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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The OP works a job, facilities management, where “they don’t work weekends unless it’s an emergency”. Their phone rings on a Sunday. They answer it because it might be an emergency which implies that they need to somewhat monitor their job in case there IS an emergency.

The coworker described the situation and it was not an emergency. The OP was fine saying as such and that they could respond on Monday. There should be a conversation with the employee to describe what an emergency is or isn’t but that should be end of it.

OP is blowing this way out of proportion. [/quote]

Op is NOT blowing this way out of proportion. The coworker said "how hard is it to look at your email?"  This is very offensive and crossed the boundary.  No coworkers should treat me like this.  This cowork who are irrational will likely say bad things behind OP's back.  OP should absolutely report this to HR to have a record to protect herself.  Talking to supervisor may not be a good idea because supervisors almost always want you to work more.[/quote]

Yes OP, you are blowing this out of proportion.  Part of your job is to be available for emergencies if they happen on weekends and you have to monitor that. You just didn’t like your co-worker bluntly reminding you to do your job. 
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It was literally the coworker's job to be on call.OP picked up thinking the on-call person was notifying her of an emergency. There was no emergency, so the coworker was wrong. The coworker's job isn't to monitor OP's random emails and make sure they are responded to.[/quote]

It doesn’t matter if coworker was wrong. They followed the process and called OP. It’s OPs responsibility to be available in emergencies. OP needs to be available via different modes of communication as that is their job.

On Monday, the coworker can be instructed on what is or isn’t an emergency. [/quote]

Agreed.

OP definitely needs to go to HR because the coworker getting paid to handle emergencies does not understand what an emergency is. Calling everyone for stupid minutiae  when they’re off the clock is a waste of company resources.

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100%. They are also denigrating any response to an actual emergency by having everyone think a stupid email with a question about rescheduling an appoitment warrants a call. If everything is an emergecy, nothing is an emergency.

The phone holder is either incredibly stupid and new or they are trying to set OP to take a fall for something. Padding the complaint log to justify further action.[/quote]

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