Don't text at 8 AM to say Happy Mothers Day

Anonymous
Good grief. Did none of you pay attention to OP's follow up post noting that she keeps her ringer on because her dad is in hospice? (which people close to her know)
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Did none of you pay attention to OP's follow up post noting that she keeps her ringer on because her dad is in hospice? (which people close to her know)


There are settings on your phone for that.

I have no patience for people who get bothered about this kind of stuff. People wake up at different times, go to sleep at different times, travel or live in different time zones, and work different hours. Sending texts when it's convenient to the sender is normal. Adjust your settings accordingly. Getting annoyed at others is so needless because there are easy fixes for your annoyance.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Did none of you pay attention to OP's follow up post noting that she keeps her ringer on because her dad is in hospice? (which people close to her know)


There are settings on your phone for that.

I have no patience for people who get bothered about this kind of stuff. People wake up at different times, go to sleep at different times, travel or live in different time zones, and work different hours. Sending texts when it's convenient to the sender is normal. Adjust your settings accordingly. Getting annoyed at others is so needless because there are easy fixes for your annoyance.


Doesn’t matter. Turn your phone off or leave it in another room. My kids are on the east coast. I’m on the west coast. I don’t have my phone in my bedroom because they text at all hours of the day. If you’re annoyed by texts there is a super easy fix.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Did none of you pay attention to OP's follow up post noting that she keeps her ringer on because her dad is in hospice? (which people close to her know)


There are settings on your phone for that.

I have no patience for people who get bothered about this kind of stuff. People wake up at different times, go to sleep at different times, travel or live in different time zones, and work different hours. Sending texts when it's convenient to the sender is normal. Adjust your settings accordingly. Getting annoyed at others is so needless because there are easy fixes for your annoyance.


Doesn’t matter. Turn your phone off or leave it in another room. My kids are on the east coast. I’m on the west coast. I don’t have my phone in my bedroom because they text at all hours of the day. If you’re annoyed by texts there is a super easy fix.


There’s an easy fix that doesn’t involve leaving your phone in another room LOL
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Did none of you pay attention to OP's follow up post noting that she keeps her ringer on because her dad is in hospice? (which people close to her know)


There are settings on your phone for that.

I have no patience for people who get bothered about this kind of stuff. People wake up at different times, go to sleep at different times, travel or live in different time zones, and work different hours. Sending texts when it's convenient to the sender is normal. Adjust your settings accordingly. Getting annoyed at others is so needless because there are easy fixes for your annoyance.


Doesn’t matter. Turn your phone off or leave it in another room. My kids are on the east coast. I’m on the west coast. I don’t have my phone in my bedroom because they text at all hours of the day. If you’re annoyed by texts there is a super easy fix.


There’s an easy fix that doesn’t involve leaving your phone in another room LOL


No $hit Sherlock. OP can’t quite figure this out
Anonymous
Well that's better to being woken up at 655 am by my neighbor's dog that they let out and forgot about.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:The Op has a point. The HMD texts are not coming from her kids. They are coming from outsiders who she is not the mom to. People have over sensationalized this made up holiday. Let the kids treat mom today. Have you noticed how every mom friend, sister, aunt, etc. send these HMD texts? It’s gone over board. I can see how that irritated the Op.


+1
Don't get me wrong, I always appreciate whenever anyone thinks of me in any way. But, I just do not understand all the HMD texts that only increase each year. It just seems so obligatory and, yes, even fake. Why do we need our friends sending these? Again, it just does not seem genuine and more a way to be trendy because everyone else is also doing it.
Anonymous
I manage a large team and one of my male direct reports who is a low performer and overly familiar texted me at 8 AM to wish me a HMD. Not the way to improve his performance review.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I manage a large team and one of my male direct reports who is a low performer and overly familiar texted me at 8 AM to wish me a HMD. Not the way to improve his performance review.


He's so inappropriate!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:How clueless and rude. I don't need your insipid text with heart and bouquet emojis. Let me sleep. Let me clean up the sloppy breakfast my kids made for me. Let me just have a Sunday morning.


🙄
Anonymous
Someone must have gotten out of bed on the wrong side this morning…..then had someone pee in their Corn Flakes.

Why would an 8AM text bother you?
And more importantly - Who in this day + age sleep w/their phone ringers turned on…..??!

Gone are the days when a set alarm on a cellphone 📱 would automatically turn on sound whenever a call or text would come in.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Did none of you pay attention to OP's follow up post noting that she keeps her ringer on because her dad is in hospice? (which people close to her know)


Sorry I did not see this in the original post. 🫩

But are there settings for this >> such as the Do Not Disturb setting.
Anonymous
I go to sleep at 7:30-8pm, and wake up at 4am.

I used to pause and think if I shouldn't respond to my missed-evening texts when I woke up at 4am. Then I thought, if you're too stupid or lazy to set up specific alerts on your phone, then you deserve to be woken up.

If you have a cellphone, YOU ALONE are responsible for it. Not everyone else. Set your own damn alerts/silencing.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I go to sleep at 7:30-8pm, and wake up at 4am.

I used to pause and think if I shouldn't respond to my missed-evening texts when I woke up at 4am. Then I thought, if you're too stupid or lazy to set up specific alerts on your phone, then you deserve to be woken up.

If you have a cellphone, YOU ALONE are responsible for it. Not everyone else. Set your own damn alerts/silencing.


You sound crazy. People are not responsible for the texts they send? Only the recipient is responsible? Delulu land.
Anonymous
You don’t have to respond right away. I got a ton of texts starting at 7:00 this morning. I answered the first wave at around 11:00 when I was sitting outside and enjoying the beautiful weather. You’re lucky that people are thinking about you.
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