Recently I went on holiday and set my out of office autoreply as the following

Hi there,

Thanks for emailing. I’m off visiting my insane family and then my sister-in-law. If I survive my parents’ boring stories and my sister-in-law’s vegan cookery then I’ll respond to your email on my return (which will be Tuesday 18 April).
Or if you have something really important to convey and it can’t wait, then you can contact [my co-workers names & email addresses].
 
You can probably tell that I really need this break!

Lots of love,
[my secret identity, job title etc.]

When I got back I found out that in my absence the powers that be had changed my autoreply message to something much more boring. But they weren’t quite quick enough because I also had this email waiting for me from web marketing guru Michael Katz:

Let me just say that yours was the best vacation message I’ve ever read!

May I use it in one of my future newsletters as an example?

All the best,

Michael

Seeing a potential fifteen seconds of fame I, of course, said yes. What I didn’t realise was that Mike was going to print my name and the organisation I work for in his web-marketing email which goes out to thousands of discerning people, including my boss and our entire web team. The funny thing was I’d already been told off for setting up an “unprofessional” message and now here was one of the world’s top marketing guys raving about it.
A few weeks later some minutes came round from one of the more boring operations meetings. Right at the end was a note saying that from now on staff would have to set up a standard out of office reply. We now have that, written directly from the Executive Director’s office…
Now you might think I’d be bitter about this, but I’m not. Why? Because now I can put on my CV, in all honesty, the following: “During my time at the organisation, I played an important role in shaping the corporate culture with regard to professionalism in communications.” I could take a lie detector test, say that, and pass. (Of course, I don’t know which job would make me take a lie detector test at the interview, but that’s a whole different fettle of kish!)