#32

My boss makes me put on an out of office reply when I’m working off-site, even though I’ll be replying to emails as normal. Annoys me as it creates false expectations for when I actually am out of office.

#33

Might start putting one on everytime I go to lunch ‘if you want me I’ll probably be in Pret’

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#34

Have a friend/colleague whose out of office says he’ll ‘read the email’ on his return. Absolutely no promise of doing anything beyond that. Great tactic.

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#35

Also, if she emails me and Ive forgotten to put one on, she’ll send another email saying ‘do you have an out of office on?’ Clearly I don’t, you passive aggressive micro manager.

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#36

A few people at my place have started using “I’m out of the office until xx. If your email is important, please resend after that date.”

Wankers.

#37

Wow that’s really unprofessional - “I’m basically going to ignore it unless you nag me”

#38

Yep. I guess they just delete everything when they get back, which is kind of tempting…

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#39

Fuck this. Whole thread is making me angry.

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#40

Oh gosh, that’s just made me properly angry. That sort of person will then send an email to the whole team:

“Just a gentle reminder could all staff please make sure they put their out of office on”

(Micro managers usually have shite punctuation / grammar skills, just to rub salt into the wounds).

#41

The worst is when you get back then at 9:05 someone email you “your out of office is still on”. FUCK OFF DICKHEAD

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#42

It’s slowly driving me insane. Apparently every person who’s ever worked in this team has complained to HR before or as they’ve left.

#43

Just got this delightfully minimal Out of Office reply.

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Who knows when they’re coming back?!

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#44

I got one of these once (think I mentioned it in this thread? can’t be fucked to check). Quite frankly wish I had the balls to do it myself

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#45

When you pretend to be your lesbian friend’s boyfriend to her religious dad and then he keeps on emailing you to see how you are

#46

I was away for 3 weeks once and did it

I think it’s totally fair enough if you are away for a while (and have a delegate in your OOO they can contact for urgent stuff). 90% of stuff that was super important 2 weeks ago is not important anymore

#47

oh, think I replied to the wrong person

I meant the whole “I’m not going to read your stupid e-mail LOL” style of auto reply

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#48

I don’t do this but also don’t think I’d be annoyed by it either.

I think it depends who/what they do too, some agency partners we have do this if they’re at conferences or in workshops for more than half a day because they know some people do expect short term turnaround.

I always forget to put my out of office on which can similarly probably be quite annoying.

#49

This one is a bit under zealous for me:

“I am currently working on my Easter Holidays from Good Friday 2nd April returning to work on Monday 19th April.”

What does it mean mayte?

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#50

my old boss used to encourage us to do this, was pretty good

#51

Can only presume it’s a botched edit update to a previous OoO that used to say ‘I am currently working from home…’. 🤷