Why why why why do they do this?

[FlyingDumbo]

Why do I get a million phone calls from work every time I take a day off. Every time. I have tried ignoring them, I now have 7 voicemails on my cell and my home phone has been ringing all day. What is this emergency you ask? Nothing. It was something that could easily have been left as a note for me for tomorrow. I told them NEVER call me at home unless it is an emergency. The phone literally rang 30 minutes later. I am not answering the phone. Figure it out people, you are all adults. Not that bright apparently. And when they ask the office MANGER she tells them to call me. NOPE.

I think from now on, phone off the hook. Ugh it is ringing again. I have caller ID you idiots, I am not picking up. So much for relaxing.

 

[cam&phoebsmom]

I would take the phone off the hook for the rest of the day or just let it keep going to your voicemail but there is no way I would answer it at all.

Maybe tomorrow you should walk up to the Office Manager and ask how to get reimbursed for the vacation day when you kept getting calls. Ask her if you are being paid a flat $50 fee for each phone call you take, or for every call you should just get 2 hours of your leave back.

That may make her think twice about telling the other person to call, LOL.

I hope it gets better-I had a horrible job I quit and for 2 weeks after I was getting phone calls on how to run the reports, etc. All things they should have known how to do IF anybody else aside from me had ever bothered to actually work there instead of passing it off on me. I just stopped answering aftr the 3rd day and they were still trying. Sometimes I would see people out and about why still worked there and they would ask me questions and I just kept saying, "hmmm I am not sure but I showed XXXX how to do it before I left so you can check with them."

 

[DWGal210]

I like the idea about asking for that day off to be credited back to you. That's ridiculous for them to not leave you alone. If it's a true emergency that's one thing - but since it's not, that's annoying.

 

[tlbwriter]

"If I'm going to be on-call, I expect on-call pay. So how much do I get for yesterday?"

 

[hereyago]

I'm not quite sure if you are the big boss-with the office manager who doesn't want to do their job while you are away- or if you are a person who isn't a boss but yet people always come to you to do things.

however, either one: the very first time it happened, you should have nipped it in the bud then.

If you are the big boss, have the big boss pants on and essentially tell everyone do not call you, the office manager would be getting a come to Jesus moment if they really wanted to do their job or not.

If you are the person who people come to for answers, STOP IT!!!!!!!!!! really. you are just enabling people to keep coming to you even on your day off.


Now, rest up so you can have a DISCUSSION about it tomorrow in whatever capacity you have.

P.S. If you aren't the boss, I too like the 50.00 phone fee thing, i bet they won't call after that.

 

[tvguy]

This is the reason why my wife and I still have a landline, and why we NEVER give out our cell phone numbers. That way we can turn the ringer off and turn the answering machine off and not be disturbed, and if there is a family emergency, everyone in the family does have the cell phone numbers.

 

[kwelch10377]

Maybe it was one of your coworkers calling to tell you that donut lady finally flew off the deep end??

 

[sam_gordon]

I'm not a lawyer but...

1) Are you on salary (as opposed to hourly)? If so, my understanding is you are never really "off the clock".
2) If you are hourly, start billing them for each phone call. I'm guessing your time goes in 15 minute increments, well, put in for 15 minutes for every time you talk to them (if it takes longer than 15 minutes, then bill 30).
3) I'm pretty sure you can't go to your boss and say "I want $50 for every phone call I answered today".
4) At my company there is no "on call" pay. If you get called, you put in the time you work. There's no penalty, no extra money. If you work, you get paid.

Yes, it sucks. All I can suggest is turning your ringer down or off and not answering the calls.

 

[FlyingDumbo]

I'm not quite sure if you are the big boss-with the office manager who doesn't want to do their job while you are away- or if you are a person who isn't a boss but yet people always come to you to do things.

however, either one: the very first time it happened, you should have nipped it in the bud then.

If you are the big boss, have the big boss pants on and essentially tell everyone do not call you, the office manager would be getting a come to Jesus moment if they really wanted to do their job or not.

If you are the person who people come to for answers, STOP IT!!!!!!!!!! really. you are just enabling people to keep coming to you even on your day off.


Now, rest up so you can have a DISCUSSION about it tomorrow in whatever capacity you have.

P.S. If you aren't the boss, I too like the 50.00 phone fee thing, i bet they won't call after that.

I am not the boss. I am just a lowly peon coworker. Our office manager is the wife of one of the Doctors in the practice and she comes and goes as she pleases. She is completely 100% useless. She doesn't do anything and if she does on occasion try to do something, usually we have to fix it after she leaves. I am certain she makes a lot more money than I do and works a heck of a lot less. There is a lot of new hires in the office and when they have questions she sends them to me. When I am in the office I do not mind helping them at all, we were all new and all need to learn somehow. When I am off, I do not want to be bothered. When I quit, and that day is coming, she is up a creek.

Here is the thing, I do not answer the phone they keep calling and calling and calling. Telling them not to call doesn't work, not answering doesnt work. And dingbat office manager tells them to call me. Talking to her is like beating your head against the wall. You say something and she nods like she gets it, then she does the same thing again and acts like it is the first time she has ever been told not to do it. I am certain she is working with us only because she could not hold a job anywhere else and she can't get fired because of her husband. She comes in, talks on her cell phone, shops online, and irritates all of us. Fortunately she isn't around much. OH! She does open the mail. Then she leaves it around wherever she was when she opened it, without telling anyone so sometimes important mail gets missed.

I think I need to sit down with the Doctor and have a discussion about this.

 

[FlyingDumbo]

Maybe it was one of your coworkers calling to tell you that donut lady finally flew off the deep end??

Ha! I wish. The useless office manager is the only reason that whackadoo still has a job.

 

[onelilspark]

I work in sales from a home office. I have a work blackberry that for a few years I also used as my personal cell (I'm not really a chatty person, so it was never a big deal.) But it drove me crazy when I went on vacation that they expected me to answer my emails through my phone. I took a cruise where I kept the phone off for the week and it was pure bliss. Since then I got myself a personal phone that I did NOT give them the number to so that on weekends and after 530, I turn off my work cell. If everyone in the office gets to leave work at the office when they go home, I do too

Best decision I ever made quite frankly. Changed jobs and my new manager knows that I have a personal cell but understands why I won't give them the number (HR has it for a true "emergency") and on weekends/vacation, my work phone is turned off and I will not respond. Will it mean that I might get passed over for a promotion because I'm not a "hard worker?" Maybe (but I'll let my sales figures dictate that...) but I know my sanity is so worth it.

So I wouldn't go in there tomorrow demanding anything, but I would have a discussion with whoever was calling you that if you're off, not to call you. And don't even answer once next time.

ETA: reading some responses...who is your boss? Talk with them. There is something to be said about separation between work and home life. That's kind of the point of vacation days...

 

[hereyago]

I am not the boss. I am just a lowly peon coworker. Our office manager is the wife of one of the Doctors in the practice and she comes and goes as she pleases. She is completely 100% useless. She doesn't do anything and if she does on occasion try to do something, usually we have to fix it after she leaves. I am certain she makes a lot more money than I do and works a heck of a lot less. There is a lot of new hires in the office and when they have questions she sends them to me. When I am in the office I do not mind helping them at all, we were all new and all need to learn somehow. When I am off, I do not want to be bothered. When I quit, and that day is coming, she is up a creek.

Here is the thing, I do not answer the phone they keep calling and calling and calling. Telling them not to call doesn't work, not answering doesnt work. And dingbat office manager tells them to call me. Talking to her is like beating your head against the wall. You say something and she nods like she gets it, then she does the same thing again and acts like it is the first time she has ever been told not to do it. I am certain she is working with us only because she could not hold a job anywhere else and she can't get fired because of her husband. She comes in, talks on her cell phone, shops online, and irritates all of us. Fortunately she isn't around much. OH! She does open the mail. Then she leaves it around wherever she was when she opened it, without telling anyone so sometimes important mail gets missed.

I think I need to sit down with the Doctor and have a discussion about this.

OH snap. you have that girl in your office who trashes food to SAVE you, right and this is the same office manager who let her get by with that? oh yes, you need to talk to the doctor and tell him. if that doesn't help, someone comes to ask you something, re direct them because you don't know and get your phone numbers "changed"in your records.

I once had a boss, who liked for the workers to train new people. I was hourly, after the first person. I was like um am I getting paid extra for this? she said no, I said well, get someone else to do it, because honestly in that business, you are supposed to have the boss or the assistant do the training, that way the new person will be on the same page of knowing what the boss would want.

well, she ended up having another co worker do it, she actually told him-very professional-not-that I refused to do it, then he was all mad at me for a moment because I said no. he continued to be her doormat.

 

[JessicaR]

Sorry - I know how that feels.

 

[tarheel618]

or next time your off, forward your calls back to the office, it will ring first you can see who it is, if it is them let it go through back to office. When they realize that can't leave you a message it should stop.

 

[OhMari]

Your situation is not the same as my dh's, but he was told, "it is not like it was years ago, when you take a day off or go on vacation, you always need to be in contact if you want this job."

I have pictures of my dh at various places around WDW, talking on his phone. He didn't realize how much he actually was working, till I started showing pictures of himself when we got home. I actually typed a 3 page report from a conference call meeting he had one afternoon. I figured I could type a lot faster than he could and I wanted it done so we could get back to the parks.

 

[Disney Doll]

Caller ID.
If it rings, look at it. If it's work, don't answer.
Eventually, they'll get the message.

 

[PixieDustandEeyore]

my work always calls to get me to work on my day off i usually take it for the extra cash, but when I was on my honeymoon they called everyday asking me to come in. Uhm sure I'll be there after a 12 hour plane ride:|

Best of luck with your work lol

 

[pixiefairy]

I'm sorry OP. I work retail and I had taken a mini vacation a few weeks back. Was in a great mood, heading to pick up my best friend from the train station and get a lovely long text message about something that wasn't communicated to me that I had no control over considering I was not there. Completely put a damper on my day. If it happened once in awhile, it'd be one thing, but it happens a little too often. And I'm one of 4 managers. But I get the calls.

DH just had that happen today. His boss called him right as he got home, after he spent nearly 2 hours in the car in traffic. He had already stayed late for a conference call. I think they called him while we were on vacation last August, as well.

 

[hereyago]

You know ,businesses today are the first to tell you how expendable you are, but will turn right around and call you on your day off for some really stupid things that other people would hopefully know the answer to or be able to solve whatever problem, etc or think you should be at their beck and call.

 

[mrsheppo]

I know the feeling. It is very rare that I am not contacted on my days off or when I am on vacation from work. It's like no one else can figure anything out. When I was out on medical leave for 6 weeks, I received over 65 phones calls from work, starting with the day I had surgery. My DH fielded that first call and told them that if I answered the phone, I might ream someone a new one.

The last time I went to WDW the only reason I didn't get any phone calls was they forgot to dial the area code for my cell since I was out of the area.