7 Mar 05 @ 3:49 pm
Less Is More
In the Wall Street Journal’s latest “Real Time” column, Less Is More, Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry question the practice of appending a long signature to every e-mail:
We know that signatures are intended to add some personality to dry interoffice communications, but we still can’t help but wince when we get a one-line e-mail — followed by six lines of contact info and some italicized Jimmy Buffett. And while each of us is, of course, a unique and beautiful snowflake, the bottom of an e-mail may not be the best place to express ourselves. Trust us: Ending some workaday bit of bureaucracy with a call to arms by Bruce Springsteen tends to make you look like pathetic cubicle-farm veal, while ending some serious corporate inquiry with the lyrics to ‘Louie, Louie’ makes you look like a lightweight.
posted in category(s): Points of Interest
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