Out-of-office emails used to be a pre-vacation afterthought, but workers now are putting more humor into their auto-responses.
TikTokers are sharing and rating the most creative OOO messages they've seen at work, from the funny to the sarcastic. Videos of the quirky office humor raked in millions of views and thousands of comments.
"On vacation. Hoping to win the lottery and never return," one message read.
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"ERROR 404: Employee not found," another employee wrote.
The newest wave of employees entering the workforce, Gen Z, is getting credit for popularizing the trend of OOO emails with more pizzazz.
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"Xennial here thinking Gen Z's doing all the things I've dreamt of doing. Kings and queens changing work culture," a commenter wrote.
"Millennial me- 'I am so sorry that my absence has created an inconvenience for you. I can't wait to be back and I'll never take a day off again sorry,'" wrote another.
Others discussing the same video called out the responses for being "quite unprofessional."
The account that posted the responses belongs to fuel company Oilshore, which responded to critics by clarifying its own policies.
"Rather than 'unprofessional' we prefer the terms 'relatable' 'authentic' and 'honest,'" Oilshore wrote.
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