As a community manager one thing you never have a shortage of is email. It forms a huge part of my average day.
So by extension I get to see a lot of away/out-of-office messages. This one I received just this week and it’s my absolute favorite:
Subject: He’s gone, real gone
Body: Hi! I’m on a humanitarian mission to rid the vacation resorts in and around Tulum, Mexico of cell phones and Tequila.
I should be returning to the world of the working somewhere around September 19th.
If you need to get in touch with me, I suggest carrier pigeons or a hand-written note in a bottle, dropped in the gulf of Mexico. I will likely not be responsive to anyone who is not offering me some sort of appropriate beverage in person until I return.
Cheers, and safe travels to all.
Totally going to plaigarise that the next time I need an away message…
Comments
There are 3 responses to Abwesenheitsnotiz
Thursday, 2nd October 2008 9:16 pm
Oh, I am *SO* going to totally plagiarise your idea on plagiarising that email!! Superb!!
And you can thank Simon Young for pointing out your post on Facebook, too!
I’m just about to tweet it…
Cheers,
Lee
Friday, 3rd October 2008 4:49 pm
It is brilliant isn’t it
Thanks to Simon!
Tuesday, 6th January 2009 9:07 am
I see a rash of agave-based OOOMers hitting mail boxes soon. This is sheer brilliance – but do you see what you’ve done?? Remember the great tequila scandal/shortage of 2006?