My bank still does that, and it seems to serve a good purpose there–I appreciate knowing if I should call someone else to get things done that day.
A ‘Type A’ who can’t ever fully switch-off from work… at least they’re honest about it!
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A couple work friends and I banded together years ago to fill each others’ voicemails so it would be impossible to leave us new voicemails.
Our Public Service Announcement: Each year, Americans leave 700 million DAYS of paid time off on the table. Stop and think about how many great out of office reply opportunities are missed because of this!
When we were working from home (we’re mandated to be back in the office now), my voice mail message was something like “I check voice mail, but if you want a faster answer, please send me an email at [email protected]” And it’s amazing how much more to the point emails are than voice mails! Much less “Well, this is unusual (it’s not) and needs the whole backstory (it doesn’t)” and 15 minutes later getting to the actual question (“can I do this thing that a regulation clearly indicates I can’t do”)
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I remember a phone tree that at the end of the normal boring options there was “To hear a duck press 8”
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There was a lot of pushback on this, discussion about how big a risk was that really anyway, people saying that John could word his out of office in such a way that people didn’t have to know he was actually away, and if something really was an emergency people would like to know that they have the opportunity to “direct queries to Sam or Dean” so they could be actioned, or make the judgement call that something could wait for John to return.
My grandboss used to put in his OOO: ‘I’m out of the office. If you need x or y, contact Andy or Jane. They know stuff.
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Mine said this when I was in the hospital and I didn’t know if I’d be back in two weeks or six.
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