I know this sounds nuts to everyone - and I'm sure I'm coming off as a slacker or a whiner or both. but I feel like I'm trying to gracefully exit a really unhealthy work situation (10 pm, seriously? To passively schedule a meeting?) slowly so that they have time to transition (and yeah, to cut myself some financial slack too), and the fact that they have basically shifted the crazy from my work email to my personal email accounts is making me nuts. It is worse because I am friends with these people and care about them - and also that I just used my last cluestick on Raq's people.
no, you are not being a slacker or a whiner. It is not unreasonable to expect that your office use the established method of communication for you. If I were you, I would not acknowledge emails or calls to personal emails or phones.
They should use only your work email. Stock response: all work should be sent to Sox@workemail.com
nothing more because otherwise you will never be part-time
I wouldn't even acknowledge it. They know damn well that it's your personal email and you wouldn't answer a work email. it's their way of trying to make you work when you aren't supposed to.
Sox, that's infuriating. I agree with the wise Buffistas above--either reply with the one line Beth suggested or don't reply at all.
Speaking of infuriating...Raq, I am dumbfounded. I am livid on your behalf. Seriously? I mean...SERIOUSLY? Who ARE these people?
You could create a boilerplate "away" message to cut and paste into each email from work.
I wonder if gmail filters can be set to autorespond to any email from @workemail.com...
Speaking of infuriating...Raq, I am dumbfounded. I am livid on your behalf. Seriously? I mean...SERIOUSLY? Who ARE these people?
My first thought was "aliens!' but even aliens would have a better sense of propriety.
I am trying to decide who to vote for for county commissioner. As far as I can tell, the combined IQs of the people running for my district roughly equals a box of rocks. We have Viola “Unhappy Taxpayer” Davis, whose qualifications are apparently that she's spent the last six years showing up at commission meetings and annoying people. Here's one of her proposals: "I have a vision of DeKalb County being the ‘Branson Missouri’ of the South as an economic initiative of the future." We have another woman who keeps implying that she has been endorsed by Obama. We have the guy who says he doesn't know of any zoning issues, which suggests he's spent the last decade in a bomb shelter. (Okay, I was already not going to vote for him because he's for earlier bar closing. I make many of my political decisions based on alcohol.) Sigh.
I am also not voting for the Public Service Commission candidate who talks about "roving blackouts." It's "rolling blackouts," moron. The blackouts do not stroll about like minstrels.
{{{ND}}} I bet you are. Get some sleep, hon.
I somehow managed to do nothing in the unpacking realm tonight. I spent the better part of the evening updating the iPhone, banging my head on the desk to get it to reload music and videos, then browsing the apps that are available for it. And lastly, playing with them! I did manage to fill out the direct deposit slip to make payday easier! But nothing in the house. :: sigh ::
