{"id":490,"date":"2009-06-24T23:22:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T07:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-06-24T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T07:22:04","slug":"41-sending-out-e-mails-at-odd-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"#41 Sending out E-mails at Odd Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"emaillateatnight\"Accountants work a lot. This much is known. Since accountants don’t sleep much<\/a>, this entails a lot of irregular rituals – getting coffee 3 times a day<\/a>, never working out, and staying past the late night cleaning crew.<\/p>\n

Since accountants are always “working” throughout the day, they are constantly making phone calls, sending out e-mails, opening PDF’s, etc. The 2nd one in this list deserves special recognition.<\/p>\n

If you are working with an accountant, you should expect an e-mail before you arrive at your desk. You should expect phone calls or in-person visits in the morning for more questions. More e-mails will arrive throughout the early evening requesting things. Accountants take the simple concept of question & answer to the next level.<\/p>\n

If someone sends an e-mail at 7AM, it shows that they were there working early, right? Well how about another e-mail to their team at 9pm? That shows they were working late. Accountants manage to continuously send e-mails past midnight, past 2AM, and again before people show up in the office. In fact, accountants rarely see what is known as the sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the game of one-upmanship that accountants play to show their supervisors, coworkers, peers, etc. that they work harder (read: longer) than everybody else. Why send an e-mail at 8:30PM when you can send one at 11:23PM and show everybody your dedication.<\/p>\n

Accountants are amazing at this, because they will pretend that nobody notices the time stamp on their e-mails. Saturday at 2PM? Sunday at 11:57PM? Accountants act shocked when they are asked how late they worked, but deep down secretly, they have a self-important attitude because they were in the office at midnight documenting something while you were out enjoying life.<\/p>\n

So the next time you see an accountant, ask them how late they were working in the office last night. This will allow them to give you a nonchalant reply. You should act surprised and then amazed. By commending them for working so hard, this will improve your relationship with the accountant by more than you can imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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