To think it's very rude to ring somebody at 7.30 in the morning

[ImNotAMorningPerson]

Unless it's particularly important or an emergency?

[fastwigglylines]

YANBU. Far too early, inconsiderate and sexist to boot.

[PrimeraVez]

Honestly it wouldn't even cross my mind to be pissed off about this. What time does the nursery start? My DS is in nursery by 8am this morning, so 7.30 seems entirely normal for the staff to be in and making admin calls before the kids arrive.

I understand you're pissed off at being disturbed after a shit night with the baby, but I think YABU. Just put your phone on silent if you don't want to be disturbed? Surely if you're trying to catch up on sleep, it would be on silent anyway? Mine would be, otherwise it would be constantly pinging with alerts and emails and messages.

[Xiaoxiong]

Tureen the second episode of Motherland I was screaming at the screen when the school rings the mum at work because her son has no swimming kit and she says "did you even TRY ringing my husband, his number's down first"

[MaggieFS]

YANBU but you should put your phone on silent

[Lalapurple]

I would be annoyed too- but also put the phone on silent.

[unmarkedbythat]

7.30 seems ridiculously early on days I don't have to be anywhere, perfectly reasonable on days I am going to work and will have been out of the house long before then. Given that most nurseries I know open for 7am anyway, I can see why 7.30 isn't the crack of dawn for the staff and they might not expect people receiving a call to see it as a problem.

[itbemay1]

I kind of agree but then I am also amazed by the amount of people that complain about emails/texts or calls at hours that don't suit them, my phone is on silent from 8pm until I get up, there is a choice to do that and a choice to answer if suits.

[ilovesushi]

That is crazy early. I would be in a complete panic thinking there was an emergency.

[swaziscot]

That is very early to be phoning anyone, I’m up by 7 but I’d still find it a weird antisocial time to get a non urgent phone call.
However I agree with the others you should change the settings on your phone to avoid this problem in future. I go to bed early and always have my phone on silent because I don’t want to hear texts coming through at 11pm or later. There are settings where certain contacts you choose would still be able to get hold of you in an emergency.

[LolaSmiles]

It seems early, but if it's a day DC would normally be in then fair enough. Whether you're unreasonable or not depends on whether you or your DH is down as the primary contact.

If he is the primary contact YANBU, unless they have tried to get through to him and failed.

If you are the primary contact then YABU as it is unreasonable to expect nursery to remember the pick up and drop off arrangements, plus that the primary contact is the primary contact, except on mornings because she has a baby and doesn't want to be called.

[iljatdip]

Nobody disturbs me at that time in the morning because my phone is on silent.
There was a thread on here a while back where some posters were saying they don't see why they should put their phone on silent because it's inconvenient and others should know not to be rude and send a text in the message in the middle of the night.
It takes a couple of minutes to set up do not disturb mode and list exceptions and then you're good to go. You can set it to come on automatically or you can switch it on every night when you go to bed and off in the morning. It takes seconds.

Times have changed and I think that people do phone and send messages at times which would have been considered rude in the past, in the assumption that people who do not want to be disturbed will have their phone on silent.

If the nursery phones at 7.30 am and you don't pick up they would then try DH's phone surely as he is the next listed contact and if it wasn't that urgent they'd presumably ring you back later.

[Same4Walls]

It takes a couple of minutes to set up do not disturb mode and list exceptions and then you're good to go.

The trouble is as I and others have pointed out surely most people would have their child's nursery as one of the exceptions as they would most likely normally be ringing because of an emergency.

[LunaHeather]

I agree OP

7.30 is ridiculous

I have to keep my phone on as well but 7.30 is emergency territory.

[MargaretThursday]

Just remembering a friend who phoned bright and cheerful at about 5:30am.
She'd been up since 3am with her little one and it felt like halfway through the morning. She was very apologetic when she realised.

I'd say with a nursery 7:30 is probably the time to phone because they'll have children coming in from 8am and if they want to catch you before you get in, it's probably their best time.

[QueenPaw]

Wouldn't say mega early for a nursery. I start calling people at 8am and work in a car dealership

[dottiedodah]

I always put my phone on silent at night.

[MrsTophamHat]

I do think it's unreasonable to phone someone before 9am unless the matter is urgent. An email would have been preferable.

I have notifications turned off between 10pm and 7am however, I haven't blocked phone calls because I would assume that anyone ringing me during the night would need me urgently.

[Sometimesonly]

I agree OP. My son's primary school teacher rang me once at 8am to tell me she had given him the wrong page number for his homework?!

[Sometimesonly]

On a Sunday!

[LolaSmiles]

Sometimesonly
That's ridiculous! What were they thinking?

[Peanutbutterblood]

I wouldn't mind. I'm up at 6/630 and I tend my phone is usually on silent until then.

I'd prefer people called early then after 5pm when I've got dinner and bedtime going on.

[Chewingle]

Pretty much anyone other than childcare or school - I’d be slightly peeved

Never so with childcare or school

[Chewingle]

@Sometimesonly

I agree OP. My son's primary school teacher rang me once at 8am to tell me she had given him the wrong page number for his homework?!

Probably only chance all day!

[IloveFebruary]

Too early. YANBU about that.
I switch my phone on airplane mode when I go to bed and switch it back when I wake up. I have a DH for anything of any importance before I’m awake.

[ChevyCamaro]

Yanbu at all! I would never have put my phone on silent when i had a little one in nursery just in case they needed to urgently contact me. This wasn’t urgent so yes its too early. And anything before 10 on a weekend is too early also.
I hate morning people, smug gits. Just because you’re up doesn’t mean the world is!