Rachel, the Human Auto-Responder, Reads My Email

Earlier this summer, my family took a fun vacation to the beautiful Black Hills area of South Dakota. One of the best parts of going on that vacation actually happened before I even left, when I received this note from Rachel, my personal assistant: “Let me know if you need to touch base on anything before your vacation or if I can help you out with anything additional while you’re gone. We need to make sure your brain doesn’t float back this direction for a whole week, so be sure to let me know what I can carry while you’re away.” How wonderful is that?!? Rachel is my secret weapon. She helps keep things manageable, and allows me to take worry-free vacations. I Don’t Like Auto-Responders I don’t know about you, but I always cringe a little bit when I send an email and instantly get a vacation/out of the office auto-responder email. They always sound like this to me: Thanks for sending your email. I care about you, but I don’t care enough to make sure that your email gets handled properly when I’m gone. After all, I’m on vacation and I’m not worrying about anything! So, if you think you still need some

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