntly reminding you to do your job.

It was literally the coworker's job to be on call.OP picked up thinking the on-call person was notifying her of an emergency. There was no emergency, so the coworker was wrong. The coworker's job isn't to monitor OP's random emails and make sure they are responded to.