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Holidays are a little trickier since there’s such a wide variation in who celebrates what, but I definitely think you may be at a toxic firm if people feel like they have to let everyone know they’re OOO on the weekend lol. Like I’ll do it if I’m going to be out for an entire week, and I’ll usually make clear for the avoidance of doubt that I’ll be back in the office the following Monday or whatever. But having to put up an auto-reply as a matter of course from Friday night through Sunday evening is just crazy.
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Yeah my firm runs toward the toxic side. Or more accurately some partners which I no longer work with.
I put one up - not everyone takes the holiday off, and I find that having it up for me makes it clear that I am.
Holidays are pretty meaningless in big law. If there’s something that needs to get done or something a client needs, you just do it
I have only seen this for religious holidays that are not federal holidays (eg eid) or folks not in the US where there is a bank holiday that is not a Us federal holiday.
Think it’s a bit odd but not necessarily toxic. But it is a sign of toxicity lol
One I saw recently was an OOO for Friday night through Saturday afternoon lol (not religion related)
Weekend no but for instance this Friday I’m going to put my OOO up because like 50% of people take Juneteenth off and I want to be clear when people email me that I’m out.
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just keep your status as offline and only respond to your day 1s and keep the convos strictly about Fifa
lol no. One time as a first year I sent an OOO email for a weekend trip (no weekdays off) and a senior associate came to my office and was like “no one cares what you do on the weekend unless you have a Monday closing.”
I’ve since followed that advice and not said anything about weekend availability unless it truly looks like it’ll come up or there is a strong/clear expectation of weekend work
Contextual. If you have busy teams with some big deadlines the following week, then yes probably good to warn people about being away for the weekend. Otherwise you don’t have to.
I wouldn’t for weekends or big holidays like Memorial Day, but not everyone takes Juneteenth or Presidents Day off so it couldn’t hurt for those.
I mean i would only do it if something big is pending and I'd be without any email access for a large chunk of the weekend (e.g. camping trip)
Someone at my old firm would put up an OOO when he was in a two hour training or otherwise unavailable to immediately respond. Others wouldn't use OOO at all. I think it's very specific to the person. The guy who went overboard was a total gunner (eventually made partner) who just tried way too hard across the board.