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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d love to fire OP. LOL

Relax dude, the boss isn't on this thread.

[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.

It doesn’t matter if coworker was wrong. They followed the process and called OP. It’s OPs responsibility to be available in emergencies. OP needs to be available via different modes of communication as that is their job.

On Monday, the coworker can be instructed on what is or isn’t an emergency.

Agreed.

OP definitely needs to go to HR because the coworker getting paid to handle emergencies does not understand what an emergency is. Calling everyone for stupid minutiae when they’re off the clock is a waste of company resources.

100%. They are also denigrating any response to an actual emergency by having everyone think a stupid email with a question about rescheduling an appoitment warrants a call. If everything is an emergecy, nothing is an emergency.

The phone holder is either incredibly stupid and new or they are trying to set OP to take a fall for something. Padding the complaint log to justify further action.

[Anonymous]

Don’t respond to non emergencies. Don’t check your email if you don’t even want to know. Sometimes I do, sometimes I let people deal with their own problems. Everyone is entitled to their choices. Your mistake was responding to a nothing burger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I'm 100% on your side and agree. I do not open emails on the weekend.

That said, here is how I would have handled this situation.

Suzy calls and says what she says. I would say:

Suzy, I don't accept work emails or calls on weekends unless it's an emergency such as (insert what are emergencies). This situation is not an emergency. Wednesday is fine for the reschedule, but I will respond on Monday. In the future please do not call me for not urgent reasons on the weekend.

/end

That way you make your boundaries and direction clear regarding future interactions.

How do you know whether or not it is an emergency if you aren't checking your emaill?

First, I agree that if you don't work weekends, have zero obliagions during that time, have no "on call" status, and are non-exempt hourly, you don't need to check work communicatoin on the weekends. Period.

However, awkwardly, the fact that she answered "in case it was an emergency" sort of undermines the argument that she doesn't need to check messages on the weekend. What if the client message she didn't see on Saturday had in fact been an emergency? OP's own post suggests that that woud have been something she was obligated to respond to, right?

Now, having answered the call and learned that it was not an emergency, the co-worker's agitation was unwarranted. Probably not an HR issue though.

[Anonymous]

Voicemail. It’s been around for a while. Screen your calls. If they’re desperate they’ll text details.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d love to fire OP. LOL

Yes me too! I'm just, perhaps irrationally, annoyed by OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Wrong, re tard. OP isn't part of the emergenecy crew and isn't paid. Others are. This isn't his problem. I swear you losers will let anyone walk all over you.

Have you not learned that this term is offensive. What is wrong with you?

[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.

Wrong, re tard. OP isn't part of the emergenecy crew and isn't paid. Others are. This isn't his problem. I swear you losers will let anyone walk all over you.

Have you not learned that this term is offensive. What is wrong with you?

If that PP is on your side that’s how you know you’re in the wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The building is not on fire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

It doesn’t matter if coworker was wrong. They followed the process and called OP. It’s OPs responsibility to be available in emergencies. OP needs to be available via different modes of communication as that is their job.

On Monday, the coworker can be instructed on what is or isn’t an emergency.

That’s not the process. The process isn’t to call OP every 5 seconds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I'm 100% on your side and agree. I do not open emails on the weekend.

That said, here is how I would have handled this situation.

Suzy calls and says what she says. I would say:

Suzy, I don't accept work emails or calls on weekends unless it's an emergency such as (insert what are emergencies). This situation is not an emergency. Wednesday is fine for the reschedule, but I will respond on Monday. In the future please do not call me for not urgent reasons on the weekend.

/end

That way you make your boundaries and direction clear regarding future interactions.

How do you know whether or not it is an emergency if you aren't checking your emaill?

First, I agree that if you don't work weekends, have zero obliagions during that time, have no "on call" status, and are non-exempt hourly, you don't need to check work communicatoin on the weekends. Period.

However, awkwardly, the fact that she answered "in case it was an emergency" sort of undermines the argument that she doesn't need to check messages on the weekend. What if the client message she didn't see on Saturday had in fact been an emergency? OP's own post suggests that that woud have been something she was obligated to respond to, right?

Now, having answered the call and learned that it was not an emergency, the co-worker's agitation was unwarranted. Probably not an HR issue though.

It's not an emergency, nor did it come in as one. This is someone with no life, hassling people on a Saturday morning about a simple low importance issue because they happen to be on the same group email.

Its the same losers that tell you your phone rang while you were away. Like, thanks dude, I don't need a babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I'm 100% on your side and agree. I do not open emails on the weekend.

That said, here is how I would have handled this situation.

Suzy calls and says what she says. I would say:

Suzy, I don't accept work emails or calls on weekends unless it's an emergency such as (insert what are emergencies). This situation is not an emergency. Wednesday is fine for the reschedule, but I will respond on Monday. In the future please do not call me for not urgent reasons on the weekend.

/end

That way you make your boundaries and direction clear regarding future interactions.

How do you know whether or not it is an emergency if you aren't checking your emaill?

First, I agree that if you don't work weekends, have zero obliagions during that time, have no "on call" status, and are non-exempt hourly, you don't need to check work communicatoin on the weekends. Period.

However, awkwardly, the fact that she answered "in case it was an emergency" sort of undermines the argument that she doesn't need to check messages on the weekend. What if the client message she didn't see on Saturday had in fact been an emergency? OP's own post suggests that that woud have been something she was obligated to respond to, right?

Now, having answered the call and learned that it was not an emergency, the co-worker's agitation was unwarranted. Probably not an HR issue though.

NP and this response to the PP is off.
The app gave a perfectly reasonable response on how to handle and reinforce boundaries.
Email is never an appropriate medium to communicate about an emergency.
A true emergency 🚨 requires a phone call (not even a voicemail but a true phone call where you actuslly reach and speak to the person on the other end of the phone). One cannot and should not assume an “emergency” message was received.
OP answered phone call with expectation that a colleague would not be trying to reach her by phone on the weekend unless it was an emergency. It was not.
OP’s response was reasonable and the “how hard is it to answer email?” was unnecessary, but could be met with a calm explanation of “it’s not that it’s difficult to check email, it’s just that checking work email on the weekend is something I choose not to do since it is during non-work hours. But I’ll be happy to address this during work hours on Monday. And as you can see, I’m also available by phone if someone needs to reach me for a true emergency.”

[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!

Yawn. You are not that important. Nobody cares if you reply back on Monday

PP. See there you go assuming I think I’m important. I am not. I just have a job that requires periodically checking in on the weekend (think accountant, lawyer who left professional services for industry).

Our facilities team definitely checks emails over the weekends, even those who are not on call..

OP sounds immature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I'm 100% on your side and agree. I do not open emails on the weekend.

That said, here is how I would have handled this situation.

Suzy calls and says what she says. I would say:

Suzy, I don't accept work emails or calls on weekends unless it's an emergency such as (insert what are emergencies). This situation is not an emergency. Wednesday is fine for the reschedule, but I will respond on Monday. In the future please do not call me for not urgent reasons on the weekend.

/end

That way you make your boundaries and direction clear regarding future interactions.

How do you know whether or not it is an emergency if you aren't checking your emaill?

First, I agree that if you don't work weekends, have zero obliagions during that time, have no "on call" status, and are non-exempt hourly, you don't need to check work communicatoin on the weekends. Period.

However, awkwardly, the fact that she answered "in case it was an emergency" sort of undermines the argument that she doesn't need to check messages on the weekend. What if the client message she didn't see on Saturday had in fact been an emergency? OP's own post suggests that that woud have been something she was obligated to respond to, right?

Now, having answered the call and learned that it was not an emergency, the co-worker's agitation was unwarranted. Probably not an HR issue though.

Emergencies are not communicated over email in any org. Hence why the phone call was out of line and unwarranted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I'm 100% on your side and agree. I do not open emails on the weekend.

That said, here is how I would have handled this situation.

Suzy calls and says what she says. I would say:

Suzy, I don't accept work emails or calls on weekends unless it's an emergency such as (insert what are emergencies). This situation is not an emergency. Wednesday is fine for the reschedule, but I will respond on Monday. In the future please do not call me for not urgent reasons on the weekend.

/end

That way you make your boundaries and direction clear regarding future interactions.

How do you know whether or not it is an emergency if you aren't checking your emaill?

First, I agree that if you don't work weekends, have zero obliagions during that time, have no "on call" status, and are non-exempt hourly, you don't need to check work communicatoin on the weekends. Period.

However, awkwardly, the fact that she answered "in case it was an emergency" sort of undermines the argument that she doesn't need to check messages on the weekend. What if the client message she didn't see on Saturday had in fact been an emergency? OP's own post suggests that that woud have been something she was obligated to respond to, right?

Now, having answered the call and learned that it was not an emergency, the co-worker's agitation was unwarranted. Probably not an HR issue though.

Emergencies are not communicated over email in any org. Hence why the phone call was out of line and unwarranted.

lol try working at a big law firm