Thanks for your email. Please expect a delay in response due to a medical emergency. In case of urgent queries, please reach out to me on my cell or to my colleague at [email protected].
I’ve heard “please respond at *your* earliest convenience,” but never the other way around.
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I deal with this all day. I feel like some property management companies make their managers announce when they’re going to use the bathroom via auto-reply.
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Agreed. Every time you are in a meeting is overkill. For some people they are never not in meetings.
Also, IMO, it’s putting the burden of knowing and managing your schedule on the other person. You expect them to be paying enough attention to you to remember when you come back and to resend their request. That’s not reasonable.
Yes. We do it that way in part because someone might be at a satellite office but out of OUR office and still be able to access emails, OR they might be completely offline at the beach. Saying you’re not answering emails can be helpful.
As with a regular cold email, the best way to utilize your out of office message is to offer something of value to your client. So if you’re taking a vacation right after the launch of your newest feature or after finishing up on that huge blog post, linking to them may prove to be a very good idea. Explain why that content is useful and the person who contacted you about their thoughts.
And although my colleague had mixed feelings about her own parents joining that population in Florida, she couldn't be too upset when her dad suggested flying down from Boston for a Red Sox spring training game.
It seems that yoga pants are taking over our closets these days, replacing jeans, slacks…
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This particular message is too freakin long and it makes me watch it, too. Har har, thanks for wasting my time.
“I am out of the office until X date. Your email has been deleted unread. If it is still important, please resend it after my return.”
But some of us just aren’t as lucky. Or if we’re traveling during the winter and heading up north — well, we’re going to run into some snow, aren’t we?
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That’s how I feel about OOO for when I’m only gone one workday. Very rarely am I dealing with anything that can’t wait 2 business days. I only set up OOO replies if I’ll be gone longer.