Email sigs

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Some daft bitch here decided it would be a good idea to start a movement to get everyone to throw the following line at the end of their email signatures:

GO GREEN - Please consider the environment before printing this email

I realize that "green" is a buzzword right now, but come on. No one here ever prints email. Try not printing thousand-page reports every day; that'll maybe help a tad more.

Anyhow, I decided alternatives were needed. At the risk of offending someone, I submit them for the approval of you all as well:


GO BLUE - Donate to the Russ Martin Police & Firefighters Foundation
GO RED - Vote Republican for Continued Oppression
GO BLACK - Never Go Back
GO FISH - I Don't Have Any 6's
GO PLAID - "Ludicrous Speed... GO!"
GO BROWN - Ask Me About My Scat Porn Collection
GO HOME - Champion Your Personal Causes There Instead of in your Corporate Email Signature

Comments

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

As someone who supports an academic environment, I'm amazed I've never seen anything like this before.

And yes, our profs tend to print out their e-mails. Gaah.

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

OK, THAT is the coolest thing I've read today. Well played!

[snyperwolf.livejournal.com]

Well played indeed. Quite awesome, toxico.

[two-pi-r.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of TurboTax 99 or thereabouts, when you printed your tax return, asking if you also wanted to print the "Paperwork Reduction Act of 199x".

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Indeed; I remember this, and the snapping sound my brain made when I saw that.

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

Email is backed up to the time of MosesStoneTablets(TM) around here, in multiple locations.

One plant manager still prints everything.

[insaint.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Nice...

[toxico.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for someone to pick up on that...

And yeah, political propaganda like that (whether agreeable or not) doesn't need to be sent around. Period.

[caitriona27.livejournal.com]

I get an email from a customer with a similar Go Green type of add-on in their sig line, but their's includes a cute little graphic of a tree and something..

It's cute - but sometimes I still need to print my emails for order purposes or whatever.

[snarl817.livejournal.com]

- Ask Me About My Scat Porn Collection

You've been spending too much time with flemco, haven't you? :D

[toxico.livejournal.com]

That one was actually suggested by a coworker.

In answer to the question: not nearly enough as far as I'm concerned.

[darkrose.livejournal.com]

You my good sir, are a cornucopia of wins.

[tsutton.livejournal.com]

We get that a lot at work.

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

Ha! Ha!


Awesome!


Loved the "Go Plaid"!!!!!

[privateskylark.livejournal.com]

GO FISH - I Don't Have Any 6's

My personal fave :D

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

agreed :)

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Feh. Putting personal agendas in business emails is a pet peeve of mine.

Came very close to doing some ill-advised things that would have landed me in a state of unemployement when my arch-nemesis, our QA Director, started putting christian bulshit in hers.

To say it's unprofessional barely begins to touch the matter.

[vortex.livejournal.com]

I say!

Go to a bar - drink yourseffulla...wassat?...whaaat?...you show me yerrr boobs! *BrrrrrrP!*...

[tanetris.livejournal.com]

You win a Spaceballs the Cookie (tm)

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

You can vote Republican and not support oppression.

ronpaul2008.com (http://ronpaul2008.com/)

Yes, we're all joking here, but I couldn't let an opportunity to stump pass me by. ;)

[manuka.livejournal.com]

You can't vote for a politician without supporting oppression of some sort :)

[lovemonster.livejournal.com]

actually, there's a lady at my office who prints ALL her email bc "she can't read them on the TV screen" (her words, not mine)

[iterative-steps.livejournal.com]

the lady nexto to me does this as well just to show me something..she does this even when she knows i have the same exact screen up.

[wignersfriend.livejournal.com]

Someone in my office put a "Save the trees, stop printing!" sign next to our main copier/printer/fax.

I took the sign down and pointed out to her that if she wants more trees, she should waste more paper, as paper companies would then grow more trees to meet the demand.

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

It's company policy where I work, we have to have that shit in our signatures.
I also work in th efinancial sector, I have to print emails to meet fsa regulations.
So when I print a long email chain, and have two or three pages of "think before you print" at the end of my printout a little of me dies inside.

[manuka.livejournal.com]

I almost had to lay a smackdown on a user for printing 50 copies of a mailmerge form letter on the color printer (Laserjet 5550). The only color on the entire page was a red word in the letterhead.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

By all means. When do you start, anyhow?

[kostika.livejournal.com]

I work in the Public Sector. This of course includes politicians. Alot of emails get printed. So that little Think Green tag some people have in their sigs is a waste of time since it gets ignored.

Go Fish is the best.

[calriddia.livejournal.com]

I think I laughed for a good 5 minutes and had to resist putting on of those in my email!

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

suggestion:

Go Soylent Green

- Help reduce the population crisis.

[commonsensehere.livejournal.com]

"GO RED - Vote Republican for Continued Oppression"

explain to me when and how you are being oppressed?

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Explain to me why you can't figure out it's simply a joke.