When signature files go bad
December 14th, 2007 at 10:38am |
Got an e-mail to my home address from a manager at work.
I blithely responded to the compliment because I did do a good job.
And then realize, two minutes after I sent the message, that I didn’t remove my signature file, as I would normally would when I, for some reason, have to communicate from my home e-mail with people who have the ability to fire me.
“I believe I can see the future
Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again
That might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound
I just do what I’ve been told
I really don’t want them to come around”
– Every Day is Exactly the Same, Nine Inch Nails
Posted in Awake
Those nine lines would just about undercut and “positive” content to any business email (or make the reader wonder if it was meant as an indirect jab). Let’s just hope the boss was too busy to work through the intricacies of NIN lyrics. Most people do ignore long signatures.
The point is that it’s not a business e-mail address; it was my home address. That person really shouldn’t have been using it to e-mail me about business, either.
I don’t use sig files at work. And am usually pretty careful to not use them with my personal e-mail to people who don’t need to see them. It was an accident.
That said, I didn’t hear anything about it.