Receiving work messages on weeke

第一次参加辩论，我作为正方三辩和结辩，从备稿到三次小组讨论一次排练，最后呈现还算满意，酣畅淋漓。每次尝新，不在乎表现有多好，那份勇气沉淀了自信。年轻的同事们都好有才，努力让自己保持活力。

Preparation for a debate.

简单记录队友的论点：

正方一辩：

1. Appreciate boss who care your weekends and personal life, personal principle and motivation, urgent matter in long holiday happens. problem solving makes me happy and relax. e.g. enjoy free demurrage

Why you do not have a back up? same in holiday, not knowledgeable. Other people might not know how you deal with in the past, back up is busy. No backup in weekends.  

2. high tech supports my flexibility, and 

3. My job is important to support my life, colleagues are like friends. will help in urgent case. 

正方二辩：

1. Solve efficiently, save time in Monday, your work

2. Challenge work efficiency, Work is endless, need time to reflect, summary and improve,

3. Priority is not determined by time but by importance. responsible person, relax and enjoy the rest of time

4. young people, don't be naïve to think separate work and life

正方三辩：

Receiving work messages on weekends or during holidays, Should I reply? Of course yes!

1.Truth be told, I seldom receive work related message out of working hours. So if I receive it, it means it's very urgent and I will definitely reply.

Let me give you one example, how productive and necessary it is to handle an emergent issue in your vacation. Someone reported iPhone4's reception issue, meaning no signal, when Steve Jobs was on vacation with his family. He returned immediately to deal with it. As a result, he smartly claimed that every wireless phone and solve the crisis.  

2. If you don't reply, you might be replaced by someone.

My husband works overtime frequently, and they receive phone calls in the weekend just like workdays. If he doesn't reply, someday not too far from now, he will be replaced by someone who is willing to do so. 

We are so lucky that we don't receive urgent work message all the time. So when it comes, I will definitely reply. It gives me sense of fulfilment, being wanted, and job security. I care my job. 

3. It's about Given and taken.

Guess you all receive "Design your day" email. Our company trusts you are accountable to the business result and give you flexibility on how and when you work. As a return I would give my flexibility to work if I receive work messages on weekends or during holidays that need my immediately attention. We can't just ask company to give us flexibility to deal with personal things in weekdays but not willing to deal with urgent work on our weekends.

I do so because I care my job. I show my accountability to business results. I trust it is a rewarding choice for better life as well.  

结辩 In Summary

In our company culture, it's not required to work during your weekends or holidays, but sometimes urgent things do happen. (以下斜体是准备的现场临时改了，针对对方的论点压力导致健康问题，长时间工作导致低效，周末回复导致有毒的环境) Show your care to your work is very positive thing to your colleagues. Sometimes I ask my boss, how I can get other people's attention quickly, he tells me, you just need to reply as quick as you can when someone needs you. So when you receive the message, that means they need you urgently. This is our culture. If they don't need you urgently, they will do so. They will not send you a message in your weekends, they will not bother you. So only when it is very urgent, so when you receive, pls reply, we are one team, we work for our company, and for our future. So pls care your colleagues.    

If it does happen, pls reply.  

1. If you reply, you should think you should reply. In my opinion your mind should match your action, otherwise it might cause disorder in the long run. You should follow your heart. 

2. It's about Given and taken, Your flexibility on weekends can help you better enjoy the flexibility during your weekdays.

2. In responding to an urgent case, you can achieve best business result.   

3. You will win the trust from your colleague. 

So pls reply as it's the best choice to the requestor, to your business and to your own career development.

I will reply and hope you do as well.

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because I care, I should reply.

Points to be prepared

already too hard in weekdays

Your problem is workload, not to reply a message or not. Maybe it can save your Monday. 

I reply but I shouldn't

If you think you shouldn't reply but you do, how you can do it well? In my opinion your mind should match your action, otherwise it might cause disorder in the long run. You should follow your heart. 

I don't reply

You can choose to lie down, but that can't bring any benefit to anyone, it doesn't do any good for your future. 

反驳点，I don't have important thing. How do you know that?

I can recall two cases. One was during our national holiday, I received a call from my Indian colleague who need a customer response urgently when I was in my car with my family, I told him I would check at night when I arrived the hotel, and I did. The other was in Spring Festival, when I was in a big gathering in my hometown, I received a working phone call and went to a quiet place and answered the call.

欲速则不达，不周全

not related to when you reply, but your experience and capability. 

If you never work overtime, how dare you go to fitness center and enjoy all non-work related activities during your working hour?

Workplace change, why we need mobile.

Let's see some data:

Your attitude at work decides your income. The bigger the problem you could solve for your company, the higher your income is. You could never expect the problem just come in your weekend. 

月薪2万：老板说啥就是啥吧，给钱就行。

月薪3万：老板说什么都是对，如果有人错了，那一定是我。

月薪5万：996就像呼吸一样自然

月薪8万：办公室里的甲醛都让我着迷。

月薪10万：我不需要下班。

月薪50万：公司就是我家。

月薪100万：公司的方向，就是我活着的意义。

CEO doesn't reply

Only one CEO, some one will help him reply.

Lack of productivity

When I handle I still focus and it's very productive. The choices is on your hand. But most importantly, you've got to determine whether it's truly important or not, not to determine whether to reply or not. You need to reply based on your judgement, not ignore. And if it's really not important, you can choose to reply in the mid of night before you go to bed: sorry I've just seen your message, I hope there is no urgent matter, what's up? And then turn off your phone and go to sleep.

Priority is not related to weekend or not.

Freedom off work

It won't destroy your freedom off work. No one says you must reply immediately! It's all about your own choice to better benefit yourself and others, your coworker. Do you put a like in your coworker's friend circle after work? If yes, how you could explain not to reply her or his message? You want to keep good relationship with your coworkers. The best way is to reply their message instantly.

Coworker is like friend, if it's urgent and need your help, in my opinion, we should reply.

More freedom after solving an urgent case.

Responsible person.

Ruin your whole weekend and be on-call (standby)

Of course not, how you can switch from weekend to workdays. A message should definitely not ruin your day. If your are in really important moment, a romantic moment or a wedding, I believe you have no chance to see it. If you see it, that's so rare situation, we don't want to discuss here. Or you could simply reply a emoji (facepalm) to express your emotion. Your colleague will know it's not a good time.

该你回的重要紧急的事，不要视而不见

You can always compensate your non-working hour. 

Let the bad option disappear

Not to reply your colleague's message will not solve the issue. You could avoid work related message by arrange your work properly, by your backup during your vacation, by choosing a job without emergency situation, or even by wealth freedom so you don't have to work, not by ignoring a work message.

If you can disconnect yourself from internet, you could sperate your life from work.

Love your work, work for better life

You don't even want to reply a message? Do you hate your work? You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you hate your job, your question is not to reply the message or not, is to find a new job. If you haven’t found what you love to do yet, keep looking. and Don’t settle.

Separate life and work

Learn how to quick switch your working mode and leisure mode.

Fitness center, medical center lecture about family relationship etc. all these benefit my life, and company believe they offer these service can better benefit employee for a better work. Same as a message at weekend, it will benefit my work and not mess my life.

Do you all agree what we are doing now is not our duty work but fun?

After this fun activity, we will switch to our work mode right away.

You might argue this EOT is work, this is to develop English skill. Well company pay you to help your grow, improve your physical and mental health, if you don't do any good to business, do you think that's sustainable?

You have many ways to deal with the message, ignoring it is the last choice. You might compromise a bit of your personal time, but remember that compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise. I believe your reply in a emergency situation will doubly reward you, not asking you more, do you?

I believe there is no despotic landlord Zhou Ba Pi here in our company.

Do you work overtime? If yes, someone is the same as you, how exciting!  Someone works as hard as you, he or she could be a great partner in your career development. How you could leave him ignored.  Do you spend time to improve yourself for a better work? A message at weekend might be an opportunity to demonstrate your value at work, why don't catch it?

反驳点，不想和爱加班的人工作。

You can choose who you can work with, but I can't. Can you choose a customer who only work in weekday?

There is a prerequisite of this question, is that you have seen the message, and you need to decide to reply or not? There are some many ways to reply the message, and the last choice is no reply. Someone sends you a work related message out of working hours. He or she is working overtime. If you don't reply, he will keep waiting and keep working overtime. That's terrible. I could be as simple as, I will reply you on Monday, or a emoji, all is better than no reply. You might say, if you reply, it might not be as simple as a message, it could end up with more people involved, more time consumed. Come on, who doesn't want to end a work related issue as quick as possible in your non-working hours? Who wants to work overtime if it's not important？ I might stop the chain for further involvement on other colleagues. It's time to show my value. If it's really important, can you ignore?

To be deleted.

has the issue and it's due to how you hold your phones. It lost connectivity when holding the iPhone 4 in a way that blocks the lower left corner of the device, but change it will solve the issue. Apple would deal with all returns.

Apple didn't recall iPhone 4 and no people returned iPhone 4 and it was one of the most classical iPhone. 

If Steve Jobs didn't came back to solve the issue, it could a crisis for Apple. 

Even I don't receive work message, my mind will go for important thing from work in my weekends. I'm willing to deal with important work so I can't calm myself down.