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Shiny_Rock
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Hi everyone,
Just a quick post to ask everyone''s opinion on something. I had been reading through the thread about Crackberry addictions and it got me to thinking about an email I received this morning... here''s the story....
Yesterday afternoon (Sunday) I received an email on by Blackberry (work related) asking a question about where to send some documentation that our office requires. She wanted to know if she could drop it by my office (I manage a regional field office) or if she needed to send it to our main office. I have a Blackberry because I AM the field office (all other employees are in our main office which is over 5 hours away) so when I am out of the office for meetings and that sort of thing I need to be reachable. My rule is that I do not respond to emails received after 5 during the weekdays or on the weekends. I respond to them first thing the next morning. I work hard during the time I''m at work and I refuse to work 24 hours a day. My bosses have no problem with this and if something seems to be a special request (or an emergency) I do respond if I need to (but those occasions are rare).
This morning I emailed the person back and explained that the documentation should be mailed directly to our main office. I emailed her at 8:15 this morning. Shortly after I received a response saying something along the lines of "since you did not respond promptly to my email I have already mailed the information".
I haven''t responded back to her. Should I apologize to her? Do I need to rethink my "no response till the next day" policy?
BTW... there were instructions with the information she needed to send in that told her where to send it.
Just a quick post to ask everyone''s opinion on something. I had been reading through the thread about Crackberry addictions and it got me to thinking about an email I received this morning... here''s the story....
Yesterday afternoon (Sunday) I received an email on by Blackberry (work related) asking a question about where to send some documentation that our office requires. She wanted to know if she could drop it by my office (I manage a regional field office) or if she needed to send it to our main office. I have a Blackberry because I AM the field office (all other employees are in our main office which is over 5 hours away) so when I am out of the office for meetings and that sort of thing I need to be reachable. My rule is that I do not respond to emails received after 5 during the weekdays or on the weekends. I respond to them first thing the next morning. I work hard during the time I''m at work and I refuse to work 24 hours a day. My bosses have no problem with this and if something seems to be a special request (or an emergency) I do respond if I need to (but those occasions are rare).
This morning I emailed the person back and explained that the documentation should be mailed directly to our main office. I emailed her at 8:15 this morning. Shortly after I received a response saying something along the lines of "since you did not respond promptly to my email I have already mailed the information".
I haven''t responded back to her. Should I apologize to her? Do I need to rethink my "no response till the next day" policy?
BTW... there were instructions with the information she needed to send in that told her where to send it.