My manager kept emailing me past 10pm expecting quick replies. So I started replying to every single one of his emails exactly 24 hours later.
my manager has this habit of sending emails at like 10, 11pm sometimes midnight. casual stuff, not emergencies, just things that could absolutely wait until morning. and there was always this unspoken expectation that you'd seen it and were on top of it by the time standup rolled around.
i never said anything. just started quietly implementing a policy of