I refuse to add company email to my personal phone. If there’s a true emergency I can be called on my cell to talk or come in or do whatever is needed.
It’s just ‘too easy’ otherwise to fall into the trap of checking and answering a few emails off hours which I’m not paid for and is MY time.
This morning I came into emails from different departments and a few going back and forth on Saturday and again on Sunday.
What is wrong with these people? None of it was urgent, all of it could have waited until Monday but was probably just so easy to take 2 mins and type from a phone on their couch, kids soccer field, or Starbucks but that’s NOT THE POINT.
Half my coworkers have company email on their personal phones and I can’t count how many times management has assumed I must have it too. Me leaving for the day only to come in the following morning to missed emails after hours asking me about urgencies. Emails after hours asking if someone can look into something and me always seeming like the one who ‘doesn’t step up’ and ‘help out’ when something comes up after hours.
No, I’m just of the belief that if something is a true emergency a call or text would come through. There is a big misconception of ‘nice to have’ vs ‘need to have’.
When a few of us give in, it sets an expectation standard for all of us.
One that encroaches on our own personal time, an expectation to be available outside of standard working hours.
…. And it’s bullsh*t.