To be annoyed by being text wen on hols

[Beaverfeaver]

I left my job on Friday and start a new one in two weeks after a holiday.

I got a text from my old colleague at 9:30am to ask me to contact family member who includes my work email in round robin photos of their kids.

I was annoyed because:

A: I am on holiday
B: it was 9:30
C: I no longer work there
D: I have set an out of office so do not feel I need to be contacting people as they will find out as soon as they email
E: its one email so far, out of tons of junk ones I would get

Why did she feel the need to do this?
Am I being unreasonable?

I will be seeing my old work colleagues a after holiday for a leaving do and I am a bit pissed off about it.

If you don't want texts while on holiday turn your phone off

I don't think that's the point I'm getting at.

I am on holiday, I am not at a sanctuary, and I would still like family to be able to contact me if needed.

Likewise, I wouldn't mind being contacted by work if it was something important.

But never expected something so trivial to require contacting me

You could send an "out of office text"

I send these sometimes and you would be surprised how many people believe they are real.

"Sorry, Fanny is away at the moment and unable to respond to any texts. Normal texting will resume on 02/12/2013. Thank you for your understanding."

Sorted.

Good idea Fanny!

Like that :)

Why did you give your family member your work email address? Your colleague was probably pissed off at having to sort through your personal emails among the work ones.

I don't think it's a huge issue if staff give their work emails out to friends and family, but I think it's a bit rich to then be precious about them texting you.

I've worked there 4 years, have never given my work email address out but have obviously sent an email to them in the past.

Just like my colleagues do.
It's not an issue. I was the manager there and didn't see any problem with it

Fair enough. I don't use my work account for anything personal, and wouldn't really expect my staff to do this either, but perhaps it's a different work culture. What would all the other "junk" messages that you mentioned be about?

Perhaps she was being nice? Alerting u that a family member is using wrong email - to save you embarrassment if they send something too personal in future. YABU.

You should also give a personal email to friends and family not a work one then you won't have this problem in the next job.

Perhaps your ex-work account is being forwarded to someone else for a handover period. They presumably wont know if you get these annually, monthly, weekly or daily. yabu not to do as asked , but whether you wait until you get back is up to you.

YABVU. Your colleague was obviously trying to be helpful: your family member needed to know (a) that you weren't going to see the email she had sent and that (b) strangers would see the pictures of her family if she carries on sending them to that address. If she'd been texting you about a work issue, that would different. I really can't see how this conceivably hurt you or spoilt your holiday.

I don't see what the problem is, complete non issue.

It's a text, not a court summons to take immediate action.

This colleague probably thought it was worth reminding you about this person who emails so you don't miss anything from them, so text you while it was on her mind. She was being thoughtful.

The out of office message would tell the family member that the original email had not got through. Ex-colleague was being a bit officious sending the text, but I suppose they might have wondered if some very personal stuff might come through and wanted to prevent embarrassment all round.

Bottom line is, if you use a work account for personal stuff, you can't complain if they contact you about that stuff in your personal (non-work) time.

Get a separate account for your personal emails, and this problem won't arise.

YABU. Either your colleague was annoyed with sorting through personal emails of tots or was trying to be helpful.

LondonMother, the colleague wouldn't necessarily have known about the out of office message or what was precisely it said, particularly if the arrangement was for emails to OP to be forwarded to her.

If you don't work there anymore but friends or family are still trying to contact you on work email, wouldn't you like to know so that you can give them a correct address?

This is not someone contacting you on holiday, this is someone contacting you to let you know that you are still receiving emails to a job you no longer work in. If you have left, when was she supposed to contact you?

YABU

In the nicest possible way, why should your ex-colleagues care whether you're on holiday? Do you really think that their primary concern should be you? I think they were doing you a favour. Don't be ungracious.

Also, I think you meant "texted", rather than "text".

This former colleague was doing you and the other family member a favour by notifying you about this email.

Can you honestly not see that?

No such word as texted, so little confused by that.

There was no need.

They know my out of office

My emails are not being forwarded.

They are checking them periodically before it gets switched off

She knows the email from family is not an important one as I would mention it every so often when one came through.

If she has to delete others, then no issue with deleting that too IMO

I am surlrised your old work email address has not been deleted or deactivated. This is one of the things that happens when someone leaves my workplace.

Maybe the flrmer colleague thought that there was something important in the email that you needed to know about?

The text was not sent to me in a helpful kind way.

It was a 'sort this out' kind of thing which got my back up.

YABU

But why shouldn't they want you to sort it out? You are not on holiday from work, you have finished employment and did not ensue that personal emails stopped being sent to a work address, meaning someone else is having to delete them, wasting their time.

You know what gets my back up? Posters who ask if they're being unreasonable and then get all arsey when people say yes.

God lord what fuss over someone doing a nice thing.

Get a grip

I am actually totally surprised to find out that people think its ok contacting people on holiday about totally non issues.

I would t have done this when I worked there to these people, and expect the same respect back.