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utee94

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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2021, 01:26:56 PM »
Quote from: ELA on January 13, 2021, 01:08:22 PM
That's what I explained to my wife.  You know how I can also put the kids on the bus in the morning and get into the office a little late, or work from home on days I have a Dr. appt.  This is the flip side to that.
Yup.

And since my wife is a physical therapist, her hours aren't flexible at all.  She can't just ditch out on her patients.  So I end up managing pretty much 100% of the kid appointments, soccer practices, etc.

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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2021, 01:28:28 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on January 13, 2021, 01:19:27 PM
the only time after hours issues really bother me is when I'm on the golf course or during a Husker game

especially if I'm attending a Husker game

Luckily, although I work pretty much every night and most weekends, I can do it on my own terms.  I don't ever have someone bothering me when I'm out on the lake or at a football game or whatever.  

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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2021, 01:30:10 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 13, 2021, 01:26:56 PM
Yup.

And since my wife is a physical therapist, her hours aren't flexible at all.  She can't just ditch out on her patients.  So I end up managing pretty much 100% of the kid appointments, soccer practices, etc.


Wife is a teacher, so same deal, 9 months a year.  Granted that helps with some afternoon stuff for the kids
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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2021, 01:56:25 PM »
My clients and staff are trained to not bug me after hours. They know I won't respond, so they don't bother.
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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2021, 02:27:11 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 13, 2021, 01:56:25 PM
My clients and staff are trained to not bug me after hours. They know I won't respond, so they don't bother.
see what training does

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« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2021, 02:45:45 PM »
Lucky Bastages,wish we'd get the same treatment 
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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2021, 02:46:56 PM »
I've had a work phone since probably 2005? Man, I've seen some evolution in the smartphone marked during that time!

For me it's more that the company expects me to travel, and to visit customers, and it's simply impossible to function without a smartphone in the modern era in that environment. 

I like that it gives me a lot more flexibility. I'm about to go take my lunch hour at the driving range (which might extend a little beyond an "hour" lol) but I know that if there's something critical I'll know about it. My job isn't really "9 to 5" in the sense that I don't have flexibility. 

The downside is that when something comes up that requires after-hours work, I may have to deal with it. Over Thanksgiving weekend we had a critical situation at a customer and while I wasn't working hours upon hours every day, I was responding to phone calls and emails for that issue every single day of the weekend. I had to call my VP and update him on status between the 9th green and 10th tee on Sunday morning that day...

I do my best to balance it. If something comes in after hours but isn't urgent, it waits until the morning. With WFH and a dog that wakes me up early for walks, I start my work day pretty early in the morning anyway, so if I don't get to your email until 7:40 AM PT, you're just going to have to deal with it. 
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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2021, 02:53:53 PM »
I've had a work phone since 1992. They were pretty heavy back then.

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« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2021, 02:55:42 PM »
its amazing how unurgent things really are and can wait until morning

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« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2021, 02:59:37 PM »
My company does a pretty good job of respecting life/work balance.

I also went to some "time management/efficiency training" that my boss scheduled for me with a specialty consulting firm, and they had some interesting statistics on how damaging responding to emails immediately, can be.  It takes you out of your workflow zone, and it can take a significant amount of time to get back into it, sometimes between 1 and 5 minutes.  Add that up over the course of a day, and that's some serious damage to productivity.

Their recommended best practice was to turn off all email/text alerts and to only answer emails twice per day, and let your boss and peers know that's your method.  I told my boss this, and he was open to it.  Since then he's adopted similar practices.  But I'm not directly customer-facing so it's a little easier to enable.
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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #24 on: January 13, 2021, 03:08:24 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on January 13, 2021, 02:55:42 PM
its amazing how unurgent things really are and can wait until morning


even more amazing that some folks that really should the difference between urgent and nonurgent are clueless about this
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Re: OT: Work Phones
« Reply #25 on: January 13, 2021, 03:08:52 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 13, 2021, 02:53:53 PM
I've had a work phone since 1992. They were pretty heavy back then.


mine was 1997 and came in a bag
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« Reply #26 on: January 13, 2021, 03:21:21 PM »
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« Reply #27 on: January 13, 2021, 03:32:57 PM »
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