1. In Outlook, enable your out-of-office message, set it to start right now.
  2. Click Save.
  3. Immediately see a pop-up asking if you want to turn that off.

WTF Microsoft? Who would ever do that?

I suppose someone might have turned it on for the wrong dates, but 99.99% of the time this is just annoying.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    441·
    9 months ago

    i have to agree to disagree here. in my career i have seen far, far too many people with their out of office message long out of date, and still running after they are back. this is a very useful feature that has cut back on those experiences significantly.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    … you haven’t met people… have you?

    do I agree that MS is infuriating because it knows that stupid people exist and they just assume you’re one of them? absolutely. but there are people that do that.

    There’s probably a better way to present the popup/query, mind, more like confirming things are accurate than “ARE YOU SURE?!”

    • IamAnonymous@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Not just testing, it used to be an issue many years ago. I’ve let people know that I’m still getting auto-responses when I know they are back from vacation. It happened to me too and I was reminded by my coworker. Also, the idea is you don’t check the your outlook when you are on vacation. It’s not designed for people on vacation who still check and respond to every email.

  • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Ideally, you would set this up ahead of time and won’t need to see it. But the thing that annoys me about outlook’s out-of-office thing is that by default, it just turns on for people in your organization. So if you forget to turn it on for everyone you can have an annoyed client wondering why you haven’t responded all week.

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    This is a clear case of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Some people will complain, either way. Personally, I prefer the current implementation.