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Have you checked if it is really from Apple by looking at the mail headers?
If not it is just spam or in the last resort something harmful.
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Well the headers 'seem' to be genuie but I have noticed some thing, if I try to Google anything Google appears not to work!
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At least here in Germany Google works. Even when searching for "Apple TV" 
But there were some delays this morning. Maybe the hiccup has moved to the UK.
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Seems to have cleared now...
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The type of mates that respond to mails @ mid night. This is sooo old school. It's "subtle" way to convey the bosses that they are so workaholic and running round the clock. They bloody slack the whole day and archive the mails for this mid-night cheap trick. I thought this particular species is long exitinct (I used to find these very often in my country long ago). But an young one in the team has freshly started it. I'm just giggling at all his mails timed at 2:00 am , 3:00 am in the night morning.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I get emails at midnight... Except I know those people are actually still fixing bugs! 
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Maybe he has setup a cron job to send mails at those times 
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Is the employee getting his work done?
Are the tasks assigned to the employee being completed by others during the day?
If the manager is worth his title, he will see that the employee is:
getting his work done (or not)
responding to emails at night
consider these items
act accordingly
So.... if you're not the boss and it is not affecting you directly, let him burn the candle at both ends.
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He does complete the tasks reasonably well. I was just joking when I said he was slacking. But I'm sure he can very well respond to the mails during the day. He's just proud of his late night responses. And I'm certainly not burning over this. I'm just smiling at this silly thing. He'll soon understand this a stone-age trick that every bosses once tried  , when he finds his own juniors do the same.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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This obviously bothers you so much that you have to post about it.
I send emails at 2am, if I can't sleep. I'm a senior software engineer at my shop. It's my f***ing job.
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The name suggests you'd definitely do. 
And the case with the original target is, when he's given enough time to respond during the day but he does only in mid night. And he doesn't deal with clients who are in the opposite time zones. It's sheer show off. And I'm repeating this for the 3rd time - It doesn't bother me. I just find it silly
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: if you're not the boss and it is not affecting you directly, let him burn the candle at both ends.
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And when he comes in the office? Maybe he is so old school fixing his bugs at afternoon and not getting ready.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Yes, I do; me, unfortunately. It all started through ambition and being accountable. I figured if I put in 200%, I'd move up the ranks. It didn't happen until I left the department and my work was divided up between 2 employees and 2 new consultants.
I am trying to quit and have gotten a lot better at my current position. Though, I will say I was on holiday recently in Thailand and received and email at 2 AM local time and logged in for nearly an hour to give support. However, I did put in for OT.
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Well yeah - the director of IT burns the midnight oil. But he doesn't expect the rest of us to do the same. Like my occasional 6:00 am emails: it's just the time that I'm up. By 15:00, I'm just a waste of space without food and nap.
That being said, in the past I've had managers that loved the feeling of a tongue on their backside. Even if they new the scam, it was the willingness to try to give that impression that they liked. Possibly because they knew you'd be easy meat in order to live up to your own perception of appearances.
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Yes me.
I e-mail at night. Part of my team is in Mexico and part in Malaysia. I'm often up late at night and supporting them, and I find it's easier to respond to my e-mail then, otherwise I come into 40-60 e-mails and it takes me the best part of the morning to get through. Nothing to do with sucking up, though sometimes I've had a drink and dread re-reading what I wrote in the morning. 
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I'm not sending emails at that time (it would serve no purpose), but I'm often working at that time. At 11PM to 3AM my brain is on fire being a night owl. I sometimes wonder in the morning, how the hell I figured that problem out.
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A while back when I didn't have a job I'd stay up until the wee hours of the morning and then sleep in, and I'd do the opposite.
I'd write any emails and then set up a job to send them between 9:00-9:30 so it seemed like I was a normal person instead of the vampiric night creature I really was.
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I woke up at three this morning, half an hour later still wide awake, got up, decided to do a few things on the computer, ended up replying to a few work emails.
I'm on holiday all week too.
Double suckup me.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It is easy to schedule mail to be delivered at certain time, just saying.... 
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What else are you supposed to do when you get up at 9 or 10 pm? Perhaps he's a night owl like so many other programmers (especially older ones that were forced into that mold due to mainframe availability).
Personally, I don't like to get up until the sun goes down. I think better at night and there are far fewer distractions. If I get up in the daytime, especially on an early schedule, I just drag around until evening and don't really get up to speed until after midnight. Note that I will be going to bed in a few hours. Staying up early! It really annoys me when I can't go to the bookstore at 3am.
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When the fit hits the shan around here, Chris and I can be exchanging emails at any time of day or night.
Hamster herding is tricky and dangerous work.
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Nope, we are bitching at each other strictly 9 to 5.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I'm a manager and I don't like receiving trivial email out of hours. Unless it's an emergency out of hours is your own time and not work time. I try to instill that in my staff as well. Things needs to be done but people welfare is very important for the long term picture of staff productivity and happiness. I have no desire to drive someone until they break. It benefits no one.
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Vunic wrote: The type of mates that respond to mails @ mid night. This is sooo old school. It's "subtle" way to convey the bosses that they are so workaholic...
Or that they figured out that they better catch up after the late lunch turned into an early happy hour and then they finally woke up after passing out from all the drinking.
Vunic wrote: But an young one in the team has freshly started it
Enthusiastic and nothing else to do after the game controller broke at midnight.
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