Ignoring Non Work Related Texts on Weekends

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are off the clock there is no such thing as a weekend. I have hourly workers who work for me. I on purpose don't know their cell phone numbers as never plan on contacting them off work hours.

Highly paid exempt people who get a bonus with a company paid cell phone getting a text on a weekend freaking out well I go a solution.

I actually had someone once like you. I said go back on the clock, take away your paid for cell phone, you work 800 am to 430pm daily. You will get a set lunch break and a set 15 minute break. No work at all expected non work hours and on your lunch or break. Also will never contact you on vacation or day off. In fact I will have no way to do that.

Trade off I need you to take a $120,000 a year pay cut. So it will cost you $10,000 a month to avoid and occasional weekend text or email that needs response after work hours.

The person apparently realized she spends tops 1-2 hours a month on these after hour or weekend texts and she get paid $10,000 a month to do it. She was very happy going forward to answer them.

You're overpaying people 10K a month in anticipation of an occasional weekend email?

Pretty sure that makes you the fool.

I think you need to read a bit more carefully. The point is, hourly workers are paid less and are able to leave their work entirely at the office. After a certain salary threshold, you expect your employees to be available in the event of something after-hours needing their attention.

Maybe it's just few emails a month that they need to respond do. But if there's a five-alarm fire on a weekend, they'd damn better be there helping solve the problem. This is why they're paid more, and given more responsibility than, hourly workers.

This isn't work related, you moron. Bill had a kidney stone.

For Christ's sake, try and keep up.

Stone cold smoked that fool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are off the clock there is no such thing as a weekend. I have hourly workers who work for me. I on purpose don't know their cell phone numbers as never plan on contacting them off work hours.

Highly paid exempt people who get a bonus with a company paid cell phone getting a text on a weekend freaking out well I go a solution.

I actually had someone once like you. I said go back on the clock, take away your paid for cell phone, you work 800 am to 430pm daily. You will get a set lunch break and a set 15 minute break. No work at all expected non work hours and on your lunch or break. Also will never contact you on vacation or day off. In fact I will have no way to do that.

Trade off I need you to take a $120,000 a year pay cut. So it will cost you $10,000 a month to avoid and occasional weekend text or email that needs response after work hours.

The person apparently realized she spends tops 1-2 hours a month on these after hour or weekend texts and she get paid $10,000 a month to do it. She was very happy going forward to answer them.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine why anyone would tell work colleagues they were heading to the ER over the weekend??? Is this a thing? Why?

And I certainly can’t imagine telling colleagues about kidney stones. So weird.

Exactly. Don’t these people have families and friends to reach out to help in these situations? I wouldn’t want my co-workers this deep into my business.