Work Email When On Vacation/weekends

I have an iphone from work. It has their email and messaging system installed. I'm listed as myself and also in a group labeled 'technicians'. I often get emails or messages overnight, on weekends and on vacations. I leave the phone on in case a worker is trying to contact me or if the office needs some info. Some users are always sending blanket messages to the technicians and all responses go to all technicians. If I delete a chain of emails, as soon as anyone responds later the whole chain comes back. I get annoyed of it, but mostly forget about it after it settles down.

 

Hi Dave,
I set an autoresponder at server level and still accept emails. My autoresponder says something similar to "Currently I am on annual leave and will only have sporadic access to emails. For any very urgent enquiries please contact ****** via this link ********.
For all other queries or correspondence, I will attend to these when I return to work on ******"
Doing this way I can still see my emails every day on my phone and I may respond to any important issues but if I don't then the autoresponder is my excuse.

Yep I still check my emails every day (usually two or three times)......maybe I am too much of a sticky beak

If I am already in discussion about some issue with somebody then I will still deal with it when I am on holiday as it is better to interrupt my holiday and have it done right rather than fixing up a mess when you are just coming back from a holiday and there are dozens of other things needing your attention plus an extra problem that could have been be fixed by a few minutes attention on your holiday. Probably this approach wouldn't suit everyone but I get up people and staff for not doing the right thing so I do have to set an example of doing the right thing to others as I don't want to be judged a hypocrite

 

Hehehe if I am in a group discussion and it is important but not critical I respond I may have been known to send a holiday pic of me sitting in a deck chair relaxing somewhere drinking a beer or glass of red and mentioning I am still enjoying my holiday and will respond to any issues on my return but please carry on discussing in my absence lolol

I like dealing personally with important things in my control because then if something goes wrong I will at least know everything possible was done so won't be left wondering would we have had a successful outcome if person X had only thought to do something a bit differently.

BTW I am writing from the new place in Pak tethered to my phone.....spent the day building my new custom computer room desk that is L shaped and built insitu and mounted to the walls.....it is now half finished.......BTW I have been meaning to write but so overloaded with things to do.....will catch up shortly

 

You know, it's not only mail or messages. How many times have you came up with answers to a situation when you were on your own time? I've often figured out stuff just 'cuz it was there rolling around in this melon. Or maybe I'm doing something similar on my own and figure how it can be applied to some project we have at work. Doing this same work since '92 so I couldn't begin to think of the amount of personal time spent reflecting on company business!