My boss is like that sometimes. I’d come down one Sunday morning with some kind of stomach issue. Turned on company laptop to message him that I won’t be coming in on Monday. Go to turn off the laptop again, and just as I do, there’s his message popping up wishing me speedy recovery.
Just glad he doesn’t expect that same kind of availability of me, because that can’t be a healthy work-/life-balance.
I use it to avoid messaging my coworkers late at night but also to simultaneously look like I AM working late even though I’m not.
I also use for my lazy coworkers. Asked the same questions, I’ve answered 9 times already? Answer him but set it to delay for increasingly longer time (I’m up to 4 days now). Then I can move on with my life not leaving him hanging forever.
I generally don’t do that. Once I’m off work, the laptop is shut and work profile on my phone is turned off. The second I step out of the building, I’m no longer having work-related conversations.
That’s not just personal work-life ethic, it’s the explicit policy my boss laid out. He just doesn’t stick to it himself.
My boss is like that sometimes. I’d come down one Sunday morning with some kind of stomach issue. Turned on company laptop to message him that I won’t be coming in on Monday. Go to turn off the laptop again, and just as I do, there’s his message popping up wishing me speedy recovery.
Just glad he doesn’t expect that same kind of availability of me, because that can’t be a healthy work-/life-balance.
LPT: you can schedule messages in advance.
Right click on send usually to program it
I use it to avoid messaging my coworkers late at night but also to simultaneously look like I AM working late even though I’m not.
I also use for my lazy coworkers. Asked the same questions, I’ve answered 9 times already? Answer him but set it to delay for increasingly longer time (I’m up to 4 days now). Then I can move on with my life not leaving him hanging forever.
I generally don’t do that. Once I’m off work, the laptop is shut and work profile on my phone is turned off. The second I step out of the building, I’m no longer having work-related conversations.
That’s not just personal work-life ethic, it’s the explicit policy my boss laid out. He just doesn’t stick to it himself.