Wouldn't reply to it mate..Very interesting reading this thread. Tell me, is it now normal in the UK to receive emails (of any tenor) from a work colleague or boss at 11 pm on a Saturday evening these days?
For me, it would be completely and utterly out of order.
I don't have an issue receiving an email any time of the day. It won't be read though until I'm in work......Very interesting reading this thread. Tell me, is it now normal in the UK to receive emails (of any tenor) from a work colleague or boss at 11 pm on a Saturday evening these days?
For me, it would be completely and utterly out of order.
Assuming you are working a 9 to 5 Mon to Fri job of course.Wouldn't reply to it mate..
If it gets brought up in conversation, make it very clear that you'll continue to ignore emails which are received in unsociable hours.
These days you can schedule an email to be sent at 8am on a Monday morning, there really is no excuse to be sending anything that hits someone's inbox over the weekend.
Well if you weren't, you probably wouldn't be too upset about someone emailing you outside of those hours?Assuming you are working a 9 to 5 Mon to Fri job of course.
Very interesting reading this thread. Tell me, is it now normal in the UK to receive emails (of any tenor) from a work colleague or boss at 11 pm on a Saturday evening these days?
For me, it would be completely and utterly out of order.
I think this should be renamed "Quitting work and working the required notice period" :o)
Good luck in whatever you do next blue.
I work a 9 - 5 office job in senior management. I will sometimes work outside of those hours either in the office or from home. That's my choice but there is an expectation that I will work if needed. I quite regularly come in to emails from the night before or early that day from customers/suppliers so it is a very normal thing to do a bit extra.I wouldn’t say it’s “normal” across the spectrum of all jobs but for some industries there is an unspoken expectation that you are always contactable. Management Consulting is one of those. I get emails at that time (and later) literally every day.
You can of course choose not to be online/contactable, but that will get you unofficially marked as “career limited”. As in you will never get above average ratings and will be passed over for promotions. Pair that with the fact a lot of consultancies have an “up or out” policy (basically meaning that if you don’t get promoted in the expected time frames you get the elbow) and you can see how you’re effectively coerced into these behaviours. You have two choices… either work for a company like that - you get well paid but have to accept the unwritten “rules”… or just don’t bother and work somewhere with a more structured work pattern.
For the record I didn’t justify his email with a response. I haven’t responded to it since. My response was my notice.
I wouldn’t say it’s “normal” across the spectrum of all jobs but for some industries there is an unspoken expectation that you are always contactable. Management Consulting is one of those. I get emails at that time (and later) literally every day.
You can of course choose not to be online/contactable, but that will get you unofficially marked as “career limited”. As in you will never get above average ratings and will be passed over for promotions. Pair that with the fact a lot of consultancies have an “up or out” policy (basically meaning that if you don’t get promoted in the expected time frames you get the elbow) and you can see how you’re effectively coerced into these behaviours. You have two choices… either work for a company like that - you get well paid but have to accept the unwritten “rules”… or just don’t bother and work somewhere with a more structured work pattern.
For the record I didn’t justify his email with a response. I haven’t responded to it since. My response was my notice.
I work a 9 - 5 office job in senior management. I will sometimes work outside of those hours either in the office or from home. That's my choice but there is an expectation that I will work if needed. I quite regularly come in to emails from the night before or early that day from customers/suppliers so it is a very normal thing to do a bit extra.