re: #58 Belafon

European out-of-offices: “I’m away camping for the summer. Email again in September”

American out-of-offices: “I have left the office for two hours to undergo kidney surgery but you can reach me on my cell anytime”

— Samuel Pollen (@samuel_pollen) April 30, 2021

About 14 years ago, I was in a suburban Chicago hospital area late at night waiting for open heart surgery the next day when a colleague in one of our California offices emailed me with a problem with our software — so I called him and helped him resolve it!