Accommodating clients - Am I just being a grumpy grump

Saturdays and Sundays are our quiet days to get work cranked out ———- without client interruptions.  The building doors are locked and we don’t answer the phone.  We do make some rare exceptions from time to time - for good reasons.  Because you “have been really busy”, is not one of those exceptions.  Actually telling us that line could be endangering to your life ——————— do you really realize who you are talking to?  We haven’t been just a tad busy?🙎

My clients drop in unannounced all the time.  Also they'll drop in at midnight, 2am, etc. as "they know I'll be here".  It only bothers me when I'm in a meeting with another client.  But my requirement is that they bring me chocolate chip cookies.  No wonder my before and after pictures are reversed.  100 - 400lb.

I'm only available between 10am and 4pm. I had to do this, because of the different timezones as well as people wanting to work after their own office hours, which would mean their work with me sometimes started at 7pm my time. And, I still get the occasional 6:30 am phone call for a screenshare session on demand, because it's 8:30 am where they are, and they just realized they had a question I have to answer Now.

I do remember the one person that I thought was in Pacific timezone as Costa Mesa. She turned out to be in Costa Rica. Oops.

I am kinda accommodating... But that's in my DNA, I'm a woman, I raised four children single handedly, and I am used to juggling others' needs before my own. Not a recommendation, each has own modus operandi.

And you're answering your phone on Saturday?

And you don't have a voicemail message that says, "Call back Monday" ?

Then don't complain.  

i have always taken the position that clients need us

rather than we need them,tell them to take it someplace else

as you are on a tight schedule

that usually pits the fear of god in them

regards,LARRY

stay safe