May I vent, please? Lorib

Vent away... What's worse is it makes no sense.  First - if she was not aware of your work schedule (for whatever reason), one might reasonably assume you work an 8-5 shift, so a 7am call to offer "company" would make no sense.  (btw, I doubt there is any time in my life when I'd be so bored at 7am that I'd want company.)  Second - if she WAS aware of your work schedule, then she should be aware of your resulting sleep pattern.  Neither option makes 7am a reasonable time to call.  I vote for 12noon - either you're at lunch (ish?) on an 8-5 job, or maybe awake after a full "night's" rest from your night-time job.

And it's not even like it was a booty call!!  Maybe her internal clock was off (was she coming from a different time zone, and SHE was bored??)

In any event, she owes you chocolate.

miranadobe

And it's not even like it was a booty call!! 

OK, I was dying was I read this!!!  LOL

7 am is waaay too early regardless of anyone's work schedule.  There is only one person I call that early and that is my mom, who I know gets up at 6:00.  Typically, I don't call anyone at home before 9:00 am and after 9:00 pm.  If she wanted to check to see if you were up she should have sent you a text message that way it doesn't disturb you and if you were up you would get it.

Sometimes I think people assume the world revolves around them and if they are up everyone should be up!

 She was definitely out of line!

I follow the 9am - 9pm rule also. Of course, we're not counting my mom and my kids. That said, I do have a few "call anytime" friends and I do mean they can call at any time.

Is it possible Angela thought she was one of those??

Wow.  7am??  TOO early!  I am a morning person.  I'm up at between 6 and 7 evon on my days off, but I would never think to call someone at that time!  Well, I will call my mom and sister at 8 at the earliest, but no one else until around 10.  I think I am the only crazy personup at 6am on my days off!

I err on the safe side, at all times...and never call anyone, anytime.

I'm the same way, Lori. I HATE when people call and wake me up - and I HAVE thrown the phone.

When we hired a new girl at work, she would call. constantly while she was at work to tell me stupid things, or to ask stupid questions. We've now worked it out where she emails me when she gets home, and I'll respond when I get up. I work 50 hours in 4 days, so I need all the sleep I can get! 

People learn quickly...when you yell and hang up on them.

Ohhh Lori -- she could have gotten rabies from the snarl *I* would have given her!! (I can draw blood from miles away LOL)

SUNDAY MORNING I got this telemarketing call disguised as "information" (which they think exempts them from the do not call registry) --- I had gone to bed at 3:00 a.m. and had to wake up when David went to work at 8 but had gotten back to sleep.  THIS IDIOT CALLED AT !1:00 on a Sunday.

I answered with a gravelly voice -- and he's schlepping on about nothing and I said "WHO are you and WHAT do you want?" He made some inane comment about me being grumpy and I told him he woke me up.

HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO COMMENT ON THE TIME as tho *everyone* should have been up.

1.  What business is it of his

2.  Why should ANY marketing person call on a Sunday which is the typical day 'off' for most

3.  The world should just RESPECT THAT -- why should I have to justify myself to ANYONE?  I should NOT.  I WILL NOT.  I crashed the phone in his ear and took it off the hook.  I was livid. 

My bedroom phone doesn't show caller ID and I keep the ringer turned off on that one anyway.  I started doing that years ago when the ex-DIL (who is a  bit of a head case) was living in Ohio and she could never remember which side of the country was ahead three hours or behind.  She'd call to talk to the kids on a weekend at 9 a.m. her time thinking it was noon in CA.  NOT! I figure it it's important enough to call, they can leave a message and I'll get it later.

Joyce

calliecritturs

2.  Why should ANY marketing person call on a Sunday which is the typical day 'off' for most

Well, in my case, I am out the door on weekdays by about quarter of six. There are a select few people who can call me at that time of the morning, like the people I go see in the morning. I'd of course want them to. If you're not on the that list of people, or I haven't otherwise told you it was ok to call, wait until 8am, unless it's an emergency. The people on the ok to call me list also have been told that, if they happen to call early and I am still asleep, I have a habit of saying nasty things. If you can't deal with that possibility, you shouldn't call me. In general, I won't make calls in the morning until 9am on a weekday. That's actually about what time I get home from working, so unless someone called me, or I need to because I was supposed to see them before 10 or so, it waits until then. 

The people who would regularly call me tend to ask how late is ok. Most times, I say 11. I don't think anyone has ever called me after 9 or 10. People with kids, I typically won't call after the kids are in bed unless I absolutely need to.

 Frick, calling at 7am is way to early! Even if I went to bed at a decent time and didn't have to work I still wouldn't want to talk to ANYONE at 7am.

Angela is a personal friend of ten years who lives less than 20 miles from me.  She KNOWS my work schedule. She is just clueless as to social niceties. I try to cut her some slack on these things because, deep down, she is a good person.

I talked with her last night and explained again about my schedule. She has promised not to call me before 8:30, so let's hope she remembers this.  her memory (due to advanced diabetes) is not what is could be.

I turn my phone off at night, it's better that way. I have one friend who, bless his heart, calls me very early on weekends to invite me to breakfast, even though I've told him several times that I don't eat breakfast and I'm not up with the sun. He just doesn't get it.......

I would've been upset, I love my sleep!

And vent away, I do more than my fair share, I'm sure ;)