Ah, gotta love malicious compliance.
@davidaugust @jablair total hero.
@tbridge @davidaugust indeed. I have _almost_ everything turned off while I’m on vacation this week. One or two things still have push notification permission, but I’m willfully ignoring them.
@jablair @tbridge good call to ignore. Hard if/when a work expects us to be available. Does breaking news impact your work?
@jablair @tbridge @davidaugust awesome! I think it was @bynkii who said he wanted utility that replaced a user's email password with nonsense when they were on vacation and restored it when they came back. If you are not at work, don't be at work. I still think about that sometimes.
@Verso @jablair @tbridge @davidaugust sounds like something I’d be in favor of. It’d be easy to do with something like exchange that can have info on co-workers/managers. Set the vacation status to on, manager gets an email asking who all your emails should go to while you’re on vacation. They click an name and it’s handled.
As long as the data is there, the implementation would be easy.
@davidaugust @Verso @jablair @tbridge OOFs are okay, but they’re kind of half-assed. Just automate it
@davidaugust @tbridge not usually. More about setting reasonable boundaries. If I am really needed for something (and it would probably be more managerial than technical, tbh), I can be reached via “break glass” methods.
@jablair @tbridge that sounds well planned out.
I get that sometimes exigency happens. But that needs to be rare, break glass style.
Too often companies forget that work life balance for their people actually helps the company too. Productivity and retention are far more in their favor when employees are healthy and not miserable.