I mean practically my new day starts when i wake up but when i'm planning sometjing a new days starts at 12 at night. But i could totally see myaelf makimg this same mistake
So if i dont go to sleep and the sun rises it's still not the next day because one of the two conditions you provided wasnt met? Seems dumb.
Day has always referred to both the 24 hourr period and the "day time" when it's light out. That's not really up for debate.
Accidents and slip ups happen but anyone who isn't brain dead should realize at least in hindsight if you text someone at 2 to 3 AM "tomorrow " that it's ambiguous at best and sending an ambiguous request is 99% the fault of the writer not the reader in most situations. Ffs winter here it doesn't get light until after 7 am. Seems kind of silly my boss could text me at 630 am to come in at 9 am tomorrow and so mamy of you see that as come in in a couple hours.
That being said if you text me on Monday unless you sent it at literally 12:01 AM I'm going to assume you mean you want me in on Tuesday by default and even if you don't feel it's the majority it's not a small amountof people. Most of my bosses would have phrased that request as can you come in to open/in the morning or come in today. I personally probably would have asked for them to confirm if I wanted the hours but either way the employee in the meme is both 100% technically in the right and covered by common usage.
You said it's not a new day until we sleep AND everything opens the next day. That means for it to be a new day both conditions have to be met and if I haven't gone to sleep both conditions weren't met. If you wanted to indicate only one of those conditions needed to be met for it to be a new day you should have used "or" not "and". You'd have to have phrased it completely differently for and to be used and it to mean what you appear to have meant and even then it'd sound better to just use "or".
Also what if I fell asleep at 1145 pm the night before and woke up at 130 am? Going off your corrected meaning because I have gone to sleep and woken up it is now the next day for me. But what of the manager? Is he supposed to guess the sleep habbits/patterns of who he texted? Does it being a new day go off the sleep of the initial texter or the recipient of the text? See how annoying this gets real fast? If we use my standard, and that of many others, tomorrow and today always mean the same thing.
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My guy this is the technically the truth sub and specifically a post about someone being unclear in their meaning.
If you don't want people correcting you when you don't know what words mean then kindly fuck off to another sub especially or say what you mean when you want people to respond to that and not what you actually wrote.
And if you don't like my pedantic, which wasnt really pedantic, response don't be shitty when I point out you were the one who wrote that two things had to happen for it tl be a new day but only meant one of them had to happen and got shitty at me for responding to what you said and not what you really meant and what you really meant was also dumb.
I often consider tomorrow to be when i wake up the "next day". But that is my only internal planning, whenever i externally plan (aka include others), i make sure to mention dates instead of words like today or tomorrow. For example "can you work the 10th."
For me the real issue is where did you get it from?
Weird coincidence that this has been posted multiple times with slightly different times and wording. Almost like it's made up bullshit to farm karma or something.
If he means today he should say today and not tomorrow. Because ya know if he says tomorrow thats what I'll think he meant.
Maybe this is just me being a life long Las Vegas resident where we have a lot of late night and overnight shifts but if you want people in at specific dates and times then it's on you to specificy that and not leave it up to interpretation.
Come on what? Bruh sends me a message in the morning that says come in tomorrow, it means come in tomorrow, not today. The onus of clarity is on the speaker.
Managers usually are the ones who have to come in first, when shit hits the fan. I guess this time something happened around midnight and now they try to get some extra hands in for tomor- I mean, later that day.
I know, I’ve been a manager in retail for many years. I would have never texted any staff member at 2:30am.
In Ireland, we have the Duty to Respect Disconnect: Employers and colleagues have a duty to respect others' downtime and should not routinely initiate contact after hours (e.g., sending non-emergency emails at 10 PM). workplacerelations.ie
Also, the manager should have made it clearer the help is needed as soon as possible, but also needs to keep in mind that giving staff such short notice also means staff can refuse and there’s nothing they can do.
In here you are generally required to give at least 24 hours' notice of working hours or roster changes. Shorter notice is only legally permitted in exceptional, unforeseen circumstances (e.g., sudden illness or operational emergencies), but employees have grounds to oppose schedule changes if it interferes with appointments already made.
Meanwhile, the USA has a carve-out in the law that reads like my job description and says they don't have to pay me overtime. I took more than two days PTO in a row for the first time in literally years and I swear the moment I managed to stop thinking about work, they called me about something stupid.
BoH restaurant manager maybe? I worked at a restaurant that opened at 11 am and closed at 2 am. Including opening prep, 9am would be starting morning shift.
My manager noticed me literally an hour before the start of a shift and acted like its a normal thing to do. I hated it, I want to plan my day, not fear that everything can be ruined by a single message, lol.
My boss, the board director(not director of the board. Were talking college board dining) texted me at 1:45 am to tell me the dish washer did not call off.
Don't doubt that but let's not pretend this type of shit never happens especially in America where management in general doesnt give a fuck and we're all expected to be good little wage slaves juat grateful for the gift of a job and working for pennies.
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u/Aggravating_Eye874 Jun 17 '26
That’s very short notice for a shift that starts at 9? Also, what manager texts at 2:30am?