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.

of course texted is a word

Ooooh, is this a reverse? Are you actually the work colleague who is fed up of deleting incoming emails when people should have been informed that is was no longer active?

You are not on holiday, you have left!

I would have just sent a text back saying 'Thanks will do' and then got on with my holiday. It would have taken 20 seconds instead of starting a thread on MN and wasting more of my holiday!

But you are not on holiday from work. You have finished there. Normally when people move jobs they email all their personal contacts explaining that they will no longer be at that address.

Also the pictures may be quite large and clogging up the server.

Celia that is hilarious!

What a non issue that would be indeed

I am now realising that mumsnetters are full of people who are ok contacting people about silly things when they are in holiday.

So in the world of mumsnet IABU

Hang on, the OP is quite rightly getting annoyed about being contacted by somewhere she no longer works. They lost this right the minute they stopped paying her.....

Her old work should pull their finger out & de-activate her email account. In lieu of them doing this OP, block the texter & ignore....

Text back ' I'm on holiday'

The thing is you DO need to sort this out. It is not for your colleagues to decide which of YOUR PERSONAL emails are important and which aren't. The point is it's personal nothing to do with work, not for them to deal with or make decisions about.

What if they made a judgement call and the email happened to hold important information? You'd be on here asking if YWBU to be angry at a colleague for deleting your PERSONAL email.

On top of which dealing with your personal email during company time isn't in anyone's job description (including yours no doubt) so they shouldn't have to deal with it. You should have notified your family members BEFORE you left, then they wouldn't need to text you. You didn't, your fault.

YABU. Get over yourself and get it sorted.

There is no reason for you to deal with this whilst on holiday. Ring once home.

Meh.

Glad to see you accept YABU even if with a bad grace

Enjoy your new job and the rest of your 'holiday'

Another small point, you can't be 'on holiday' from somewhere you no longer work. She's also no longer 'a colleague'.

Whether or not you would text colleagues whilst they were on annual leave is a moot point, because you aren't a colleague any more. You're someone who used to work there, whether you are on holiday or not is nothing to do with them. You left something personal unresolved, they text asking you to resolve it. The holiday is a red herring because you no longer work there they are not obliged to consider anything about when it's appropriate to contact you.

Would you get in a snit and start a thread if your bank text you whilst on holiday?

You're talking rubbish Coola, she's gone - they should nuke her account & stop bothering her. Nothing to do with her at all now....

Texted not text

So are you seat or are you seated then? Since when a pub is a verb?

A noun not a pub.

Hang on, the OP is quite rightly getting annoyed about being contacted by somewhere she no longer works. They lost this right the minute they stopped paying her.....

You would be quite right if they were contacting her about work emails. They are not paying her to deal with those any more. However, they never did pay her to deal with her personal emails, and so the fact that she no longer works there is irrelevant.

If she had not used her work email for her personal correspondence (which she clearly checked during working hours as she used to comment on them to colleagues ), then they would have no reason to contact her now.

There IS such a word as texted....to use "text" in the past tense is stupid.

Why don't you let this drop and go and enjoy your holiday.

yabu & rather up yourself.

If I were you, I'd sign up to all sorts of mailing lists when I got back - maybe then they'll pull their fingers out & sort their admin out...

I'm struggling to understand the problem.