Burnt popcorn gif goes here. 
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I just found my xmas gift from my boss. It is 4 cans of beer (from a brewery that I’ve never had). He too is a Beer Advocate. Annoying thing is it came in a 6-pack plastic holder. Whereiz the other 2 beers Mr boss man! 
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The link response specified it was okay for a college student, not managers. It’s not unusual to quickly check email to avoid being blindsided by a shitstorm. Routine messages sent off hours blurs the work life balance. There’s a reason to have the option of scheduling send for email.
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I wish I had that option.
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I was driving down a busy street when I saw a 
walking along the curb!!! 
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Not managers to direct reports. But she didn’t say it was only okay for college students, and she did say the whole point of email is that you can send it when convenient. And the people the student is emailing are employees at their jobs, even though the student is not a coworker of theirs. Technically they could also complain that she’s clogging their inboxes during non-work hours for non-urgent items.
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The tax man needs his beer too.
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Thoughts and prayers.
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:squintyeyes:
From the article “there are some cases where the optics of late-night emailing matter, like if you’re a manager emailing your team (because they may conclude you expect early-morning responses or that you [expect them to work similar hours]), or if you’re emailing job applicants (because they might take that as a bad signal about your work culture). But you’re a college student, not a manager. You’re fine.
(I’m assuming it’s not the people you’re emailing who are telling you it’s rude! If the feedback is coming from them, that changes things… you should pay attention to their preferences.) “
You asked what’s wrong with sending after hours email but have discarded people’s responses. I’ll give some people grace if their email servers don’t support scheduled send but the fact that MS Outlook has that as a feature should be a clue that it’s not just a preference for a couple of random people. To recap, this is why one should use scheduled send for during business hours instead of after hours messaging for non-urgent or time sensitive reasons:
- For newer employees, it signals a culture of after hours work.
- For those who’ve blurred the lines between work and home during the pandemic, this serves to continue that blurred line.
- For those who do check in after hours for whatever reason, you’re dragging their attention away from their off time, because they still need to look at your message to determine importance.
Between the pandemic and as parent with a spouse who often works non traditional hours, I understand working after hours, but I’ve been trying to separate work from off time and be more present for my family, and in that I’m more cognizant of when I message coworkers to be respectful of their off time. Schedule send makes that more convenient than leaving emails in my drafts folder to click to send during business hours.
As a side note, before the ability to schedule send, I appreciated one coworker who would specify in after hours emails that they were sending it at that time for their convenience and didn’t expect it to be read until the next business day. It still pulled my attention away but I didn’t have to guess how urgent they perceived it to be.
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I hope for your sake that Santa brings it before next Christmas.
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Of course if someone tells me that they prefer me not to email them after business hours for non-urgent stuff, I won’t. But there was a recent period where I was unaware of the schedule send capability. I hope no one was getting annoyed at me for sending emails at, say, 10 PM, because I assumed (based on stuff like the article I pointed to) that no one would care.
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My last position basically demanded close to 24/7 availability. Had some stupid emails/texts on weekends and holidays. I am not talking about a legit emergency that came up then, which happens and is more acceptable for off hours communication. It sucked, and led to my early retirement
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I signed up for Peacock. Only when I typed in my email address, my phone autocorrected my email address from firstmlast@gmail.com to firstlast@gmail.com. I didn’t notice.
Firstlast is not my email address and it’s already taken, so I can’t sign up for that email address. So I canceled this month and will sign up again in another month after this month ends.
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Gave my oldest son a new iPad mini 6 on Sunday, for Christmas
Only took him until Friday to break the charging port by trying to shove the lightning charger in (it takes a usb-c).
We are making him pay for the repair, and it’s going to wipe out all of his savings from recent Christmas gifts, and the amount we force him to save each week for big purchases (about $20 a month). So at least there’s a life experience to be gained. And he didn’t throw a fit when we told him that was the only option for him. I was pretty proud of how he handled it, tbh.
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We just got invited to my spouse’s bestie for New Year’s. I’m sociable with their husband because I have to be, but he’s a real piece of work. I do not want to go sit in his house for hours. Do I have a choice? Not that i recall.
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I’m going through the double doors at Arby’s. I hold the door for the asshole behind me and he just lets it slam in the face of the elderly lady behind him. So as I’m walking through the next door he blazes right past me, so I hold the door for her, too, and get a big “thank you “ (insightful signal?(probably not as she was with her husband)) . Then asshole guy runs to his big ass ford f150 and attempts to back up quickly but cannot as elderly couple are walking /ambling in the middle of the parking lot. Don’t be an asshole to the person walking behind you.
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can lose the last 6 words
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Still coughing and slight temp again. Probably would have been higher but I took ibuprofen for my sore hip a few hours ago.
My kids are supposed to come over for our postponed Christmas holiday. I’ll let them decide whether to come. I could just stay in my room.
I have been sick since Nov 17.
Any guesses as to whether I’ll be able to go to the office Tues?
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“Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest”
Dick Clark has been dead for 11 years now. (12 in April.) This is like having the Bing Crosby Merry Olde Christmas With Mariah Carey, and ignoring that Crosby has been dead since 1977.
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