I’ve never found it to be overly taxing to be both to the point in an automated OOO reply and to embrace my time away:

It’s kind of weird to equate succinct with snarky.

Depending on your industry—law and finance come to mind—”having fun” with your out of office probably tells your supervisor that you might be happier in a different industry.

If you fire someone over an auto-reply that doesn’t contain cuss words or slurs you’re a bad person.

yeah - perfect if you work for the government or the post office - realistic advice should be - you know - realistic. One of my folks puts a snarky automated reply that rubs customers [you know the folks paying your salary] the wrong way then they may find their tenure abbreviated.

Agreed. I’ve been doing this for awhile.

Personally, I feel e-mail should be checked but a reply should not be expected. If it’s something important, I want to know regardless. My out-of-office reply always includes the e-mail of someone covering for me.

Finally someone that got thru lit class and took the right lesson from reading Dante.

Be careful. Someone suffering in a war-torn part of Africa might look at the average American / European and say the same thing about you/us.

Astoria, Queens is spectacular for that. I knew a guy whose address was 30-30 30th St, between 30th Ave and 30th Drive. Back in the days of having to call a restaurant and actually talk to someone to get delivery, people would think he was pranking them.

So, while it might look funny, that guy is probably stressed to the absolute max.

Given what I’ve read about how Amazon drivers are compensated (or not) and micro-managed, I’m guessing he realized he forgot to deliver a package and had to go back to deliver it, which probably gets him in trouble or costs him money. 

When I was a kid, my dad and I delivered stuff in Arlington,VA. Pre-GPS. We have made those noises.

Always laugh when companies do this. “We can’t afford to hire any more staff. Therefore we’ll pay overtime on the current staff, effectively paying you the wages of multiple more workers.”

I think just before this video, the words “Make a U-Turn” came from his GPS.

Not a driver and not at Amazon, but I worked as a sorter (“pick-off” was the title, but that makes no sense to those who don’t work there) in the warehouse for another shipping company and I had a boss who would intentionally let me get overwhelmed to the point of doing this because he thought me yelling like that was…

There isn’t a whole lot to go on. The video description includes “your guess is as good as mine”. Not sure what drove him to this state but I can certainly empathize with him. I’ve had many a day at work where its just bad from the start till finish. Swearing can be quite therapeutic at the time. Hopefully Amazon…

If I cannot let out a barbaric yawp, I don’t even understand the point of the suburbs.

Ah yes, let’s quote Jason Torchinsky, the great astronaut/aerospace engine... Waitwut?

The main problem with the Dynetics design is that it literally doesn’t work. Yes, it looks good, and I was a fan of it too, until NASA actually checked the numbers themselves.