People Are Sharing The Worst Work Emails They’ve Gotten In This Infuriating Twitter Thread (30 Tweets)

C'mon Marg, don't pretend you didn't know...

Oh yes-A clients inability to manage their time, does not constitute an emergency on my part

My client used to e-mail us at midnight on Saturdays with "URGENT ACTION REQUIRED" subjects. We work Mon-Fri 9-5

Email sent at 4.55pm; "can I collect it first thing in the morning?" Uhhh ... no.

Paid time and a half overtime?

Wise woman, after all he showed her what a douche he was.

Once I got an assignment, it was already completed and accepted by the customer, when he decided he wanted to change something. It was not a big deal, literally 15 minutes of work, so I did it aтв sent back to him. After 15 min he remembered he needed something else, once again, some little detail, so I did it again. My working day on Friday finished at 5 pm, so at 5:03 I turned off my laptop and left. I had a short vacation, so I returned only on Wednesday to find his email sent on Friday at 5:08 where he once again asked for some minor changes. If he had created a new ticket, his request could have been done in my absence, but he chose to send it to my work email which I didn't have the access to during my vacation.

Or, he called the job, they told him she was on vacation, he knew he screwed up, so he got his mama to write the email to cover his ass.

To all people: MOST BUSINESSES ARE OPEN MONDAY-FRIDAY FROM 9-5. WHEN THE BUSINESS IS CLOSED, IT IS CLOSED. GETTING MAD WILL DO NOTHING, BUT PISS OFF THE COMPANY. That is my rant for today.

I usually have excellent service from small companies as well as large. The most recent one was a disappointment. Some of the mix up was my fault. However, 3 WEEKS to travel only 1/4 of the way across the US was a bit much. I confess to nagging after the 2nd week.

Years before I had Amazon Prime, I blanked on US Father's Day until very late on the Wed night before. I paid extra for two-day shipping--I figured, at best, it'd be there by Friday, at worst, it'd be there by Saturday (the holiday was Sunday). My father didn't get his package until Monday. I sent a polite email to Amazon asking them to refund what I'd paid for two-day shipping, since my father's package still showed up late. Amazon agreed, and refunded me the shipping costs.

As a freelance proofreader, I get these projects a lot. I turn them down because they are always such small projects, it isn't worth the time to make an invoice.

pretty accurate depiction of my boss.

I've had this type too - my reply was (on the Monday), sure you can have it today, right at the end of the day just a few moments from finishing time. A day isn't a few minutes long.

Sender of the email should be reported, this is not acceptable behaviour..

tbh in the US this would be normal. we work on weekends. we work on vacations. we stay up till one in the morning working. we work on paternity leave. we get fired if we don't.

Which when working from home I struggled with BADLY. Worked as a middle school secretary during pandemic shutdown, and we still operated with normal business hours. Because I was working from home, I was calling 80+ families on my personal phone. Cool, because they felt heard and appreciated on someone's personal phone. Shitty, because sometimes I worked until 8pm because I just... Was there. And people called me whenever their shift was off with questions about their kid and how school was gonna be, etc etc....

Parents think this of teachers even when we aren't working from home. I get message on the app at every hour.

Hear hear. My boss always skyped me to do things a few minutes before end of working hours or sometime even after, while we work from home. I mean, maybe put it in email with the deadline?

"A lack of organisation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part". Words to live by.

My colleague tended to reply that "deadlines only get serious when the bodies start to pile up", but maybe he wasn't the best business management guru.

I only answer calls from work on weekends. It's harder for someone to prove something is urgent when they are not hiding behind the keyboard

Exactly. The kind version of stfu

Just tell them upfront it is not ok behavior. No need to get frustrated, let them be the ones walking through a wall.

One of our customers (once upon a time they used to be a bookshop) has a plant in Las Vegas, Nevada. We are in Germany. By now, I explained the concept of time zones to three of their managers. "Yes Chad, it's fantastic that you mailed me your question first thing in the morning and no, we aren't rude when we don't reply within the hour. You are 9 hours behind!!!!!!!"

When they do s**t like this, they go to the bottom of the pile.

Hey! Cut her some slack, maybe she doesn't know to read.. only knows to write :-p

If you don't read or at least skim your received emails, you shouldn't be sending any

Or in the case of my company, there's a few of us that support our software and we can't even turn on OOO messages, otherwise it breaks the ticketing system (spams replies every few seconds). That's always a fun one...

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...but did that email have an alternative option for them to email? someone else to deal with their issue while you were away? Life continues for the customer as well, and why should they be inconvenienced by someone on vacation

This I understand a little less, I don't know what sort of college you work at, but students are expected to study, make decisions and be thinking about university on weekends, why shouldn't there be advice for them on weekends? Why doesn't the college employ someone to be available on weekends.

Send an email at 11:59 p.m. on Friday. Send an email two minutes later - Hey I emailed you last week. Very unprofessional of you not to reply.

Not a bad idea!

Now there's a plan I can get behind!

Move the email to spam box and mark the sender as spam.

I don't return phone calls that come through after working hours or over weekends. If it's so urgent, they can call back or send an email.

What the actual.

One thing I wish Facebook would do with is send reminders. I manage my work's Facebook page too, and if someone messages on the weekend or after hours, they get sent a message saying we'll respond during business hours, but then by the time I get into the office the next morning, I've forgotten.

That being said, they should consider getting someone who follows the facebook stuff over the weekend. Fast replies help a company's facebook standing

Same industry as OP...same thing happened to me all the time. That, plus being told at the end of a 4 week project "oh by the way we need 3 other language versions of this 140 page book", expected to have them all finished in the same timeframe while getting blamed for typos in a language I couldn't even read (literally all I did was copy and paste what was provided).

this is the exact opposite of common curtesy. common curtesy is not writing work requests out of business hours

My old boss used to text me questions about patients during the weekend, while I was home, with no access to patients' charts. I didn't get paid for weekend work, so don't bother me on the weekends.

I used to work for a US company, but I was based in the UK, they would always schedule a Friday afternoon meeting for 12 P.M. , so they could chill afterward, they couldn't understand why I'd be like, "Yeah I'm outa here, as the UK is 5 hours ahead of you guys !"