December 2015 Summaries

There are many creative ways companies and individuals tell their clients that they will be out of office during the holiday season, with some using humor to make up for the lack of immediate response. Examples include Abner Germanow's reference to a fictional Amish location with poor internet connectivity, Adam Larson's cruise ship Wi-Fi woes, Baxter Denney's robot auto-response, Stevan Arychuk's snowy Canadian getaway, and Paul Sokol's Troy McClure parody. These humorous out-of-office messages add a lighthearted touch to the traditional "out of office" emails that often contain generic responses or simply state that the sender will be unavailable due to vacation or other reasons.

Holiday seasons bring a surge of out-of-office (OOO) email messages, with some creative individuals at New Relic crafting particularly humorous responses. These imaginative auto-replies, penned by employees such as Senior Director Abner Germanow and Engineering Manager Adam Larson, range from whimsical excuses about poor technology access in Amish country to playful narratives involving cruise ship Wi-Fi costs and fictional scenarios with bears affecting internet connectivity. Other notable examples include creative messages by VP Baxter Denney, who uses a robot persona, and Stevan Arychuk, who humorously laments his Canadian snow-shoveling duties. The trend extends beyond New Relic, with figures like Gini Dietrich and Paul Sokol contributing to the collection of entertaining OOO messages, demonstrating that humor can effectively soften the inconvenience of temporary unavailability.