What I learned from turning my ‘Out of Office’ auto-replies on for a month

Re:What I learned from turning my ‘Out of Office’ auto-repli... by spongle on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:30AM (#6475945)

You are probably perceived as a dick, as am I these days but it doesn't mean you are wrong. This is an unfortunate side effect of office politics and double-standards.

My particular perception switcher was when people started starting side conversations by forwarding JIRA ticket email notifications to me with comments etc and emails with ticket references in asking questions.

I rejected these with a simple filter [A-Z]{1,3}-[0-9]{1,6} with "write it on the damn ticket, peon" (in slightly friendlier language).

Everything turns up on tickets now and I get 4-5 emails a day compared to 80-100.

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Re:What I learned from turning my ‘Out of Office’ auto-repli... by zamalek on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @10:03AM (#6476185)

> You are probably perceived as a dick

While having a good relationship with your coworkers is an important part of being an employee; I am here to do my work. So if "I am a dick who gets stuff done" so be it :) .

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Re:What I learned from turning my ‘Out of Office’ auto-repli... by spongle on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @10:18AM (#6476301)

Spot on :)

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