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My wife gets calls all evening long from clients on the west coast. Not as sucky as being woken up but still a huge interruption. People don't seem to understand how time works.
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Seriously, nobody cares that you're offended.
Seriously, nobody cares that you're offended.
One the flip side...
I love that my main contact at Informa (on the West Coast) starts her work day there at 6 AM local time, so I can talk to her, and get decisions, starting at 9 AM MY time.
I really do wish that clients/MSCs would pay better attention to time differences! I am not fit to talk to anyone, much less to type or upload pictures, at 6:30 AM.
I love that my main contact at Informa (on the West Coast) starts her work day there at 6 AM local time, so I can talk to her, and get decisions, starting at 9 AM MY time.
I really do wish that clients/MSCs would pay better attention to time differences! I am not fit to talk to anyone, much less to type or upload pictures, at 6:30 AM.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
1) I would tell this MSC that they should communicate with me via emails and not texts. This way you can get to it when you wake up at a normal West Coast time. 2) I turn off my phone every night before I sleep and it does not come on until I wake up. I know that not everyone feels comfortable doing this in the event that a family member needs to reach you in an emergency. However I also have a land line and family members have that number and know to call me there in the middle of the night if necessary. Business can wait as far as I am concerned. I check my emails right before I sleep and first thing when I wake up and in between is my SLEEP time!
Yes! So annoying! I turn my sound off overnight, but I have also been called at 6am...usually when I forget to turn the sound off of course. Even if their system doesn't show them each shopper's time zone for some reason, they should be able to look at the location they're trying to fill and get the time zone from there.
Happily shopping the Pacific Northwest. Shopping since 2013 
This used to happen to me all the time when I lived in Rio Grande...NJ. I had to tell them a million times I'm in NJ and not Texas and to please not call or text me that early.
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Teenagers and millennials will tell you that acceptable texting hours are “not a thing.” You can text somebody any time. You are supposed to have the phone on silent or do not disturb if you don’t want to be bothered.
Welcome to the new way of life. Personally, I think it is terrible, but I’m not ruling the world. That’s how the new generation behaves.
Example:
Me: don’t text your friend it’s 11 o’clock at night .
17 year old: mom, that’s not a thing.
Welcome to the new way of life. Personally, I think it is terrible, but I’m not ruling the world. That’s how the new generation behaves.
Example:
Me: don’t text your friend it’s 11 o’clock at night .
17 year old: mom, that’s not a thing.
Right. I remember before my stepkids had cell phones and they wanted to call their friends or tell friends to call them after 9 p.m. on our house phone, I said, "It's rude to call someone after 9 p.m. and no one better be calling our house after 9 p.m.." Eye roll from kids, "Why, we don't go to bed until 10 p.m. It's not fair!" Then the explanation from other parents that it's acceptable in this (that) day and age. Um, not in my house, sorry. I stuck with it until they had their cell phones. I still didn't like it much but they had their phones with them in their rooms, so...
My husband is the unfortunate recipient of group text messages with his kids, who are now all adults (I explained to leave me out of this loop). He gets caught in the crossfire between the four of them at inopportune moments and he mildly gripes about it. And when his phone goes off in at midnight by one of them responding to the group text (one kid lives in Texas), it wakes me up and not him, LOL.
My husband is the unfortunate recipient of group text messages with his kids, who are now all adults (I explained to leave me out of this loop). He gets caught in the crossfire between the four of them at inopportune moments and he mildly gripes about it. And when his phone goes off in at midnight by one of them responding to the group text (one kid lives in Texas), it wakes me up and not him, LOL.
I have that problem due to wanting to keep my 321 area code from the Space Coast of Florida - yet I moved to Gilbert Arizona! So I get calls at 5am during the summer and 6am during the winter (AZ has no daylight savings time so summer we are Pacific time and winter we are Mountain Time). I have just started turning my phone off and now sleep great!
Some phones have an option for Do Not Disturb to let some calls or notifications to ring through. I created a list of Favorites that I select as an exception in the Do Not Disturb. When I don't want any calls through at all I select the None option.
I don't want the phone ringing or chiming during off hours unless there's a life threatening emergency. And I'm certainly no good (or very pleasant) before my 1st shot of espresso.
My volume is always off. Unless I know I am about to receive an important call, which is almost never.
@Jenny Cassada wrote:
This used to happen to me all the time when I lived in Rio Grande...NJ. I had to tell them a million times I'm in NJ and not Texas and to please not call or text me that early.
But...if they were trying to reach you even as early as 8am Central, it'd be 9am Eastern. You'd always be an hour later. And even so, the one hour time difference is less annoying than the three hours between coasts. Calling someone at 10am Eastern is 7am Pacific.
You might have just been dealing with someone who isn't concerned with your schedule.
Jas, your statement below reminds me of the newborn and infant days when my husband did, or pretended to, miraculously sleep through every baby crying in night incident. I think at least mothers are conditioned to wake up at every sound in the night.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
And when his phone goes off in at midnight by one of them responding to the group text (one kid lives in Texas), it wakes me up and not him, LOL.
The spousal unit accuses me of that all the time.
@sandyf wrote:
Jas, your statement below reminds me of the newborn and infant days when my husband did, or pretended to, miraculously sleep through every baby crying in night incident. I think at least mothers are conditioned to wake up at every sound in the night.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
And when his phone goes off in at midnight by one of them responding to the group text (one kid lives in Texas), it wakes me up and not him, LOL.
I sure don't sleep through his snoring either.
I got at email at 11:19 PM asking for a "swift response." It's Sunday night and my alarm goes off at 5:00 AM for work. There has to be some reasonableness to these requests.
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