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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My guess is something urgent came up and your manager‘s private life and wanted to make sure it was going to work out as far as moving your meeting. If they don’t normally act like this, in your shoes, I would give the Grace I’m assuming some kind of  extraordinary circumstance.

You sound like you really hate your manager, and you also sound a little petty because it would’ve taken very little for you to respond to the message once you saw it. I don’t understand why you were playing games about that.[/quote]

Ehh, I think you're missing the point. It's about the interruption, not how little effort it takes to text back. It's also about boundaries and precedents. What's next? Expectation to answer work texts 7 days a week 365 days a year?

Do you call people at 2 am? I bet not. You don't because it's rude, not because it's 'hard' for the person youre calling to pick up the phone.[/quote]

Ehh, I’m not missing the point. I said if they don’t normally act like this, I’d give this instance some grace. Sometimes people react very strangely when something bad suddenly comes up in their personal lives. Maybe this was that. I don’t see an inevitable jump from this to expecting 24/7 availability. I agree OP should definitely normally maintain boundaries.

But OP refers to her manager as a “loser,” which makes me think there’s an existing dislike on OP’s part. [/quote]

OP here. My manager is a loser. They have no life. They have no hobbies. They have no partner. They have no kids. They routinely stay past 7 or 8 "because somebody has to get this all done!"

I explain to her that if work is causing her to stay for 15 hours a week extra, she is overloaded, not a martyr. I'm 51; my days of caring about my employer more than myself or my family are looooooooong over.

Again, we are not curing cancer. For purposes of this discussion, imagine us as manufacturers of toilet paper roll tubes. Life will go on if the entire team stays home for two weeks. It mght be hard for people in DC with an over inflated idea of their work's importance but we are not doing God's work or stopping sex trafficking. We make disposable household goods.

She makes loud passive aggressive comments about people 'leaving at the exact stroke of 5pm.' like all the time. She is clueless on how no one likes her.[/quote]

I'm sure you spent literal hours of more time conferring and gossiping with your colleagues about this nothingburger situation than it would have taken you to just respond. And then you took the time to make this post and engage with it again and again. Seriously, who's the loser? [/quote]

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