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Daimler's Solution For Annoying Out-of-office Email: Delete It

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-your-away-messages-to-yourself dept.

AmiMoJo writes Sure, you can set an out-of-office auto-reply to let others know they shouldn't email you, but that doesn't usually stop the messages; you may still have to handle those urgent-but-not-really requests while you're on vacation. That's not a problem if you work at Daimler, though. The German automaker recently installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it outright.

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  1. I'll check that immediately by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Daimler-Benz

    I know it's after hours, but I would like to order 500 cars of the Model S as quickly as possible, color unimportant.
    I'll pay double for speedy delivery.

  2. Urgent Benz email by rossdee · · Score: 4, Funny

    From Lewis Hamilton
    To Ross Brawn

    Tell Nico to move over, I 'm doing faster lap times.

  3. Re:Defeats the purpose by bigfinger76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You touch my back one more time and I'm sending an email to HR.