{"id":70266,"date":"2014-09-26T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strattoncraig.com\/insight\/out-office-travel-republic-ascii-starfish\/"},"modified":"2014-09-26T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T10:02:15","slug":"out-office-travel-republic-ascii-starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strattoncraig.com\/us\/insight\/out-office-travel-republic-ascii-starfish\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Out Of Office’ of the Week – Travel Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people advertise the fact that they\u2019re on holiday by posting hundreds of photos of tanned legs on Instagram. Some people like to tweet relentlessly from their deckchair. And then there are the people who leave a smug \u2018out of office\u2019 message on their work email account.
\nTravel Republic is getting in on this phenomenon with a series of amusing \u2018out of office\u2019 replies available for anyone to use. Yes, they\u2019re not technically ads of the week, but they do promote both the company and the advantages of not checking email every five minutes. To see them all, follow this link<\/a>.
\nAs Travel Republic says in massive ASCII art letters at the top of the page, \u201cA great holiday deserves a great out of office.\u201d
\nAnd these are great. Some are surprisingly informative \u2013 I wasn\u2019t previously aware of just how many lumens the sun has. Some of them are just plain mean. Who would do such a thing to a starfish?
\nFrom a writer\u2019s perspective, these messages are inspired. They play on the typical ideas we all have of colleagues taking holiday: that they can\u2019t wait to get away, that they\u2019re living it up without us, and that they don\u2019t miss work or us one bit.
\nThe cheeky twists in each one (hopefully) make it clear that the absent contact is just kidding. Genuinely dropping the work phone in the apartment complex\u2019s pool isn\u2019t going to go down well with the boss.
\nThere is sort of an expectation that a copywriter<\/a> will always leave a more imaginative message on their automatic replies to email. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d dare leave one of these Travel Republic examples set up on mine, though. For one thing, I don\u2019t want anyone to think I\u2019ve fallen in love with a guy called Dimitri who enjoys wearing tight Lycra.
\nWhat\u2019s the best \u2018out of office\u2019 message you\u2019ve ever received \u2013 or set up? Tell us on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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