In my experience, Friday is the day of “fake emergencies.” Someone always decides their project is suddenly urgent at 2pm… right when I’m already halfway clocked out mentally. Does this happen frequently with you?

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Key is to ignore it till 4:45, and then reply with a good spread of questions…

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Ignore it. I work from home on Fridays and I’m usually tipsy by 2pm, so everything will have to wait until Monday.

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Ignore it. Any briefs in after 12pm are a next day job.

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I got briefed on something at 4 pm today that’s due Monday.

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Sounds like a typical Friday with my account

Yep. Especially when I’ve not been given any notice that the project exists beforehand

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As simple as, “great, I’ll get started on this on Monday, my day is already booked up.”

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Clients aren’t looking at this over the weekend, unless they’re psychos so let it wait until Monday.

likesmart

Yet they still demand it by Friday in my experience

You sound inexperienced.

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How so? This seems to be a relatable topic for many

I have an account person who pulls a 4 pm or 5 pm Friday email so often that I’ve given her the nickname 5 o clock _____. And it’s been sticking with other people.

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The clients I was on would do this at around 4PM on a Friday lol

I’ve been saying that I don’t have time to address it until Monday.

No, and it should not happen.

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