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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

NP and this response to the PP is off.
The app gave a perfectly reasonable response on how to handle and reinforce boundaries.
Email is never an appropriate medium to communicate about an emergency.
A true emergency 🚨 requires a phone call (not even a voicemail but a true phone call where you actuslly reach and speak to the person on the other end of the phone). One cannot and should not assume an “emergency” message was received.
OP answered phone call with expectation that a colleague would not be trying to reach her by phone on the weekend unless it was an emergency. It was not.
OP’s response was reasonable and the “how hard is it to answer email?” was unnecessary, but could be met with a calm explanation of “it’s not that it’s difficult to check email, it’s just that checking work email on the weekend is something I choose not to do since it is during non-work hours. But I’ll be happy to address this during work hours on Monday. And as you can see, I’m also available by phone if someone needs to reach me for a true emergency.”
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