Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - MINI: When Is It Too Early To Call/Text/Email?

Episode Date: June 29, 2021

In this MINI edition of Jono & Ben, we ask when is it too early to call, text or email?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time for a bit of a show intervention right now. Now, is this about me embezzling all of the company's funds? Oh no, that's for another day actually. We're aware of that, the company's aware of that. The company's aware of it? Yeah. Okay, no one's brought it up with me yet? No, no, no, we're going to wait for that to...

Yeah, but that's coming up. This is to do with... It's more of an off-air intervention. Yeah, exactly. The police are involved. No, this is the one, a bit more light-hearted, but something that's all been brought to our attention. Basically, you're bringing it to our attention.

What's going on, guys? We all get up early for this show during the week, so we understand that. And nowadays, in the weekends, because you all get up early for this show during the week so we understand that and nowadays in the weekends because you do get up early during the week around about four o'clock-ish you don't get to sleep I'm getting

it's not as late as it maybe once was but Jono Pryor in the weekends he's a barrage of emails early in the morning Oh What do you mean? Work emails On a Saturday morning.

A Saturday morning. Early. Early on a Saturday. What are we talking about? It's six o'clock. Six o'clock, yes. Yeah. Now, during the week,

we get up at four, so you're probably going, oh, well, it's six o'clock. But this is Saturday. You know, this is Saturday. This is our day, our family day. And what you've got to realise is, you know, you get to the end of a long week,

and there's not a lot left in the tank. And so my partner, she doesn't get to spend any quality time with me on a Friday night because I get home from work. He's rinsed. I sit in my TV chair,

have my dinner and I'm asleep by 7.45. Dribbling and drooling by 8 o'clock. It's like a retirement home. And that's when my phone starts going bing, bing,

bing, bing, bing, bing. Saturday morning. At 6am on a Saturday morning. At 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning, your name is not good around home. Usually also all in caps lock too. It does. Hi, guys, how are you? Da-da-da-da.

I just thought for next week we could do this. Oh, my goodness. Who says you can or can't send off an erratic bunch of emails and a scattergun technique at 6 o'clock on a Saturday morning. Well, that's what we're trying to get to the bottom of right now. I love it also too because we do come here early in the morning and often you reply to people in the morning during the week at like five in the morning and stuff as well on emails.

I'm like, those poor people getting notifications on their phone about something that's probably not important right then. Oh, well, listen, guys, we get up so early Monday to Friday that I just want us to have the same joy. I miss you guys on the weekend. I want us to have the same joy at 6 o'clock on a Saturday morning. Julie, you're nodding your head in agreeance. Yeah, I guess so, but, yeah, like,

if I get emails at 6am on a Saturday morning, they're hanging over me until Sunday when I actually want to deal with them, you know what I mean? Yeah, great, great. This is what I want. Create a level of anxiety on the show. Oh, no. No downtime.

Yeah, listen, I don't, and I'm not really good. I'm not consistent with emails either. No. Monday to Friday, I'm shocking with them. But for some reason, Saturday morning, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. It's like it's your allocated email time and away you're going to go. Clear them all out. So what is the appropriate time to email?

Well, that's a good question. We'd like to go. Clear them all out. So what is the appropriate time to email? Well, that's a good question. We'd like to know that this morning. 6.30? Still too early. It's a weekend. It's a weekend. Would you email?

No. Yeah, I wouldn't email someone before 7, even during the week. I wouldn't imagine. No. Can you only email about work? Can you only email really within work hours unless it's an emergency? Is that the polite thing to do? I don't know. There was an email ironically sent out about email etiquette around the office.

No emails after five apparently. That's what they're saying. Oh, really? Around here. Okay. But what is the appropriate time? When can I send an email? And when can you call someone as well?

Yeah, Boss Todd, he calls me late sometimes. Like, you know, quarter past nine, I'm in bed and I'm like, why is he calling? Oh gosh. But I understand if it's something really important, you've just got to make that call. Yeah, but I mean, is it really that important that he's, you know, he's calling me to let me know that he's going to be in late tomorrow?

Listen, if it's after ten o'clock at night you only want to hear from a international phone scammer who hasn't read the world clock properly. Or, you know, a heavy breather. Those are the only two calls I want after 10pm at night. But in the morning, it's fair game. Not early on the weekend.

Let's chuck it out. Let's chuck it out, New Zealand. Not before seven on a weekend. When is it appropriate? After night. So if I got up and mowed the lawns at court, you'd be like, oh, he's mowing the lawns. It's the same thing.

When's an appropriate time to start emailing and calling people on the weekend? Okay, on the weekend. We'll focus in on the weekend. Or not at all on the weekend. If that's your opinion, give us a call right now. We'd love to hear from you. 0800 the hits, 4487. You can text us now. That's appropriate. We've opened it up.

When's an appropriate time to email, to stop emailing? Let's kick it off with Joanne in Auckland. What do you think? Hello. Yeah, welcome. Welcome to the intervention. There's an email. Well, now's clearly an appropriate time to receive emails, Joanne. Yes, you can actually settle an email to send it later.

I could do that on my phone with a text message some time ago, and I thought on Thursday last week, there must be a way that you can do that through Outlook. So I went on to Google and asked, and yes, there is a way you can do it. Yeah, I've heard of people doing that basically just doing that and then at the time that they've said it all those emails will come through but then the problem is you know come Monday

morning it's 7 o'clock when it's all go wouldn't you rather have it at 9 o'clock on a Saturday morning I'm just saying at 6 o'clock wouldn't you rather them sporadically coming through and one hit at 6am get them over and done with. Get on with your day.

What if your day hasn't started, I guess is the question. We'll go to Rosita. Welcome from Christchurch. Email etiquette. Your thoughts? The people receiving should use the do not disturb button. So any responsibility falling on the emailer's shoulders, the author of the email it's not on there.

No, I think that if they are in the zone, they should go for it. In the zone, hear that? Yeah. In the zone. Yeah. The people receiving, they can hit the Do Not Disturb button and then they can sort that out so that only urgent or phone calls can come through. Yeah, right.

So, Juliette, do I email too much? Do you think I email too much, Juliette? Is it weird? Yes. What we should do is we should schedule them all for like 11 and 12 at night for Jono to all come through so he gets the barrage at the other end of the day. What are all these things

coming through? We'll get Jimmy on from Karaka. Welcome, Jimmy. You want to get involved in this, don't you? Email etiquette? This intervention? Absolutely, John. What do you want to say? I'm in your camp. 24-7, mate. And if they don't respond, you text them.

If they don't respond to your text, you FaceTime call them. It's business time all the time, Jimmy. All the time, 24-7, mate. It's an international society we live in. Absolutely, yeah. Well, I do. I work with Asians and Americans.

So in the morning, it's all Americans. In the day, it's New Zealand. In the evening, it's all Asia. Yeah, see, Ben? It's all international. I don't work with Asia or America, but I can say that to make myself feel better. Business time

all the time for Jimmy. No off button. No off button. I think the hours of, you know, everyone used to say 40 hours a week. Those days have well gone, right? You know, the hours are all over the place now, right? I get that, but we're just probably more about, yeah, Saturday morning. Just to think that there was a time that you could escape us, Juliet.

Not now, mate. I'm stuck. We're in your phone all the time. Seven days a week, writing in caps. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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