Back to Search
Start Over
Out-of-Office Replies Offer Venue to Boast, Swagger and Mislead.
- Source :
-
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition . 4/13/2005, Vol. 245 Issue 72, pB1-B1. 1/5p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature. - Publication Year :
- 2005
-
Abstract
- Focuses on status in the workplace with a particular focus on the out-of-office e-mail reply messages. Description of an out-of-office reply and how it reminds others in the workplace the importance of the person; Excerpts from several automated-reply messages received by Pat Dugan, who perceives them as status symbols for the sender; Methods by which individuals can ignore e-mail messages, instant messages and cell phone calls; Perception of self-importance the out-of-office replies leave with others in the workplace; Humorous re-writes of the out-of-office messages, imagined by co-workers.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00999660
- Volume :
- 245
- Issue :
- 72
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 16718526