The total disregard for out of office replies is OOFC

I want people to email me if they have a question or need something regardless of if I am in the office or not.

I don't stop sending emails when OOO and don't expect people to either.

Your's or mine inbox is up to you how you want to handle.

My ooo lists my cell and says text me if urgent

Great test of who has reasonable boundaries

I have zero issues with people keeping me on emails or even asking questions while i'm OOO as long as they aren't being pushy for a reply. I'd rather not come back from vacation and be oblivious to whats going on.

I also understand that for some they don't want to be on the email chain about the mcflurry machine being broken every day also get BabyDik's complaints about the mcflurry tech not being on camera to walk him through the repair.

I’m not giving every random a-hole who emails me my celly. Screw that.

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A problem has fallen to my lap because someone waited until last minute to request something and basically pretending the person doesn’t have an auto reply on. Based on the replies so far some people don’t believe in basic courtesy

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How is that your problem?

So what you are saying is that someone that works for or with you disregarded an OOO, and instead of reading the OOO and contacting the next in line they continued to email the OOO expecting the OOO to take action?

Just want to have it teed up for when you get back or when you have a quick second.

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I’m referring to continue to follow up and disregard that a person is out of town when their auto reply says they are out. A problem has fallen to my lap because someone waited until last minute to request something and basically pretending the person doesn’t have an auto reply on. Based on the replies so far some people don’t believe in basic courtesy

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It’s not even clear what you’re complaining about.

At first it sounded like you were annoyed about receiving follow up emails when you’re out of office. To which I would say.. if you’re so bent out of shape about it, just don’t check your email.

Now it sounds like you’re complaining because Person A sent Person B multiple emails while they were out of office, received OOO replies but continued to wait for Person B to respond, and now you’re rushing to do.. something?.. because Person A ran out of time.

That’s an oddly hyper-specific thing to complain about as being “out of fricking control.” It also sounds like an issue of stupidity rather than lack of courtesy.

I will say this, though: People need to think about their out of office replies before they leave for vacation or whatever. If your automatic reply doesn’t have a return date (or says you’ll be back on 1/6/25 because you forgot to update it from last time), people have no idea whether their issues can wait until you get back. If your automatic reply says “please allow additional time for responses” without giving the name or contact of your backup, people may assume that means you actually intend to check your email and respond. If you simply set your “status” to out of office with no auto-reply, people have no idea whether you’re at a dentist appointment or on a beach in Cabo.

You might need to know what happened while you were out.