PSA: Please include a sig in your work e-mails

[child of wonder]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: child of wonder
I don't like signatures because I really don't want every single person I email to have my phone number.

If someone in my company wants it, they can easily look it up. Anyone outside my company can only have my number if I give it to them.

company policy is to have the "standard company signature" in our emails to show consistency when dealing with clients

We have a corporate standard as well. 21 lines long :roll:

I'm sure it won't be long before our department bows to bloated bureaucracy as well.

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: child of wonder
I don't like signatures because I really don't want every single person I email to have my phone number.

If someone in my company wants it, they can easily look it up. Anyone outside my company can only have my number if I give it to them.

company policy is to have the "standard company signature" in our emails to show consistency when dealing with clients

We have a corporate standard as well. 21 lines long :roll:

are you referring to the disclosure "this information is intended....law....etc etc"

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: child of wonder
I don't like signatures because I really don't want every single person I email to have my phone number.

If someone in my company wants it, they can easily look it up. Anyone outside my company can only have my number if I give it to them.

company policy is to have the "standard company signature" in our emails to show consistency when dealing with clients

We have a corporate standard as well. 21 lines long :roll:

are you referring to the disclosure "this information is intended....law....etc etc"

Yes, they won't let us (IT) add it as a footer, it has to be in the signature. Plus there is the nice little "Don't print me because that would waste paper" blurb in there.

 

[nakedfrog]

No thanks. I don't really want you contacting me anyway. I just sent the email to leave a trail to make it look like I tried to contact you so I can say "Oh, I'm just waiting to hear back from Ken on that" when the boss man comes by.

 

[purbeast0]

so reply "sure" and see what he says back.

our work has a phone list of employees on the intranet, and i personally HATE sigs in emails, especially that kind.

i don't need 15 extra lines telling me your middle name and your mom's phone number, nor your job title, or where you work.

 

[biggestmuff]

OP, what company do you work for? I need to know so that I'll never do business with you guys.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
so reply "sure" and see what he says back.

our work has a phone list of employees on the intranet, and i personally HATE sigs in emails, especially that kind.

i don't need 15 extra lines telling me your middle name and your mom's phone number, nor your job title, or where you work.

Especially in email chains...

 

[krunchykrome]

I think it's incredibly unprofessional to put any personal touches in the signature

for example, poems and phrases

 

[torpid]

No. If it's necessary and useful, it can be done automatically without me having to putz around. Personalized signatures should be banned because of all the toolacious signatures people have. ENOUGH ALREADY. I don't need 15 colors for your email address and phone number. DIAF. And I will personally maim the next person whose email includes a 100kb privacy disclaimer.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I think it's incredibly unprofessional to put any personal touches in the signature

for example, poems and phrases

Or crazy colors and shit like ~*~**~*~.

fucks sake.

I strip all that out but it's agonizing to see it on other peoples' screens.

 

[Drakkon]

Frankly I say if he wants to do it over email all the better - everything logged that way. This i don't put # in emails much anymore

 

[Steve]

You know what really pisses me off in signatures? Song lyrics!

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Steve
Jason,

No.

- Ken

Too much info, much better if you just reply with this:



No.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Steve
You know what really pisses me off in signatures? Song lyrics!

see you next tuesday.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: Steve
You know what really pisses me off in signatures? Song lyrics!

see you next tuesday.

Always show sigs, heavy or light editions.

 

[GasX]

OP, is your name Tom Smykowski?

 

[gar3555]

Ken,

The Website is Down.

- Jason

 

[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
I think it's incredibly unprofessional to put any personal touches in the signature

for example, poems and phrases

This

Originally posted by: torpid
No. If it's necessary and useful, it can be done automatically without me having to putz around. Personalized signatures should be banned because of all the toolacious signatures people have. ENOUGH ALREADY. I don't need 15 colors for your email address and phone number. DIAF. And I will personally maim the next person whose email includes a 100kb privacy disclaimer.

And This

Obviously, I'm a champion of sigs, but not a champion of personality. Name, Phone Number, E-mail. That's it. Don't include your fax number, because who the freak uses faxes nowadays, anyway?!

 

[Kelemvor]

I'd just click reply and say "Yep"

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Just got the following e-mail from one of my clients:

Ken,

You got a sec?

- Jason

That's it. No phone call, no followup e-mail signature, nothing. Sure, I got a sec and I would LOVE to call you, but I don't know your fuggin' phone number! Now I have to spend unnecessary time looking it up.

How hard is it to be professional and include your contact information within every e-mail you send from work? Sheesh...

ok.. let me refresh business 101...

client = $ you want
you = kiss his ass, and spend the effort to look up his info via reverse email lookup