AIBU to not be expected to answer emails at the weekend?

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Awkward conversation with landlord today. An email was sent on a Friday whilst I was at work. I replied on Monday morning. My landlord seems to think that I should be picking up emails at the weekend. I've firmly said that isn't possible, but now I'm wondering if I'm being unreasonable. I have said that a text message if there is anything urgent would be better as I can quickly respond after work. AIBU to think that I should be able to enjoy my weekend without interference?

Yanbu.
Not your landlords business if you open emails or not.
A text is a better vehicle if you are looking for a quick answer.

Yes, if I had read the email on Friday, which I couldn't because I was working without access to it.

It wasn't.

Been waiting patiently for 4 months for tradesman to tell me when he would do snagging on a job!

Had an hour between 2 different jobs to sort dinner for dc and get out again as soon as babysitter arrived. And I think you may have missed that their office was closed from 4pm. They received my reply ten minutes after office had opened on Monday.
Am starting to think that mn not for me, a lot of bizarre angry responses tonight!

nice little drip there

So you have a partner?

Can you point to the part where she mentions a partner? And explain how that's relevant to the landlord's choice not to call or text if an urgent response was needed?

ETA: PP changed edited the content of their comment

No I don’t pick up work emails on the weekend unless we are in a crisis with world events (eg war in Ukraine) but even then we share this duty so not one person is doing it all. When things are calm I never look at emails, people have my number for anything urgent

a) i deleted as my error
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b) relevant because if the op did… then she could have delegated to partner to resolve d whilst she was rushing out door for second job

You're welcome. We aren't on call to anybody really... nothing is that urgent. Totally reasonable!if urgent, ring!

I don’t think YABU. You’ve told your landlord how to contact you in an emergency. They’ve chosen not to do that, so it’s reasonable to infer that it isn’t an emergency. Imo anyone who isn’t paying you is not entitled to demand a response within a certain timeframe.

Whyever would you not reply to an email from your landlord over the weekend?

Your landlord likely doesn't have a rule about not replying to emails at a weekend so if you'd messaged on Friday night, 3am on Saturday or Sunday lunch time he could have dealt with it then. Most people check personal emails on a regular basis rather than only during the working week.

I might have missed it but did you read or see the email from landlord on Friday or over the weekend?

If no then tbh I don’t think YABU.

If your landlord has your number they should text or call if trying to book in a tradesman for the next week. I’m trying to be on my phone less especially at weekends and I don’t check my emails at all really on Saturday/Sunday but I do answer texts or calls.

I always check my emails at the weekend but I wouldn’t check them multiple times.

I could check them Saturday morning and then not check again until Sunday evening.
So anything urgent may not get answered.

An email should be used if it’s something that is a week or more away but anything that’s needed the same day or next couple of days should be a text/phone call.

Yanbu op. I only do 'life admin' during work hours. I'm lucky that I have a job where I can do that though.

he may die of old age first if he emails me.

He'd also be asked when he adopted me or employed me! He's not my Dad nor my boss so WTAF does he think he has the right to dictate when I reply to emails.

its 2024, but a phone still has the capacity to make a phone call or text.

hes a nob.

Oh & neither my Dad nor my boss would get away with it either, but I'd be less rude telling them to Fuck iff!

I don't reply to work emails on the weekend but why doesn't your landlord have your personal email?

I don't think "many would welcome" a ticking off for not responding to an email, as if they were children.

The landlord should (and could) have called if it was so urgent, but the truth is, it wasn't. Tradespeople aren't usually around on a weekend either.

YANBU. Email is not an immediate way of getting a response. I think you're perfectly reasonable not to email when the person wasn't there anyway! If people want an immediate answer then I'd say text or WhatsApp have more expectation of a quick response, but many people have jobs that makes it impossible to reply straight away, so even with that there may be a few hours' delay.

did you landlord say this to you re responding over the weekend over the phone op or in an email?

Email is asynchronous and shouldn't be used for anything that needs an urgent response. A text would have been much more appropriate. I would also not respond well to a landlord scolding me about my response times, they do not own your time and it was not an emergency, extremely unprofessional of him to complain.

That said, I'm amazed you don't check email. Mine comes to my phone so it's just dealt with as and when, I'd have that kind of minor message dealt with on the way out of the door from work.

I don't understand what working hours have to do with when to answer personal emails? You seem oddly fixated on things which are not at all related.