How many people do you get calling/texting you at any hour of the day and then get annoyed when you don't respond?

I find it extremely rude. It's like they don't think you have a life outside of this job and are just available whenever they feel like contacting you.

It's one thing I hate the most about this job. Just very disrespectful in my opinion.

I have someone who I've seen a couple of times do this and yet he thought it was perfectly acceptable to cancel with 1 hours notice 

I do say I am flexible with my working hours but that doesn't translate to being on call 24/7 
He has multiple phones and different numbers too which I find unnerving and he can never get off the phone when he's here either. Just something else which is disrespectful.

If he's on his phone during booked time that's his choice, he's using up his own time.

I do recognise and experience the above, did have a few regulars used to think I was ignoring or telling them I didn't want to see them if I didn't respond quickly, or that there was something wrong, Some of this was because I respond very quickly, so when I cannot it's strange. Some of it is their insecurity. I even had a regular get upset I didn't reply when away on holiday, he had gotten the dates I gave him for my no contact holiday (I do have breaks, holidays, time off during which I am contactable) mixed up. Eventually went to my website saw actual dates but not after asking am I ignoring him.

I leave my phone on 24 hours a day mainly so I see the times people call and test and the stupid o'clock callers and texters and ignore them as they already showing entitled behaviour.
My working hours are advertised and I refuse to answer my phone at all when advertised as closed.

I also ignore regulars who text outside of working hours.

If I don't set my boundaries clearly then the clients will get confused easily and we all get passed off.  It's like puppy training. They'll get there in the end.

I leave my phone on 24 hours a day mainly so I see the times people call and test and the stupid o'clock callers and texters and ignore them as they already showing entitled behaviour.
My working hours are advertised and I refuse to answer my phone at all when advertised as closed.

I also ignore regulars who text outside of working hours.

If I don't set my boundaries clearly then the clients will get confused easily and we all get passed off.  It's like puppy training. They'll get there in the end.

I do the same as you for the same reasons. I will get back to my regulars though outside of working hours, people I know I like etc.

I just find it baffling that people have this level of entitlement when they don't even know me. Anything could be going on in my life!

They simply do not respect that we need days off like normal people! They must think this is just a hobby to us.

A new client wanted to call to discuss meeting up as he was a first timer. I explained I do not take calls on my day off. It is enough to deal with the admin 7 days a week though I did not say this.

If we took calls 7 days a week we would most likely burn out super fast and not even earn more owing to the high number of timewasters.

Just turn your phone off when you’re not working or ignore it if you don’t want to be disturbed. No one is beholden to clients or there phone

Yep, between the 4am "u free" messages and the 11am "u up?" messages it just seems like some men expect we're creatures of the night, not people with a sleep pattern that keeps us in line with our friends and families...

I clearly state my working hours on my ads and also a line that if I don't contact people out of the blue so if I'm unable to answer a call or text immediately I won't reply at all unless they give me a timeframe in which it won't get them in trouble. I'd say I get about 10% of messages with a window of time to reply and twice as many who send ""

Another pet peeve is the multiple calls or texts within minutes... like my guy, I'm clearly busy! At least give me 15mins to finish up an appointment or something. Once as I was seeing a client out I saw someone was ringing me so I answered as soon as I'd closed the door and the caller gave me a lecture on how I'd not get any business at all if I didn't answer the phone. I had 17 missed calls from him in the last couple of minutes! He was a pompous arse and didn't know what to say when I told him I'd had a cock in my mouth for the last 10mins and was raised not to talk with my mouth full!

They wouldn't like it if I answered the phone to line up my next booking while they're paying for my time, so why on earth are they so disrespectful to not only us but our other clients too?