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Q. Will students who stay on campus during winter break be impacted by this change?
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The problem with that is people just don’t look at your signature. Whereas they are reasonably likely to notice the OOO message in the email subject header.
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Don't leave your sender guessing. Let them know when you'll be out and the date you'll be back in the office — not when you're returning home.
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The recipient may have filtering turned on that would reject the automatic reply;
Happy holidays! I am currently out of the office, with no email access. I’ll be returning on (insert date) and will get back to you as soon as I can. Happy holidays!
Please accept our apology for the inconvenience this may cause. We are thankful for your understanding.
Q. Are there any departments or clinics on the Health Science Campus that will be closed during winter break?
Proof that some people just Don’t Get It: in response to my out of office voicemail message directing callers to contact my co-worker for anything urgent, a woman left the following message on MY voicemail: “Co-worker, I am having this issue, blah, blah, blah. Please call me at X.” Yeah, I–not co-worker–got the message a week later when I returned.
I do this because my industry’s norm is that people check their email on vacation, at least once or twice, but I don’t do it. I don’t have work email on my phone so it’s technically true.
If the person keeps you on the message thread in which they then contact someone else (ideally, the person you stated in your out of office message as the one who’s handling urgent issues in your absence), you are literally kept in the loop and can see for yourself that all was handled when you get back. Of course, this works even better if you check the most recent items in your inbox first when you get back.
Even if it’s for a short amount of time, an autoresponder helps you enjoy your time off from work.
Oh man, I mostly loved my European colleagues, but the “we were gone for a month, why haven’t you done more?” made me so, so stabby. That or the whole “hey, you really need to work harder to get this done by June 25th because none of us are going to be around to take care of our part by July 1.” So, I’m working 65 hour weeks for a month so you don’t have to spend 8 hours of your vacation working? Sounds fair.
“I am spending time with family today – some things are MORE important than work.”
Thank you for your message. I am currently out of the office, with no email access. I will be returning on (Date of Return).