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?

@SockUnicorn it’s bevause you need to turn off your Wifi AND put on airplane mode

TBF to the op, I get stupid messages from my boss at all times of the day asking daft questions that I have already answered - so I can see their point to an extent!

This seems to be such a non-issue. It’s unlikely to be something that needed an instant reply (people phone if it’s thst important), no need to fuss over whether to read it or not. For all the person sending the whatsapp message knows you could be out/exhausted and fallen asleep early/dropped your phone down the back of the sofa...and so on.

I really don’t see why you’d be worried enough about not reading it for a few hours to have to ask!

I messaged my manager this week at 8.30 pm to let her know I couldn't make it to an arranged meeting in morning. I waa fine but my daughter off school..better to know the night before than when you show up to meet me.. sometimes work spills into personal time..

If it was a text message you wouldnt have this issue

The issue with a name change is that under your MN settings you can have the OP highlighted in a particular colour and your own messages also highlighted in a different colour. So the whole thread box is green for the OP.

Therefore if you just wish to read any messages by the OP you can scroll through for the highlighted bits which are very obvious to see. If they name change you miss what they have said.

You're a manager OP.

Act like one and show some responsibility for your team.

If that means occasionally dealing with stuff out of work hours, so be it.

I wouldn't employ people in positions of responsibility if they weren't prepared to do this.

Waterbuffalo... I had no idea about these settings. Where are they hiding?

I manage people and only respond to messages in work time and through the approved channels. I would not respond to a WhatsApp message at all. Email or work phone in work hours only.

What was the messssaaagggeee!!?!?!?!!

the op posted the message at 21.27 last night @sirlee66 read the thread

Oh come on now, @SillyMoomin OP changed her name and so her follow up post wasn't highlighted now was it. We don't all have time to read through 87 messages of advise now do we? Clearly you do But I do appreciate you telling me the time the name-changing-OP told us what the message said.

They use whatsapp because they can. They think its easy. As a manager, I would never enable my direct reporting colleagues to be able to communicate to me via WhatsApp. Nor would I ever use ' 'hun 'as a common vernacular between us. For friends and relatives - No problem. Work colleagues- no way.