KNNCCB I cannot take it anymore. Today I am on annual leave, trying to enjoy my McSpicy in peace, but my phone keeps buzzing. Is it my boss? No. Is it a client? No. It’s this over-enthusiastic, wayang specialist colleague who is supposedly sunbathing in Bali right now, but still hitting “Reply All” to every single thread within 4 minutes.
Bro, what is your problem? You think the company will collapse if you don’t type “Noted with thanks” from a beach?
Let’s call a spade a spade. Unless you are in commission-based sales and every minute means cold hard cash, replying to emails on leave is NOT “responsibility.” It is either you are insecure as hell, sick in the head, or you just love the taste of management’s leather shoes. You are literally a professional bola-licker. You think the MD is going to see your 2:00 PM email from Ubud and say, “Wah, give this guy a promotion immediately”? No, they just think you have no life and no boundaries.
The worst part? You are ruining the market for the rest of us. You set this toxic, low-SES expectation that everyone must be contactable 24/7. Because you want to play hero, now managers look at normal people who actually shut down their laptops on holiday and think, “Eh, why this one not proactive?” Excuse me? Leave is my legal entitlement, not a change of workspace.
Wake up your idea, please. Wake up your bloody idea! Let me break a hard truth to you: if the company business goes down the drain and the bosses need to cut costs, you are just another liability on the balance sheet. They will retrench your wayang ass without blinking an eye. Your “dedication” will be forgotten the moment HR drafts the termination letter. Nobody is going to build a statue of you at Raffles Place for cleared unread emails.
Please, for the love of God, disconnect. Delete Outlook from your phone. Go enjoy your Bintang beer and stop making the rest of the department look bad just to satisfy your own insecurity.
End of rant. Go back to work, those who are actually paid to work today.