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PSA: My sister told me to stop answering 5pm emails, and I finally tried it
My sister Kim, who does taxes from her apartment in Denver, kept telling me to stop replying to clients after 5pm because I was training them to expect me at all hours, and I shrugged it off for almost a year. Then a guy moved a Tuesday deadline to Friday 9am on a Thursday night, and I sat on the reply until 8am instead of jumping on it. Has waiting till morning ever backfired on you, or did it actually reset the whole thing?