It’s courteous for people knowing you’re coming back to catch you up. Takes them 5 minutes each.
“Hey there was a whole thread this weekend about x y z. X and y are good. But instead of checking your stuff all morning, the takeaway is that Z needs to be done by 1:30 today.”

Anonymous wrote:Read the boss's emails first. This is Work 101.

Sounds like that's exactly what the OP did.

Oh well. We're all just rats in a maze until we can be replaced by AI agents.

I've had some BS like this over the years and just learned to shrug it off after a while. The boss was probably pissed about something else and took it out on you.
After my 40th birthday and some life events I've become more disciplined about my work boundaries. I don't give out my real phone number; work folk and customers get a virtual number that ports to my phone but I can turn it off for nights, weekends and vacations. My work phone number and email have detailed out of office messages that make it clear I'm not looking at anything until I'm back on the clock.

That's a lot of emails in one day. All actionable? J would have started with ones from boss and any actionable ones and then work backwards. I was gone for 2 weeks with and OOO pointing people in specific directions to solve any issue (including my boss) and came back to about 20 critical emails. And everything and everyone survived.

I would figure out a way to politely ask if you missed something. Just because boss is a moron doesn't mean you have to absorb his passive aggression.

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Anonymous wrote:well, as you say, you only took the job for WFH flexibility and health care, so you obviously don't give a shit about the job itself and it shows.

Team Boss

Lol. Wait til you find out that most people take jobs because they need money.

+1

Or wait until the person you depend on up and quits because you were too impatient to let an employee with impeccable attendance have a long weekend once a year. You are terrible.

Read the boss's emails first. This is Work 101.

Does your mail have filters. Set one for your boss to flag his so you see them.

You don't get to be offended by receiving email while you're out. And you should figure out how to get more efficient at "clearing" email - how to skim though and figure out what you actually need to respond to vs. what is just noise/CCs or something that can wait.

You should let your boss know to text you or ping you if there is something time-sensitive and you don't plan on checking email. They might have assumed you would pop in to check, as some people do that just to keep tabs on what's going on.

Anonymous wrote:well, as you say, you only took the job for WFH flexibility and health care, so you obviously don't give a shit about the job itself and it shows.

Team Boss

Lol. Wait til you find out that most people take jobs because they need money.

Anonymous wrote:well, as you say, you only took the job for WFH flexibility and health care, so you obviously don't give a shit about the job itself and it shows.

Team Boss

Responding the very morning of the next business day is not not giving a shit. You’re a loser.

well, as you say, you only took the job for WFH flexibility and health care, so you obviously don't give a shit about the job itself and it shows.

Team Boss

Email doesn’t stop when you are out.

But you don’t need to respond right away. You control when you check email and respond.

If it’s urgent, your boss should call or text or Teams you.

It’s unreasonable for anyone to expect you to check email in real time when you are out of the office.

But it’s also unreasonable for you to expect the world to stand still and avoid sending emails. It’s fine to email someone even if they see your OOO reply. They can wait for your response.

Did you have an OOO reply?

Anonymous wrote:I took Friday off. First PTO day off in 8.5 months. A single day. With a months' notice. Yesterday was a holiday.

I came in this morning to 347 emails. Those took me until 1 to clear.

Boss emailed at noon on Friday. I saw it today at 9:34. I replied as soon as I saw it.

At 2 pm today he complained about 'a lack of responsiveness.'

I really only took this job 4 years ago because it came with WFH flexibility and health care better than my spouses but now the 'perks' are far outweighed by the chafes and my spouse is now earning 75K a year more.

So I will coast and slack until I get fired.

Just an FYI for all your small SBOs that think you own your staff.

That’s terrible. People need to get a serious grip.

I took Friday off. First PTO day off in 8.5 months. A single day. With a months' notice. Yesterday was a holiday.

I came in this morning to 347 emails. Those took me until 1 to clear.

Boss emailed at noon on Friday. I saw it today at 9:34. I replied as soon as I saw it.

At 2 pm today he complained about 'a lack of responsiveness.'

I really only took this job 4 years ago because it came with WFH flexibility and health care better than my spouses but now the 'perks' are far outweighed by the chafes and my spouse is now earning 75K a year more.

So I will coast and slack until I get fired.

Just an FYI for all your small SBOs that think you own your staff.