out of office message
Thank you for your email! Unfortunately, I am out of the office today! I will not be returning until next week!
Your email is important to me! Well, let’s be honest, it’s not that important. In fact I could care less that it’s sitting there in my inbox. If your request is urgent or time-sensitive… uh, deal with it. You’re a grown up, you’ve gotten yourself this far in life, right? Surely, despite your hysterical screeching, whatever it is can wait until next week.
I have to tell you, I won’t be thinking about work much at all! In fact, I will be a thousand miles away from here, and all too happy about it. I’m going to see some old friends and some new ones, and I’m going to walk barefoot in the sand, I’m going to eat some REAL Mexican food (or at least as real as I remember it growing up), and I’m going to be looking at a lot of comic books. Also, there will be drinking.
I will attend to your email upon my return to the office. And, well, that’s another lie, isn’t it? Because chances are there’s going to be quite a few stacked up in there, and it will probably be another week before I even think about replying. Again: deal with it.
Cheers!
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happy vacation!
That all sounds completely reasonable for an out-of-office message. People who think otherwise can suck it.
kat, thanks! Stay tuned for some pictures. (I know there’s nothing more boring than other people’s vacation pictures but I’ll try to keep it interesting.)
sir, I already knew I liked you, this comment just added to the high regard I hold you in.
I’m on vacation starting tomorrow too! Only I already told my job to suck it for the whole summer, so I can’t leave an abrasive out-of-office-message now. Damn. I’m so disappointed! Have a great week!!!
Yay! Have fun geeking out!
One of my co-worker’s away message literally says “please resend your message when I’m back in the office”. And to force the issue he put his Inbox over quota so that our messages wouldn’t be delivered ahead of his return.
Smart cookie. Perhaps a fired one, but I doubt he thinks being fired is more important than being clever.
I’m on vacation today! It’s my birfdy.
You are heeeere. You are heeeere.
Yanno, in case you were lost.
Have a great vacation. Wish I could walk in the sand. Oh, yeah, I could here in washington but it’s just not the same as in cali.
Makes me really want to email you. No, seriously….really. A lot.
Got you in my feed reader now. I am no longer an ass. It was great meeting you last night!