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by luckydude 3943 days ago
What are these weekends of which you speak? :)

Just kidding, I'm in an 18 year old company so my weekends are pretty sweet. Driving tractors and stuff.

But when we started, and even now, it is rare that more than 6 hours go by and we haven't checked email. We are weird, we do pretty great support so people check emails on weekends to see if there is a big problem. If there isn't, off we go to some fun. If there is, rally the troops and get it fixed.

We're in the enterprise software space so it's sort of expected that we have some coverage on weekends.

All that said, if we do our job right, weekends are pretty boring. Which is why we peer review everything and regression test everything. Even with that some stuff slips through but not very often. We did a .0 release 6 weeks ago, found one bug, about to push a .0.1 release out the door. Boring. Which is how I like it.
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cpncrunch 3943 days ago
My situation is similar. 18-year old company. At weekends I check email occasionally, but don't reply until Monday unless it's an urgent issue (which it generally isn't).

There generally should never any need to do any work on weekends unless it's an unusual situation. You're just reducing your overall productivity if you work too much. Having said that, sometimes I do work on problems over the weekend just for the fun of it.

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semicolondev 3943 days ago
Emails are very tempting. I am on the same boat but, I have been working with a remote team and usually happen to work a lot during weekends because of timezone issues. Working with 5 year old company (remote), bootstraped and I recently moved to Bay Area. Was wondering how it goes with other founders here. Thanks for writing.
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cpncrunch 3942 days ago
For me it is mostly support, so it tends to be questions like "how do I do this thing that is explained in the FAQ that I didn't read"?

If it was questions from colleagues then I might reply, although it would probably depend on the situation, and I certainly wouldn't want there to be an expectation that I would reply quickly to any and all emails. (I don't have any colleagues, so it's not an issue for me :)

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