Brisbane – After a relaxing festive break where local network administrator Joseph Edmondson was told to not check his work laptop and delete the Slack app from his phone he walked into the office unaware of what awaited him.
As he entered his password and the apps loaded an icy chill ran down his spine. He stared in disbelief as his browser displayed 132 unread emails, with many having subjects such as URGENT, PLEASE ACTION ASAP and CAN YOU GET BACK TO ME BY 3 JANUARY??
Mister Edmondson, who has a lot of annual leave saved and was urged to take time off, despite his team being back since last week, was apprehensive about this but was assured by his manager that time off will be nice to reset.
Tensions escalated when he logged onto Slack, and was welcomed with 248 new messages. A quick skim of these messages were confirmed as being urgent in nature with Mr. Edmondson’s assistance required as a matter of urgency.
He then put his headphones on indicating him not to be disturbed, exhaled a loud audible sigh, and got back to it.