Project week -1 and already getting 11pm Friday emails and Saturday emails all day from the client. RIP my WLB this summer.

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Train your clients.

If you respond before Monday, you're telling them that this is expected behavior.

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Put an OOO every Friday evening to Monday morning - stating your working hours. Clients are just clients not god’s memo that needs to be addressed asap! Look after self! ✌🏼

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Ignore them or move to another engagement. Set boundaries or leave, basically.

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Lol, tell them to screw off

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How can one get Saturday or Friday 11pm emails if one closes the work laptop Friday at 5pm and one reopens it Monday morning?

😎

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Nip it in the bud on Monday! Bring it up

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Don't answer until Monday. Set boundaries early or kiss them goodbye.

I doubt anything you or the client is doing is saving any lives or making a significant impact to the world. You have a life, live it.

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Now is the time to set the expectation of what your working hours are and that when you’re off, unless it’s an emergency like production systems are down, then you’re off and not going to respond to emails.

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Protip: Don't check email on weekends unless it has been prearranged that you need to be on call.

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