It’s my birthday. For nearly three years I’ve worked at a small (extremely extroverted) nonprofit with traditional 8-5 hours and we’ve been working from home for the last two years.
At 7 p.m. today my boss sent me and a few others a text message informing us that she will be at a dentist appointment tomorrow morning. This isn’t unusual. She tends to inform everyone whenever she leaves her desk for more than an hour, but it’s always via email. This is the first time she has sent out a text message about an appointment before.
I’m not surprised though. Whenever there’s any kind of special occasion in my life she likes to find an excuse to send a text message.
When I took off two days before Christmas she text that there was an emergency the director wanted solved. I ignored her and a few hour later she text that it could wait until Monday. The same goes with my vacations. She always comes up with some reason to text me. Some non-emergency emergency.
I don’t even know what you would call this kind of behavior. Have you experienced it before?
And am I wrong to wait until 2 in the morning to respond with a happy teeth-brushing gif?