8. "Hi, you've reached [your name]. I'm unable to come to the phone right now. But if you leave your name, number, and a short message, I'll be sure to call back."
Please note on [date], is [holiday name]. Our stores will be closed all day and will open at [time] on [date]. Have a wonderful holiday!
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I would very much like to meet him, and I don’t know if that proves or challenges his point…
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I’ll be out of the office on vacation for the next week. I will probably see your message because I don’t know how to relax and will likely respond if I feel that I need to help in any way. Otherwise, I’ll get back to you when I return. Thanks!
If you’re going to be on vacation for a week or two, then it’s essential you set up your vacation email. If you miss the odd day, the world won’t implode, but if people don’t know you’re away for a few weeks and they don’t know exactly when you’ll be back, or who they can contact in your place, you’re going to have some unhappy clients or customers.
Oh you see, I do that on purpose. That way I can use the same OOO message internally and externally. Anyone within our company can find us in the global address book. Anyone outside our company who has done business with my department has my email address & my manager’s.
You can get quite creative and figure it out by yourself. However, here’s an example.
Thanks for your email! I’ll be OOO from [date] to [date] and will not be accessing email during that time.
We have an office with a phone number and 4 people that work in it to specifically answer these inquiries.
The weather has changed, so I have decided to book myself a little break in the sunshine.
I can just about see having two OOOs: one for the actual leave time, and one for the first day you are back in the office, so people are aware you are digging yourself out of the emails and to please call or IM if it is time-sensitive.
I’m mostly back in my actual office now, but I went with “away from my computer between X and Z” a couple of times and just straight up “I am on annual leave between X and Z” a couple of times.
1. 1 The Scrooge. Hellooooo . . . You’ve reached the Ghost of Holidays Future. Whose future? Yours, of course! Let me show you what it looks like. Step this way.
Our auto-replies to outside people are two or three paragraphs long though, which feels ridiculous but is actually necessary.
There’s a video game that got released with hatch as in trapdoor translated as hatch as in escape from egg.
Plus the world of technology has moved on from answering machines (which is all voice mail is) so… nice vintage projector you got there