Typically, TPOL’s Out of the Office post consists of the following: “I’m out of the office. Good day.” I never thought people actually read the content in the office autoresponders. I learned that is not true my second year at the University of Michigan. As a joke, I put, “I’m out of the office in the Cayman Islands. Should you need further assistance, please contact my secretary.” I neglected to turn off the responder.
Sleeping in the back of my economics statistics class, I heard the professor say, “Someone requested an overhead projector for their project, but when I responded, the email said to contact the secretary as the individual was in the Cayman Islands.”
I raised my hand to acknowledge that I wrote the message.
Which brings me to today’s out-of-the-office message. I am out of the office in Trinidad for Carnival. I don’t know if I’ll discover the same bliss as I did in 2019 (see Last Minute Trinidad Carnival Guide! Everything You Need to Know And Stuff You Will Figure Out On Your Own!), but I will find out. In the interim, you can contact my secretary should you need further assistance.
For those curious, I received a B+ in that course. The theme of my project was “Is Disney in Decline?” Fast forward decades later, and the answer is still TBD.
did you actually use the overhead projector?
Yes, only person to do a presentation.