120 degrees on the slab surface is a whole different animal than the air temp. Your hand trowel crew likely caught it at the right moisture window, but the power trowel on that mix will pull fines to the top and burn the cream if you're not running it light. We did a 5,000 square foot pour in Scottsdale last month, same split, and the power side had that gray washout until we switched to a lighter pan and slowed the RPMs way down. For anything under 3,000 feet, hand finishing is still the play, but you gotta have the right guys. Your knees will hate you either way, so pick your poison.

Honestly, that's just the universe's way of charging you a stupid tax for trying to fix things that ain't broken.

...but honestly, maybe that's the whole point. You set a boundary, you basically told them what time you're "off limits," and now they know exactly when to hit you if they want a quick answer. It's like putting a sign on your desk that says "I check email at 9 PM." I know it feels unfair, but what did you think was gonna happen? You train people to expect a response at a certain time, and they're gonna use that. The report was due Monday, but you answered at 9 PM, so now it's due at 9 PM. That's on you, not your boss. You could have just ignored it until Monday morning and said you didn't see it. Emails don't have to be read the second they come in. That's the real boundary, not telling people when you won't work, but actually not working then. If you keep jumping every time they toss a request late at night, they'll keep tossing. It's not about them pushing harder, it's about you showing them that the push still works. So yeah, maybe your Sunday reset died, but you're the one who brought it back to life with that reply.