To not open the whatsapp?

[Nunyabusiness]

I'm a manager. I've just received a whatsapp from someone in my team who has been off sick all week. It's starts 'hi nunya, sorry for messaging outside work hours but I just...' and that's all I could see when it popped up. It's clearly work-related otherwise it would have started with more of a 'hi hun, chit chatty' vibe.

AIBU to leave it unread and open it in the morning?

Ahhh read it! One of my girls whatsapped me last night to tell me she was in hospital and might not be able to phone me in the morning. I’d rather get a Whatsapp the day before than a phone call an hour before work.

On android if you tap and hold the home page you get the option for widgets. Go to the WhatsApp widgets (last page) and choose the big WhatsApp box (press and hold) move it onto a spare screen along side your home page. All what's app messages can be seen and read in the box without going into what's app.

Or you could just read it ;)

If my 'manager' made a thread about a message I'd sent them, then I'd have very little faith in their social skills and ability to manage people.

You're being very unprofessional. Just open it and quit the drama.

I’m not sure it would be a great idea to post the message on mumsnet really. Bearing in mind you’re their manager.

Well I've opened it.

She's in the hospital, and won't be in tomorrow.

I have - of course - told her not to worry, because I'm not a cold hearted dragon.

Is it going to make any difference as to when you read it ? ie is your work closed until tomorrow ?

I manage people when I'm at work, during my office hours, not when I'm at home with my family.

Why do managers need to get involved with work stuff at 9pm at night? They dont have to.

Thank god no one I work with plays silly games like this. I wouldn't message my manager unless it was an emergency, but I did when I broke my leg and was in hospital, I figured that she would prefer to know asap so she could arrange cover rather than drop her in it the next morning.

Read it or don't, but I can't for the life of me work out why an adult would want to pretend they hadn't read a message.

Bit of a namechange fail op, I'd get this deleted tbh, it's very unprofessional.

Bit of a namechange fail op, I'd get this deleted tbh, it's very unprofessional.

Totally agree.

How is it a name change fail, what am I missing

Me too. Name change fail?

@Ktay it's not really. In the first name there's a capital and in the second there's not.

The only difference is the OP has decapitalised her user-name in the 2127 post. But not a cunning difference between them, granted :)

OP still has the name "nunyabusiness" just wrote it with a Capital the second time. Maybe because she's now on a phone rather than a laptop, maybe because she went back to her usual name for another thread. No big drama!

Why the name change?!

oops, capital the first time I mean. So was probably on her phone then. My phone always puts a capital for my name regardless of how I write it.

See!

Ah I see, thanks everyone

So your staff member has given you lots of warning, when she's got phone battery, that she's in hospital and won't be in tomorrow. And your issue is that it's after working hours? It's clearly an unusual situation and she apologised from the off. I am really puzzled by your attitude to this.

Yes, it was a name change to post on another thread. No real scandal there I'm afraid.

For people saying I'm unprofessional, I'm not sure why you'd say that? I've not posted anything outing about myself, our employee or the nature of the work we do. The work we do is office hours based, if someone doesn't come in then the work either waits or gets dealt with by another member of the team, there's no requirement to find cover. I perhaps should have made that clear in my op, apologies.

I was interested to see what the general consensus in a situation like this, that's all. As it happens, on this I occasion there is a valid reason for a late night message and I've told our employee not to worry about work and to focus on her health. That said, the outcome would have been the same if I'd not picked up the message until the morning.

I know AIBU can be a bit controversial, but there's really no more to it than that

@gnushoes as far as I can see op has told her staff member it's fine and not to worry now that she's read the message.
What attitude are you on about?

If you have an iPhone, you can see the whole message by bringing the drop son menu up, going to the message and swiping left and clicking the 'view' option. Then you can know exactly what the rest of the message says without opening what's app.

@kaytee87 er, the attitude where OP starts a thread on mumsnet because an employee has sent a Whatsapp in the evening - a bit over the top, surely? Agree her update was fine.

nunyabusiness Thu 01-Feb-18 21:27:37
Well I've opened it.

She's in the hospital, and won't be in tomorrow.

I have - of course - told her not to worry, because I'm not a cold hearted dragon.

Glad you did open the message, not sure why you hesitated tho