I don't use em. Discuss.

6/7/2012 3:42:59 PM

business or personal?

personal sigs are lame but i use one for business related correspondence

6/7/2012 3:44:06 PM

Best Regards,

H8R

6/7/2012 3:44:58 PM

dude where are the ?

6/7/2012 3:45:53 PM

No use for personal. Mandatory use for business.

6/7/2012 3:46:21 PM

,

H8R

6/7/2012 3:46:41 PM

I only include a signature with my lab address for academic purposes. I'm not a fan of quotes in signatures.

6/7/2012 3:47:27 PM

personal sigs are lame but i use one for business related correspondence

6/7/2012 3:47:57 PM

Quote :

"No use for personal. Mandatory use for business."

6/7/2012 3:48:13 PM

I have to put this shit in mine, so I use the smallest font possible


IRS Circular 230 Disclosure: To ensure compliance with requirements imposed by the IRS, we inform you that any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.

6/7/2012 3:48:20 PM

wall of text

(for an email sig)

6/7/2012 3:50:21 PM

they are useful for the first time you correspond with someone, but annoying as hell if used in every reply

6/7/2012 3:51:46 PM

yes, but i keep mine short and sweet. I have my name, title, company name, office number, and cell number. If I am sending you an email, you already have my address. I also have a hyperlink on my company name that directs to our website.

6/7/2012 3:52:03 PM

Mine is name,

Sincerely,

Name
Title
Company Name
address
phone number
fax

website
blog
trademark
registered slogan
"save the environment, don't print this email"

legal disclaimer.

[Edited on June 7, 2012 at 3:54 PM. Reason : And we are not allowed to alter it.]

6/7/2012 3:52:27 PM

I print and file all emails, regardless of disclaimers.

6/7/2012 3:54:12 PM

Quote :

""save the environment, don't print this email" "

that always cracks me up. Drink twice if they have a little image of a pine tree next to the statement

6/7/2012 3:55:40 PM

Yes, yes there is.

6/7/2012 3:56:03 PM

a pine tree that came from a farm that is harvested and resown every 9-12 years

[Edited on June 7, 2012 at 3:56 PM. Reason : f]

6/7/2012 3:56:27 PM

i feel your pain Beethoven

my (mandatory) work signature is 17 lines long, not including our company logo. i avoid using it whenever possible

we have this and the little tree:

Quote :

"save the environment, don't print this email"

[Edited on June 7, 2012 at 3:59 PM. Reason : .]

6/7/2012 3:57:48 PM

I type my name

I've misspelled it more than once

6/7/2012 3:58:08 PM

I'm Krallum and I approved this email

6/7/2012 3:59:03 PM

Akrallum

6/7/2012 3:59:22 PM

No use for personal. Mandatory use for business.

6/7/2012 4:00:05 PM

This tree?

P

6/7/2012 4:01:15 PM

6/7/2012 4:01:18 PM

I believe there's an indirect relationship between the elaborateness of the signature and the amount of work the sender actually does.

6/7/2012 4:02:30 PM

I have one for personal and business

fuck all y'all

6/7/2012 4:02:48 PM

that's pretty rude, E

6/7/2012 4:03:49 PM

what a bitch!

6/7/2012 4:04:02 PM

i see someone else reads deadspin

6/7/2012 4:27:43 PM

business - definitely...

mine's 4-lines, same font as body of email.

I have coworkers that randomly choose their signature, job title (dont know how that is not addressed), use at least 16pt text height and different fonts.

fuck that mess.

6/7/2012 4:35:34 PM

jajajahahah that's not my signature, but maybe I should change it on the personal side

6/7/2012 4:35:45 PM

I hate email signatures, either situation.


Most of my email exchanges are back and forths... I don't need to see 5 lines of your made up title and bullshit contact #s every fucking time you send me an email

6/7/2012 4:37:42 PM

i enjoy seeing the bible ones

6/7/2012 4:38:20 PM

well you only use it for the first email

ass

6/7/2012 4:38:35 PM

might as well go ahead and post it

Quote :

"How To Not Piss Off The World With Your Email Signature I once worked at an ad agency that forced employees to use an email signature. And not only did we have to have an email signature, but we had to rotate in new talking points about the company into the signature every week. "Did you know that Sturding Pooper Raper Lice was ranked a Top 50 Agency by AdWeek?" I quit that job after two months. Never in human history has a human being looked at an email signature and been like, "Whoa hey, I have to hire that person!" And yet, email signatures have somehow managed to flourish. I recently got this email from reader Gene about email signatures: I noticed this more prevalently in college, but I recently saw someone with a Ghandi quote in their email signature block. What is someone's intention with putting a motivational quote affixed to their emails? Am I supposed to think more of you? Am I to associate that quote you stole from someone else as part of your personal philosophy? What whores. Damn straight. There are only two good excuses to have an email signature, and here they are: 1. Your company forced one upon you. Most companies do this, forcing you to attach a digital business card to any piece of digital communication you send out. Corporations do this because they are evil and shitty. 2. You want people to have easy access to your contact information. Do you have your phone number and address in your email signature? REFEREE MILLS LANE SAYS HE'LL ALLOW IT. If I ever need to call someone and I never bothered to take down the number (happens daily), then I can just call up any old email from the person and have ready access to it. Ditto the address. That's all well and good, I suppose. But often, people are unable to resist taking their vital email signature info and then loading it up with heaps and heaps of useless dogshit. Here now are some things that should NEVER be included in your email signature: Your email address. You just sent me an email. I have your goddamn address already. Don't be an idiot. Your alma mater. Oh wow, you're Dickinson class of '05? Good for you. NOW CHOKE. This goes especially for you active college students. Don't bother trying to present yourself a serious human being just because you put the name of your school in full and your future graduation year at the end of an email about all the ass you tagged last night. That means you, Taylor Cumberstock, University of California at Santa Barbara Class of the Year of Our Lord 2013. Double cockpunches if you include your major. Your LinkedIn address. You got hacked and you earned it. Motivational quotes. This is not a yearbook. I'm just trying to schedule lunch with you. I don't need a quote from Sylvia Plath constantly interrupting us. No one has even been impressed by a quote embedded in an email signature. They are the bumper stickers of digital communication. Speaking of bumper stickers ... Political rallying cries. Congrats. You just outed yourself a HuffPo troll. I'm never emailing you again. Colorful fonts. OMG! It's your name, but it's in RED! And in comic sans! Pretty spiffy! A fucking jpeg. Companies that embed jpegs into their email sigs should be disbanded and have all their files dropped into a volcano. And if your company didn't force you to put a jpeg in there and you did it of your own accord, you can go straight to hell. No one wants a fucking attachment every time they get an email. Half the time, the things are corrupt and don't even show up. You are ruining the email experience with your stupid logo. "Sent from my iPhone/iPad/Macbook Air/Steve Jobs' Gaping Dead Asshole." And, even worse, its sister signature ... "Sent from [pithy modification to the Sent from My iPhone message]" Sent from your iBone? AHAHAHAHAHA THAT'S FUNNY EVERY TIME I HEAR IT. And don't think trying to apologize for your signature helps. "Sent from my iPad, but not in a snotty way (OK maybe a little)." You went into your preferences specifically to make that cutesy little change when you could have erased your signature forever and spared us all the trouble. YOU PENIS. Email signatures are worthless. By Drew Magary Jun 7, 2012 12:25 PM "

http://deadspin.com/5916228/how-to-not-piss-off-the-world-with-your-email-signature

6/7/2012 4:41:14 PM

Kindly,

DivaBaby19
fuck all y'all

6/7/2012 4:41:29 PM

I have two jobs, one academic and one corporate.

for academic, everyone uses the same general format

name, [prof. designations]
title
program, if applicable
university name
department
phone
fax

A lot of time they'll also include their work address / mail box number.

At my corporate job, I have no signature and I don't use my professional designations when I sign my name.

6/7/2012 4:46:07 PM

Quote :

"Your email address. You just sent me an email. I have your goddamn address already. Don't be an idiot."

you'd be amazed at how many idiots want to send you an email and pull up an old and invalid email address from their 10-year old address book

6/7/2012 4:58:44 PM

Quote :

"Yours with Christ, CEO BigMan Industries "But I poop from there." - Annonymous"

6/7/2012 5:06:57 PM

Name
Job Title
Company
Office address
Office phone
Email address

6/7/2012 5:12:33 PM

i rent to a guy who has signatures on his texts. it usually says "kiss my sw@g", "team sw@ag" or something "sw@g" related.

another one of my tenants had a signature on her texts that said " $~i'm lovin' it~$ ". she was broke and got evicted

6/7/2012 5:13:23 PM

oh man I don't get text signatures

6/7/2012 5:16:01 PM

Rarely for personal. Sometimes, I will sign it -Jeff




For the first response, or initial message at work:

Name
Title
Address
Phone | Fax
Company Logo


For any other email response:

-Jeff

6/7/2012 5:18:13 PM

love the deadspin post.

There's nothing worse than a graphical email signature.


Now that I'm no longer customer facing, I use no signature whatsoever. When I was, it was just basic contact information in... wait for it... PLAIN MOTHERFUCKING TEXT.

6/7/2012 5:19:57 PM

haha

6/7/2012 5:22:39 PM

I don't deal with any outside customers at all, but they still want me to use an email signature.

Sometimes my emails end up as part of an email chain that does make its way outside of the company, though, so...I guess it makes sense.

6/7/2012 5:30:21 PM

I absolutely do not read deadspin pshoes, k

6/7/2012 5:51:24 PM

Email signatures > signatures on message board posts.

6/7/2012 5:54:38 PM

i'm krallum and i approved this message.

6/7/2012 5:59:16 PM