They're everywhere. In email signatures. On bulletin boards, and text message signatures.
I'm talking about the corny "quote of the day," or "words to live by" that people feel everyone else needs to know.
I, for one, am tired of reading them. I don't want to read what you think is wise. Maybe I don't want to know what the "moral lesson of the day is", and maybe, just maybe I do not care to know who you think are the wisest people on the earth.
I mean, most of the quotes come from dead people. Maybe we should just leave them where we find them. For you, they may be jewels, but for me, it's just another unnecessary line of text to read.
The worst is when you have a bulletin board in the office and the resident "enlightened" one must use it for their own personal agendas.
The board is for posting OFFICE information. Maybe a potluck is coming up, or an article was published in the local media about Bob from Accounting's snagging a 20lb. Tuna over the weekend.
It is not the place to preach or teach. Neither is your email, or text message signature.
I don't want to read Hallmark-esque quotes, or so-called inspirational quotes at the end of our correspondence. Your name, alternate email, and phone number is all I expect and SHOULD see when I'm through reading your message.
I feel like I'm forced to read this stuff and I'm fed up with it. I've even seen them on the Starbucks cups and everything. Now I can't even get a Chai Tea Latte without be subjected to someone's random words. I don't even go to Starbucks anymore in an effort to avoid those dumb messages I know will be waiting for me on my cup.
What do you think about this? Am I alone, or do I have some fellow cubicle people behind me on this one?
I, for one, am tired of reading them. I don't want to read what you think is wise. Maybe I don't want to know what the "moral lesson of the day is", and maybe, just maybe I do not care to know who you think are the wisest people on the earth.
I mean, most of the quotes come from dead people. Maybe we should just leave them where we find them. For you, they may be jewels, but for me, it's just another unnecessary line of text to read.
The worst is when you have a bulletin board in the office and the resident "enlightened" one must use it for their own personal agendas.
The board is for posting OFFICE information. Maybe a potluck is coming up, or an article was published in the local media about Bob from Accounting's snagging a 20lb. Tuna over the weekend.
It is not the place to preach or teach. Neither is your email, or text message signature.
I don't want to read Hallmark-esque quotes, or so-called inspirational quotes at the end of our correspondence. Your name, alternate email, and phone number is all I expect and SHOULD see when I'm through reading your message.
I feel like I'm forced to read this stuff and I'm fed up with it. I've even seen them on the Starbucks cups and everything. Now I can't even get a Chai Tea Latte without be subjected to someone's random words. I don't even go to Starbucks anymore in an effort to avoid those dumb messages I know will be waiting for me on my cup.
What do you think about this? Am I alone, or do I have some fellow cubicle people behind me on this one?
5 comments:
Agree to a point. But every now and then you run across words that really hits home like the one I read recently, "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”--Booker T. Washington. I can connect with these words as it reminds me of the sh.. people have to go through to achieve success. But then I run across something like "Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." Ok, sure this has personal meaning to someone, but for me it meant nothing. I am ok as long as they keep these sayings below the signature block, leaving it up to me if I want to keep reading. LOL
Yo', you got me laughing in my cube over here. Not in the sense that this was funny, but how you WENT IN hard leaving no prisoners in your wake. Damn, and I've been coming up with quotes for years. I am waiting for my pink slip to leave OrHardlyWorking, to reach my desk in 5, 4, 3, 2.... :)
It doesn't really annoy me....could be because I don't even bother to read them tho.
I say if you're going to put something at the end of an email at least let it be funny. Some examples if you will....
1. The dog that jumps in the water loses the bone that's in its mouth.
2. You're wrinkling my school clothes.
3. Jump up my a*s.
4. The squirrel master came out of left field and told me I'm his bish!
and my personal fave...
5. Don't piss on my face and tell me it's rain.
@Deshair, the thing is you made it up yourself!!!
Plus, thats your thing. its u. you get a pass
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