Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Well, the eclipsy bit was very, very subtle. If I hadn't known it was happening, I wouldn't have realised, as it was only a penumbral eclipse and not the full umbral works! So don't worry about missing it!

It was quite pretty when it was rising, though, all big and orangey! (I had to walk right round the corner to see it though, through a gap in the houses!

I only had to open my front door and take one step out - and that only to get a clearer view than through glass and net curtains

chris_m

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So when work inevitably emails me both at midnight tonight and again at 6 am tomorrow I shall also indulge my passive-aggressive inner child and not respond until Monday morning.

Quite right too - someone else's lack of planning does not constitute your emergency.

Nothing wrong with reading the emails of course - if you choose and provided they don't automatically generate a read receipt.

I often did that much so I knew what was coming on Monday morning, I even occasionally bashed out a reply, but I never sent it until Monday.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

chris_m wrote: »

Quite right too - someone else's lack of planning does not constitute your emergency.

Nothing wrong with reading the emails of course - if you choose and provided they don't automatically generate a read receipt.

I often did that much so I knew what was coming on Monday morning, I even occasionally bashed out a reply, but I never sent it until Monday.

I was half joking when I typed that originally but looked this morning and funnily enough emails came through at 1am and 7am.

I've now read them and they were important, but not important enough to be worrying about it after midnight on a weekend.

To be fair those ones don't bother me much and I can usually mentally file them away for Monday responses - it's the Sunday evening emails that annoy me - it's now pretty widespread in our organisation with people trying to get ahead of relatively routine matters for the next weeks business and it always feels like the weekend is getting cut short. It's also harder to ignore for me anyway - maybe psychologically because it's so close to Monday.

Despite being what many people would class as a bit of a workaholic, I do sometimes wonder if this whole 24/7 work communication culture, following the mass adoption of the technology that enables it, has gone a bit far....

Doozergirl

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I was half joking when I typed that originally but looked this morning and funnily enough emails came through at 1am and 7am.

Despite being what many people would class as a bit of a workaholic, I do sometimes wonder if this whole 24/7 work communication culture thing following the mass adoption of technology that enables it has gone a bit far.

No question at all.

Can't get peace at night or on holiday.

We once had a text from a client at 9.45 on a Sunday night. We were both asleep for some reason. I replied to it, after some consideration, and was admonished for texting them at an inappropriate time.

Most recent client will think nothing of sending facebook messages about work to my personal account after midnight.

Or interpreting being available via email for "problems" whilst 7500kms away as being able to phone at 3am Canada time to request extra plug sockets. No one was even planned to be on site in that time and they had been given someone else's contact number as well. Problems meant emergencies.

PasturesNew

Had a nice cooked brekkie

2 bits of toast
whole can of tomatoes
3 small eggs, scrambled
8 cocktail sausages, halved
Several splashes of brown sauce.

Black coffee.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Doozergirl wrote: »

No question at all.

Can't get peace at night or on holiday.

I work in an industry that's always had long hours and an expectation of availability 24/7 in case of emergencies - so my whole career I've been used to that and it doesn't bother me.

And I'll happily join the odd urgent conference call or pick up on emergency work emails on holiday as well.

Well OK, perhaps not quite 'happily', but I don't really resent it as it can actually make your life easier in the long run to stay relatively on top of things while you're away.

But it's the increasing amount of relatively routine stuff coming through late at night or weekends that I find annoying.

Pyxis

Just reading about getting work emails at the weekend makes me feel stressed!

It never happened to me, as I stopped just before e-communication became pretty much mandatory in my line.

I don't know which would be worse: not reading/answering emails but knowing they are there, and so fretting away at the back of my mind as to what they were about, or reading them and then having to decide whether to leave them or act on them!

Either way, it would defeat the object of the weekend!

I have to calm down now! I feel all jittery!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

Had a nice cooked brekkie

2 bits of toast
whole can of tomatoes
3 small eggs, scrambled
8 cocktail sausages, halved
Several splashes of brown sauce.

Black coffee.

That's a stellar idea PN - I may go and cook breakfast for Mrs McT before I awake her from her (probably slightly hungover) lie in.

Pyxis

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

That's a stellar idea PN - I may go and cook breakfast for Mrs McT before I awake her from her (probably slightly hungover) lie in.

Aaaargh! I thought I'd successfully avoided PN's breakfast post, and the you repeated it!


(I'm on a 5:2 fast day! :rotfl:)

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Pyxis wrote: »

Aaaargh! I thought I'd successfully avoided PN's breakfast post, and the you repeated it!


(I'm on a 5:2 fast day! :rotfl:)

Oooops, sorry.

I'll try not to let the aroma of scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon and hash browns waft your way then....:p