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Is saying "Thank you for your email" in out of office reply de rigueur or weak?

It seems totally unnecessary, performative in that an automa...
impertinent brunch ceo
  02/19/26
Weak. Shortest possible message with just dates plus “...
ruby bawdyhouse
  02/19/26
CR except the part about not listing colleagues who are cove...
impertinent brunch ceo
  02/19/26
Nah only if the colleague is also negatively impacted by the...
ruby bawdyhouse
  02/19/26
?
impertinent brunch ceo
  02/19/26
Out of office replies are lame. I don't do em.
Yapping masturbator
  02/19/26
How does this work, in practice? You just have people lookin...
impertinent brunch ceo
  02/19/26
god everything about the office environment is so gay and un...
Pale stubborn shrine national security agency
  02/19/26
Of all the indignities of modern, corporate, office life, ou...
impertinent brunch ceo
  02/19/26


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Date: February 19th, 2026 9:26 AM
Author: impertinent brunch ceo

It seems totally unnecessary, performative in that an automated "thank you" isn't a real, sincere thank you, and inapplicable to the vast majority of emails, which I'm not thankful to receive.

In before "beep beep beep."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49679860)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 9:29 AM
Author: ruby bawdyhouse

Weak. Shortest possible message with just dates plus “responses will be delayed” no “here’s my co-worker you can bother” no “I’ll be checking periodically” just an implicit “fuck off I’m on vacation”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49679868)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:08 AM
Author: impertinent brunch ceo

CR except the part about not listing colleagues who are covering for you. That's valuable because (a) you should help facilitate work getting done in your absence instead of leaving people hanging and (b) you will come back to less work piled up if someone else does it while you're out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49679911)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 1:11 PM
Author: ruby bawdyhouse

Nah only if the colleague is also negatively impacted by the work sitting around. The requester if they are so fucked by your vacation can do their own leg work to get it reassigned. Listed colleague should be effectively “this person who knows I’m out also needs to get your shit moved along for their own purposes so talk to them.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49680349)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 1:24 PM
Author: impertinent brunch ceo

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49680399)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: Yapping masturbator

Out of office replies are lame. I don't do em.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49680374)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 1:25 PM
Author: impertinent brunch ceo

How does this work, in practice? You just have people looking for you getting increasingly MAF that you're not responding? Or, worse, you promptly respond while "away"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49680402)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 1:23 PM
Author: Pale stubborn shrine national security agency

god everything about the office environment is so gay and unnecessary. how did it come to this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49680396)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 1:26 PM
Author: impertinent brunch ceo

Of all the indignities of modern, corporate, office life, out of office messages is relatively small.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836235&forum_id=2#49680408)