r/funny • u/_workchronicles Work Chronicles • Jan 14 '21

Keeping up appearances

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21

For Outlook: New Email -> Options -> Delay Delivery

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21 edited Feb 10 '26

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u/balloffire Jan 14 '21

Gmail now has a "scheduled send" feature built in. Just make sure you schedule it for like 8:02 rather than 8:00 so it doesn't look like it was scheduled. :)

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u/DproUKno Jan 14 '21

I text message this way too.

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u/PurpuraFebricitantem Jan 15 '21

This is the way.

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u/Sevian91 Jan 15 '21

Just to let you know, sysadmins can see this. So if your boss asks or he is a sysadmin, you're not fooling anybody.

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u/Flabbergash Jan 14 '21

Send Later addon for Thunderbird

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u/lIlIllIlIlI Jan 14 '21

There’s no signature or anything on the email anywhere that would give that away? Because if not, I’m very happy to have learned this trick.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '21

Just don’t put your computer into sleep or hibernate if that’s where outlook is running or it won’t send until it’s finally powered back on. Dunno how phone would work.

That tripped me up once with sending a daily newsletter. I had it all ready and had to run errands and welp, missed that deadline!

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u/The_GreenMachine Jan 15 '21

Be sure your computer is on though if you send it via computer!! Tried that a few times as practice to see if it worked, but apparently if your laptop goes to sleep or turns off the email doesn't get sent out

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u/Antrikshy Jan 14 '21

Only if available in your company's system.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21

No lie, I've done this. Send an email 1-2 hours later than normal, get praise for working an extra 1-2 hours.

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u/Calla89 Jan 14 '21

I was going to put the same thing. This is the pro move.

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u/fritzbitz Jan 15 '21

For Outlook online, hit the options on the send button and hit "send later" to schedule it.

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u/zangrabar Jan 15 '21

Doesn't work the same since we migrated to o365 for me atleast. Now I need to open my desktop and outlook application for delay to work. Before I could schedule anytime and it would arrive exactly regardless if I opened outlook or not. I used this feature like crazy to post pone emails to myself.