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Monday, March 24, 2008

Please consider the environment before printing this blogpost.

Having a little green tree and "please consider" on your email signature pretty much says you are well-meaning, but don't get it.

Can the hoards of people doing this consider the fact that almost no one prints electronic mail?! Can we throw all these people in one room and figure out what there shared DNA is so we can map the "sheep" gene?

Please consider my nerves before reminding me on the half-hour that you are concerned about paper waste while you sit smugly at your energy sucking PC, in your air-conditioned building in your child-labored produced threads.

Happy Monday.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I get emails with that on the bottom I print it out and fold an origami representation of the person who sent it... Then I proceed to torture it like a voodoo doll. I need to do something more constructive with my free time.

Anonymous said...

My old company automatically put that on the bottom of every external email. Some people have no choice. Blame it on the Man wanting to torture you.

Anonymous said...

Putting that on the bottom of emails says "you are well-meaning, but don't get it." The people with this on their emails are the ones that don't get it?

Anonymous said...

If you think no one prints email, then you're the one who doesn't get it. Many people in office environments print practically EVERYTHING, then sort it out and toss what's irrelevant. It's a message intended to reach the enormous number of people who are mind-numbingly stupid and wasteful.

Anonymous said...

Those of us with jobs actually print most of our emails, so we do get it. We are trying to reach the people that obviously "don't get it" and need to 'blog' about it.

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