Colleague's fluffy language!

[Mk9821]

Just received an out of office reply to an email sent to my colleague.
"currently at this present time I'm not at work abd not going to be back in the office till xxx".
She never gets straight to the point, why to some people use overly fluffy and round the houses ways of saying something that can be summarised in a few words?

They think it’s more formal?

That is pretty to the point and fairly standard for an out of office, what exactly would you expect her to say?

This is such a non issue

Currently and present time are the same thing!!

It's not to the point. 'at this present time' is the same as 'currently'.

My out of office just says “I am out the office until Monday 12th January. I will respond to your email on my return”. To the point!

Yanbu

Some folk thrive on prolixity, personally I think its a waste of peoples time having to read it.

'Currently' and 'at this present time' is mildly annoying.

But meh 🤷‍♂️

I get it, it's the difference between "I'm out of office until x anything urgent can be directed to x" and "forsooth verily I will not be available for correspondence until the waxing gibbous of the tenth day of middletide, your questions, queries and lamentations will be received and resolved joyously by my virtuous desk partner until such time as I am available again."

I had to consciously make my everyday correspondence less purple when I realised how annoying it is lmao, I was doing it because I didn't want to come across blunt and rude with single sentence responses to things.

I thought this was going to be a thread about cats.

Most disappointing.

Tautologies irk me!

I really can’t fathom why threads like these are started. It’s mind boggling.

It's less annoying than getting OOO which says "I am currently out of office".. Thanks for that, Melanie. Was it too much to ask to stick your return date on there?

The issue will be that you don't like her and that's why it irritates you.

I think people think it sounds more professional but it just sounds a bit cringe to me.

It’s not fluffy, it’s just repetitive. I’m amazed it bothers you enough to start a thread about it though.

The tautology would annoy me.

A lot of people think that using many long words is classy. It isn't, but it's hard to get through to them on this. If you ever have to write essays under exam conditions, you very quickly dump all the waffle.

Yes it reminds me of having to write an essay and you’re low on word count so fluff it out a bit.

It's Arthur from Cabin Pressure making a passenger announcement.

Far more annoying when you get an OOO telling you to email someone else and they are also OOO. My colleague does this regularly and I am the extra OOO!

I used to work at a company that required us to write like this to clients. We would get pulled up if we wrote anything they deemed too ‘direct’ or ‘forceful’. In fact, for the first month they checked out emails before we sent them, to ensure we were using this flowery language. I left (no surprise) but still feel I need to write like this professionally.

I wouldn't say that's "fluffy", but it's a ridiculously verbose and tautological way of saying, "I will be out of the office until [date]."

OP is a Lampard.

Does it really matter? You have your way of doing things and she has hers. 🤷‍♀️