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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's frustrating, OP.

I've learned that while I'm pouring my morning cup of coffee to quickly check my work calendar to see what meetings I have that day.  Doing that at 6am means I can see if anything popped up after I got offline the night before.  My boss is one who often works at 10pm so this could totally happen to me.  
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I can’t just adjust last minute though, since I have to drop off my daughter. If I had known even during the day yesterday, I could have made arrangements.[/quote]

I hear you but at least you could have declined the meeting rather than not knowing about it at all. [/quote]

Fair enough. I guess I now need to be one of those people who is checking email at all hours. So much for work-life balance![/quote]

Yes, thought it's give and take OP.

Do you take 5 min. here or there out of your work day to check on something that is not essential to your job?   (e.g., make a dr appt., take a quick call from spouse, friend, bring in a package from the front door).   Think of checking your work email on your own time as that 5 min. kind of trade-off, if you are thinking work-life balance.     I am not suggesting get on email and do assignments that arrive post work hours, but just a scan to catch something late, or maybe a colleague just needs a quick response to something they are in the midst of where you can add quick value.  Just a thought.

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Agree. Most pp’s here want to have professional jobs and make a commensurate salary, but want to be treated like hourly wage workers when it comes to work expectations. A [b]professional has more control over their work schedule, but they are also never truly “off.” [/b]

It takes 5 minutes (or less) to check email at the end of the day and in the am to see if anything urgent popped up. If the meeting was scheduled too late to allow you to rework your schedule, it’s fine to reply to that effect, but just not being aware is not a good look.

And referring to people who make well into 6 figures as “slaves” because they’re expected to check e-mail more than 8 hours a day is offensive. [/quote]

And there is the mentality people no longer buy. $160,000 is way, way too little money to never be off. [/quote]

Being “off” means you can’t take 5 minutes to check your email at the end of the day to see what’s come up for tomorrow?”  For someone making more than 3x the median wage? What people like you don’t get is that you need to work like you have the job you want. If you’re only doing the bare minimum with the job you have, I’m not giving you the opportunity for anything bigger. [b]That only works in the government (and I have to wonder how many of the respondents here are government types)[/b]. [/quote]

I thought the same thing. Have to wonder what responses would be like if this was SFUM or NYUM.

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Do you regularly check email past 9pm? Because that’s the situation here.[/quote]

YES.  I DO.  Most of us do!  Because it is a tradeoff for sure.  For example, my back is killing me.  I scheduled a massage for tomorrow at 4pm.  No one cares, I don't have any important meetings, but did I crank out a document randomly over the weekend because I couldn't sleep and I thought it'd be nice to get it to someone first thing Monday morning.

It's not like we tolerate bosses who berate us because hey, we were sleeping that one day at 8:30pm and missed an invite.  It's just I am on my phone a lot.  So if I see something come in that looks urgent, I'll just glance at it and triage if necessary.  Rarely do I actually need to open my computer or something.[/quote]

It’s 9am. For your 4pm meeting tomorrow, you gave well over 24 hours notice. There’s a big difference between that and giving 11 hours notice, which was the situation here. [/quote]

4pm massage, friend.  And yes, my masseuse is booked out pretty far.[/quote]

What does your massage have to do with anything?[/quote]

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