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

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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.

Actually you sound immature.

[Anonymous]

Op, your colleague was out of line and rude.

If you aren't obligated to be checking your emails, then don't. Your weekend is your weekend.

[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.

It can get done on Monday.

[Anonymous]

Protect your weekend/holidays/evenings/time off, folks.

[Anonymous]

OP should defintely report this coworker to HR. How could a coworker say "How hard is it to look at your email?" and then hang up the phone? OP should not tolerate this. This coworker was treating OP like an idoit. If OP does not fight back, OP will be treated like a doormat by this coworker and likely by other coworkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feel sorry for your org and coworkers. People like you poison the organization

That’s a wrong and excessive judgment for what OP described as their job expectations.

[Anonymous]

Who are you freaks who check and respond to your work email over the weekend??? What is wrong iweth you?

My boss texted me today, but he texted me to tell me he'd be teleworking tomorrow and I should too.

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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

LOL. Try working in a Fire Depsrtment. It's so hard typing with those big gloves on all the time.

[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.

How incredibly sexist of you to see "facilities manager" and assume OP is male. WTF is wrong with you?

[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.

How incredibly sexist of you to see "facilities manager" and assume OP is male. WTF is wrong with you?

Read the op. No man spent his day that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hanging up was beyond and I would indeed report it to HR.

OP said “essentially hung upon me” which is woman-speak for “I’m exaggerating”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP should defintely report this coworker to HR. How could a coworker say "How hard is it to look at your email?" and then hang up the phone? OP should not tolerate this. This coworker was treating OP like an idoit. If OP does not fight back, OP will be treated like a doormat by this coworker and likely by other coworkers.

I feel like the OP is just talking to herself in this thread...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hanging up was beyond and I would indeed report it to HR.

OP said “essentially hung upon me” which is woman-speak for “I’m exaggerating”

¥1. And the caller was “basically crying”. More woman speak

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP should defintely report this coworker to HR. How could a coworker say "How hard is it to look at your email?" and then hang up the phone? OP should not tolerate this. This coworker was treating OP like an idoit. If OP does not fight back, OP will be treated like a doormat by this coworker and likely by other coworkers.

I feel like the OP is just talking to herself in this thread...

This. I’m shocked no one has called this out.

OP is immature and likely an unreliable narrator, the colleague was wrong, and half these snippy responses are from OP herself.

[Anonymous]

How incredibly sexist of you to see "facilities manager" and assume OP is male. WTF is wrong with you?

Have you ever heard of the "generic 'he'"? It has been part of the English language for centuries.