'Out of office' — the automatic reply, the status, and, since 2020, the boast: 'OOO until Monday, do not contact me'. The record's entry for the acronym that became a small act of resistance, and for the auto-reply that is funnier than the person.
Correction: the source line credits the wrong place. It was already circulating in a smaller community before the platform on file picked it up. Attribution follows attention, not origin.
The record notes the OOO message is now a genre — jokes, poems, threats — and that the record's own says 'I am not here and neither, ideally, are you'.
Filed as evidence: a job listing that asked candidates to demonstrate "OOO energy". Screenshot attached. The listing has since been edited.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
