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Boss keeps texting me about ‘urgent’ work after hours and on weekends

I work in a 9-5 office role (mostly from home). My team have a Whatsapp group chat for touching base about sickness, if we’re running late, etc. It’s usually fine, but my manager has taken to texting us at really weird hours (10.30pm) because something is ‘urgent’, with the expectation someone will be happy to log on and deal with it. Sometimes she’ll message me directly if I don’t respond. Which I never do — I always say I was busy/asleep — but it infuriates me to have to receive these texts because I don’t want to think about work when I’m not working. She’s also done this when I’m on holiday leave. How do I politely tell her to piss off?


I work in a 9-5 office role (mostly from home). My team have a Whatsapp group chat for touching base about sickness, if we’re running late, etc. It’s usually fine, but my manager has taken to texting us at really weird hours (10.30pm) because something is ‘urgent’, with the expectation someone will be happy to log on and deal with it. Sometimes she’ll message me directly if I don’t respond. Which I never do — I always say I was busy/asleep — but it infuriates me to have to receive these texts because I don’t want to think about work when I’m not working. She’s also done this when I’m on holiday leave. How do I politely tell her to piss off?

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