Pet Peeve of the day.

[chuckywang]

I hate it when people put their work email in their signature. YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN I GOT YOUR FREAKING EMAIL.

 

[yankeesfan]

Idiots

P.S.: My username is yankeesfan

 

[ja1484]

If you're stressing about things like that, you are going to die very young my friend.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
I hate it when people put their work email in their signature. YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN I GOT YOUR FREAKING EMAIL.

Damn, I am guilty of this. Now that I think about it, it does seem rather dumb. I am removing it now. lol

 

[MattCo]

What if it has been forwarded, so that their email is no longer in the header? If you want to email the original sender, you are out of luck.

 

[FoBoT]

i don't have a signature on my emails

 

[Injury]

Except for the fact that when you get people forwarding emails and reply chains it's not always as easy to keep track of who you need to reply to from 5 or 6 headers stacked on top of each other...

Around here we print off ALL emails and keep them in with the job. We do this because:
- Sometimes people that need to know get left off of emails
- Sometimes the assignment changes hands and short of sending EVERYTHING to EVERYONE, printing them off is the best way for a new person to backtrack the progress of an assignment
- Computer can crash. Emails can get lost.
- We want a hard copy to keep with the job so months down the road if an issue about billing or something comes up we don't have to track through thousands of archived emails to know who f'ed up.

I'm a production artist at a printing company. My job has NOTHING to do with anything but the art aspect of the job. I don't get in on emails that discuss options because monitoring hundreds of emails a week for every estimate and sales quote is not what I'm paid to do, the final decision is printed and given to me and if I have an issue with it I need to contact the customer. I can't hit reply on a paper copy.

Additionally, most people put contact info on emails in the order that they would prefer for you to reply to them. There are some people that still aren't keen on email and would much rather call, and if I have my email listed before a phone number, the implication is that you should email me instead of call. Personally, I ONLY list my name, title and email address in my signature to imply that I don't want any contact from a person unless it's an email.

 

[BooGiMaN]

does this make you like 'i need to rub one out to calm down' type of peeved or im going to stalk, kidnap, and slowly kill the person while chanting "how you like that work email in your signature now biatch!!" type of peeved

 

[moshquerade]

This space for rent

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: chuckywang
I hate it when people put their work email in their signature. YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN I GOT YOUR FREAKING EMAIL.

Damn, I am guilty of this. Now that I think about it, it does seem rather dumb. I am removing it now. lol

Haha, thats got to be a first, a rant that actually accomplishes something.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
does this make you like 'i need to rub one out to calm down' type of peeved or im going to stalk, kidnap, and slowly kill the person while chanting "how you like that work email in your signature now biatch!!" type of peeved

This is more like the "I'm gonna bitch and moan but ultimately do nothing cause I dont' like confrontation" kind of pet peeve.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I only include mine when I e-mail out of the office. When I'm e-mailing within the organization, I don't use a signature at all (when you e-mail less than 10 people regularly, it's a good bet they know who you are). The ones that drive me nuts are the ones that have e-mail signatures that are like 14 lines long, and the entire body of their e-mail will say "FYI," or some other random shit. I don't need 14 lines of signature for those 3 characters dammit.

 

[CPA]

folks will be lucky to just get my name in an email, let alone my email address.

 

[McCarthy]

I've heard of people printing out emails before. It might be an urban legend though.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I do it because it adds more information...basically, it rounds out the sig and makes it look better. I originally added it becuase I already had name, title, physical address, tel, fax, email.

 

[mattpegher]

As stated above it comes down to following forwards and replies. A chain of forwards and replies may be a dozen messages long and often new recipients may be added in the middle and have no way of reponding without the listed email addresses.

Once you start using email for anything more than bothering the cute girl 3 cubicles down you may come to realize this

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
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