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[quote=Anonymous]So, I'm sitting here in my front room. It's 11am on a rainy Sunday.

I'm reading the news, browsing recipes for a curry I'll make my family tonight during the snow. I've rested this weekend, hung a couple pictures that have been waiting for months, did some laundry, read a bunch about John Singleton Mosby and watched some olympics with my daughter.

Two hours ago my phone rang. ID said it was a colleague so I immediately thought it must be an emergency (I work in Facilities Mangement- think taking care of large buildings).

It wasn't. It was her basically crying that I didn't see an email sent Saturday morning by a client wanting an immediate answer. We don't work weekends unless its an emergency. This guys question was basically:

"Hey, about that appointment we have to do a campus walk on Thursday- anyway we could move it to Wednesday?"

I explained to my colleague that I didn't see it because I'm not looking for emails on a weekend and even if I had, I wouldn't have responded until 8 am Monday at the earliest. Because that is when I'm working and I have no desire to give clients the impression they can pepper me at any time and expect a response at 10 on a Saturday morning.

"Yeah, but how hard is it to look at your email?" was her response.

I told her that she was interrupting my Sunday and we can talk tomorrow. She got offended and esentially hung up on me.

What would you have said?

I want to check myself before I take this to HR.[/quote]

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