The worst (best?) auto-reply I’ve ever seen
I challenge anyone to share a more offensive auto-reply than this one. I’m not entirely sure what message this person is trying to convey, but the message I’m reading is, “I don’t mind wasting your time by asking you to read this entirely superfluous email note to tell you that I don’t want to waste my time reading what could potentially be an important email from you.”
The best/worst part of the email? The sender suggests sending a text message an alternate method of communication in case what you orginally sent was important, but then doesn’t include a phone number.
Bonus challenge: Can you guess what the sender’s profession is?
January 20th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
I like the spirit of the idea, but if you want to set those kind of expectations I don’t think an auto-reply is the way to do it.I want to go with "Social Media Guru", but I don’t think any social media gurus are clever enough to want to get off email. However, the auto-reply makes it hard to tell. Actually, I bet it’s a designer. Maybe a photographer.
January 20th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
For the challenge question, I would guess someone in communications or sales. "lead times" sounds very fishy. Also all the exclamation points (although I do it too!)
January 21st, 2012 at 4:38 am
The message being conveyed is that the just read the Tim Ferriss book, The Four Hour Work Week, or reviewed his blog: http://goo.gl/r5EP