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re: The total disregard for out of office replies is OOFC
Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:58 pm to JumpingTheShark
Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:58 pm to JumpingTheShark
My message lists who they should contact if they can't wait for me to return, and those people have instructions to pick up the phone and call me if there is something they can't handle.
I took my work email off my phone years ago and I'm not looking at it when it's my families time. In five years it hasn't resulted in anything but positive changes for me.
I took my work email off my phone years ago and I'm not looking at it when it's my families time. In five years it hasn't resulted in anything but positive changes for me.
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:09 pm to JumpingTheShark
If I email someone out of office, I just don't expect prompt replies.
Someone is welcome to email me when my out-of-office message is up, but I might not reply for a while. I would rather that than get nonstop emails the morning I get back into the office.
Someone is welcome to email me when my out-of-office message is up, but I might not reply for a while. I would rather that than get nonstop emails the morning I get back into the office.
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:09 pm to baldona
The situation is they continue emailing as if the person out of office is ignoring and not replying and continuing to ask if they got their email and can fulfill their request. Stupid person
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:17 pm to JumpingTheShark
I think this take is incorrect.
I want anyone that would have to email me to continue to email me.
My OoO though lets them know there will be no action taken from me so they better follow my OoO which explains who they should email with me being out.
But if they have multiple different things they are having to ask me about go for it. shoot those emails off. im not looking at my email until i get back in Office.
I want anyone that would have to email me to continue to email me.
My OoO though lets them know there will be no action taken from me so they better follow my OoO which explains who they should email with me being out.
But if they have multiple different things they are having to ask me about go for it. shoot those emails off. im not looking at my email until i get back in Office.
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:23 pm to JumpingTheShark
Other people’s work doesn’t stop just because you’re on vacation.
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:27 pm to ithad2bme
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I took my work email off my phone years ago and I'm not looking at it when it's my families time.
I’m conditioned to it I guess, but I cannot imagine this. It’d make me miserable at work letting shite pile up like that
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:31 pm to JumpingTheShark
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The situation is they continue emailing as if the person out of office is ignoring and not replying and continuing to ask if they got their email and can fulfill their request. Stupid person
Then that person’s stupidity sounds like their own problem.
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:32 pm to JumpingTheShark
People check their work email when they're not at work? Thats just dumb.
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:51 pm to Epic Cajun
Hence the thread but I guess we got a bunch of workaholics in here
Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:55 pm to JumpingTheShark
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basically pretending the person doesn’t have an auto reply on
Call them out on this.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:23 am to JumpingTheShark
As long as they are not calling me on vacation I am fine. It is customary for most professionals to at least scan emails while on vacation for pressing issues. You should set boundaries and remain on vacation, but you can also pivot on an issue and delegate a resolution.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 2:16 am to PGAOLDBAWNevahBroke
You should start replying with a modifed OOO that says:
Hello - Once again I am OOO, please read inital message
Next one: Hello - Twice again I am OOO, pleae read last messages
As many times as possible. Grand finale can be a click this blind link for more details , link them to some study about how uninterrupted vacay improves outcomes
Hello - Once again I am OOO, please read inital message
Next one: Hello - Twice again I am OOO, pleae read last messages
As many times as possible. Grand finale can be a click this blind link for more details , link them to some study about how uninterrupted vacay improves outcomes
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:18 am to JumpingTheShark
Can’t relate to this problem. When I’m on PTO I’m out, I’m not replying to shite. My OOO email auto reply includes my manager’s contact information as well as my equal in my department’s contact information. 99% chance you can ask them and get the same answer. My manager did have to reach out to me once with one specific question and it took me a grand total of 30 seconds to read her text and reply.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:19 am to JumpingTheShark
I don’t get this. Aren’t you out of office?
Ignore the calls. Ignore the emails.
If your position is such that you can’t, I hate to break it to you, you don’t get vacations. Hopefully you’re being compensated appropriately.
Ignore the calls. Ignore the emails.
If your position is such that you can’t, I hate to break it to you, you don’t get vacations. Hopefully you’re being compensated appropriately.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 7:20 am
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:27 am to JumpingTheShark
Do you have a backup listed?
My OoO lists a contact if they need immediate help. If not, they can wait.
My OoO lists a contact if they need immediate help. If not, they can wait.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:30 am to JumpingTheShark
If someone sends an email while I’m OOO, then multiple follow up emails while I’m still OOO, I won’t know about it until I get back. I don’t read emails when I’m OOO.
I state this in my OOO message along with my return date. I direct urgent requests to our team inbox. My team and my manager have my cell number if something is truly urgent.
I also state that I’ll respond in the order I received and I do exactly that. So that idiot is going to get a reply to the original email, then a copy/pasted “I’ve already replied to this” for every goofy follow-up he/she sent.
I state this in my OOO message along with my return date. I direct urgent requests to our team inbox. My team and my manager have my cell number if something is truly urgent.
I also state that I’ll respond in the order I received and I do exactly that. So that idiot is going to get a reply to the original email, then a copy/pasted “I’ve already replied to this” for every goofy follow-up he/she sent.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:37 am to JumpingTheShark
What’s even worse these days are the people who keep sending Teams messages while you’re OOO
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:37 am to JumpingTheShark
Corporate America is so much worse than it was just 5 years ago
Posted on 12/20/25 at 7:45 am to GreenRockTiger
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If my boss texts, I answer
Better be important or he'll be getting his phone blown apart on Christmas eve.
NEVER intrude on your reports' holiday time unless its financial life or death, or they will make your life hell until you leave.
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