Oversharing colleagues -- OOO messages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh,adding details to the OOO automated reply adds context for the recepient and justifies the need to be out for the sender.

Plus it makes a great talking point for later.

Internal message is fine. External messages with too much information are a cybersecurity vulnerability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband says to always be very specific about having explosive diarrhea when you need to make up a reason to call out. He says nobody will ever ask any further questions.

When calling out sick (but maybe not REALLY that sick), ALWAYS say it's stomach-related. Guaranteed that people will read between the lines and that no one will want to be anywhere near you.

What weird offices you have. No one questions about people’s illness beyond “Hope you feel better”

[Anonymous]

I do think it's partially generational. I'm 40 and when I had I caught a stomach bug from my kids this winter, I posted "I'm sick" on the internal scheduling channel on Slack. Seems like common sense not to elaborate since I rarely call out sick.

A colleague several years younger posted a few weeks later that he was down with an awful stomach bug his daughter brought home from daycare, blah blah. Unnecessary details IMHO.

[Anonymous]

I just assume all the 25 year olds that call in sick for stomach problems are just hung over or just needed a day off and didn't foresee needing to schedule a me day 3 months out or whatever the policy is.

[Anonymous]

Who cares

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why I refuse to share my calendar. My outlook is personal, so I show up at my appointments.

Did you know that you can mark things as private? I do that for my personal appointments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just assume all the 25 year olds that call in sick for stomach problems are just hung over or just needed a day off and didn't foresee needing to schedule a me day 3 months out or whatever the policy is.

There's an Instagram account by this woman Jamie who manages people in their 20's and she films her conversations with them. You only see her, but hear the employees and they say the most ridiculous things. "I can't come in because of the retrograde. You know, in Mercury?" "I'm going to be late because yesterday my old best friend from 2nd grade posted a Tik Tok and I think she was sad so I'm going to bring her an oat milk vanilla latte."

A lot of them call in sick because they have "anxiety". Honestly, I've called in sick when I have a heavy period and just can't deal with going into the office, but I just say I have a migraine. Nobody wants to hear about blood.

[Anonymous]

The only time I did this was when I was getting married. I used to be kind of a workaholic and people knew I would likely respond to messages on vacation. I wanted to drive home that I was OUT OUT!

It wasn't that detailed...just "I am out of the office celebrating my wedding and will be back XYZ. If your need, please reach out to Larla Larlerson, otherwise, I will respond when I return."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only time I did this was when I was getting married. I used to be kind of a workaholic and people knew I would likely respond to messages on vacation. I wanted to drive home that I was OUT OUT!

It wasn't that detailed...just "I am out of the office celebrating my wedding and will be back XYZ. If your need, please reach out to Larla Larlerson, otherwise, I will respond when I return."

*if your need is urgent...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband says to always be very specific about having explosive diarrhea when you need to make up a reason to call out. He says nobody will ever ask any further questions.

We had an office assistant who went into some detail about this. She said she didn't want to take the metro for fear of a horrific incident. She was a larger lady, and I have to agree that it would have been unforgettable to anyone in the carriage with her.

What does her size have to do with it. If you were in a carriage with a 99 lb lady with explosive diarrhea would that be forgettable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sr. where I work and I put therapy down when I have therapy to de-stigmatize it. I also let it show on my calendar.

Most people here have zero idea how to read my open calendar though.

But other medical or personal appointments I put down as busy or hide the title (you can block busy and make the appt private). If I need to be out for longer than an hour, I block the time and tell my boss.

But I do see these away messages humble bragging about vacations as tacky.

Your attempt to destigmatize therapy is not having the effect you hope it is. Trust me on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband says to always be very specific about having explosive diarrhea when you need to make up a reason to call out. He says nobody will ever ask any further questions.

When calling out sick (but maybe not REALLY that sick), ALWAYS say it's stomach-related. Guaranteed that people will read between the lines and that no one will want to be anywhere near you.

YES!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OOO Monday from 2-3:30 for therapy to confront my beeyotch of a mother for why she wouldn't let me paint my room black even though I asked for two straight years.

Probably because you were as whiny then as you are today.

[Anonymous]

There's an Instagram account by this woman Jamie who manages people in their 20's and she films her conversations with them.

She's a comedian / content creator. Those convos aren't real.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean OOO like the email bounce back or do you just mean on a shared calendar?