Now this is annoying. One VP in my office used to update his VM greeting daily, with the day and date (e.g., "You've reached XX. Today is Tuesday, January 22nd. I am in the office today but in a meeting blah blah..." I thought it was weird, but the annoying part was he was really inconsistent about updating it. He'd remember for a week straight, then forget for another week. I always wanted to tell him to just have a standard greeting and leave it at that.
Maybe it's required? Where my mom works they are required to have a new, dated VM greeting every day.
Now this is annoying. One VP in my office used to update his VM greeting daily, with the day and date (e.g., "You've reached XX. Today is Tuesday, January 22nd. I am in the office today but in a meeting blah blah..." I thought it was weird, but the annoying part was he was really inconsistent about updating it. He'd remember for a week straight, then forget for another week. I always wanted to tell him to just have a standard greeting and leave it at that.
Maybe it's required? Where my mom works they are required to have a new, dated VM greeting every day.
Nope, not required. No one else in our office does this, AFAIK. He is Danish (as in, moved from DK about five years ago), so it might be a cultural thing.
An out-of-office message for a one-day bank holiday is weird. I don't think you need an auto message unless you are going to be out for more than 2 days.
My company is international and my clients don't have all of the same holidays as us (they don't get President's Day) so we definitely put ours up on MLK day.