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[QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 5079726, member: 39"]
Wanted to get everyone's thoughts on this as it is something that I have been thinking about.

Have a relatively new supervisor (7 months or so), and have had repeated situations where he texts directly to me after business hours, about inconsequential/non-urgent matters.

Latest situation involved a text at 7:55 pm about two different things, both of which could have been sent at any point the next day, followed up by a 7:01 am text the following morning about a more important manner but more of a "hey, next time we do this, would you mind adding this" sort of thing.

My question is: what is acceptable these days in terms of email/text/phone call conversations from supervisors, and how would you react in this situation?

The line of business we are in involves many nights and weekends during our busy season, but we are past that and now into a more dormant, regular 9-5-type cycle.

Do you continue to respond? Do you just not answer until the following day until the business hours start? I have tried that, and it has not changed much. I just find it very presumptuous that your worker would want to engage at all moments of the day -- especially when you know the worker has two toddlers (5 & 2) at home. I also fear that with the new supervisor, if you don't show that you're invested by communicating at the time he does (and what invested means to one person to the next varies, I get that), then you aren't going to see the type of career progression you might want.
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