LinkedIn needs...
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Couldn't google manually set some rules for "important" companies anyway?
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I am a forward facing person, so I do not have a choice. On days when my phone is beeping every 30 seconds, I would prefer to not have email at all.
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Couldn't google manually set some rules for "important" companies anyway?
Could they? Yes.
Should they? Probably not. Giving one company special treatment over another regardless of reason is a pretty bad idea if you're a service provider.
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Ahhh, no fun. The only people that contact me are ones inside my company, so the FLast@company.com makes it easy.
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@Intercourse said:
Am I the only person who thinks that email signatures have gotten out of control?
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/disclaim.htm (Universal disclaimer)
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Some email clients wipe out the actual email addresses when something is forwarded and you only see the display name. Otherwise...who knows.
What if you collect your email as a stack of printouts of Word documents copied and pasted from the email client? How else would you know who to reply to?
Mine has a logo, name, surname, department, position, mail address, phone numbers, company logo, 15 lines of legal cruft, full company name, address, registration number, and a "before printing, think about the environment" notice in it.
I don't think I've ever sent an email that actually took more space than the signature in it.
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I don't think I've ever sent an email that actually took more space than the signature in it.
I see those a fair bit. Idiotic, but not typically the fault of anyone actually perpetrating the stupidity (but rather some overcautious lawyer sometime in the past).
I usually just sign with my first name and a vCard.
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a "before printing, think about the environment" notice
I always consider the environment before printing out my email. Usually to decide whether or not I want to turn on color printing[1] to capture the fact that that line is usually in green text.
Our lease allows essentially unlimited B&W printing, but we pay for color toner used.
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What if you collect your email as a stack of printouts of Word documents copied and pasted from the email client? How else would you know who to reply to?
Mine has a logo, name, surname, department, position, mail address, phone numbers, company logo, 15 lines of legal cruft, full company name, address, registration number, and a "before printing, think about the environment" notice in it.
I don't think I've ever sent an email that actually took more space than the signature in it.
My email signature is 6 lines
- my Full name (which is misspelled. how'd i do that and how long has it been that way?)
- My job title
- Full company name
- my email address (because forwards often break that sort of thing
- Company Mailing address (mandated by company policy)
- My direct dial phone number (also mandated)
I also have it set up so that the email signature will be replaced with simply line 1 if i have replied to the email chain before so that i don't clutter up replies.
company policy mandates a bunch of other crap like you have in your email signature but only about 6 people in the company actually have all of that stuff. Most of us stick with what i have with minor variations (having the company website link is popular)
so i think i'm probably safe if anyone calls me on that policy violation. I'm far more likely to get in trouble for composing all my mail in purple text rather than standard black.
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I'm far more likely to get in trouble for composing all my mail in purple text rather than standard black.
And you would deserve it.
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i like purple.
i chose a medium-dark purple on white for text so it is readable, but visually distinct from the rest of the email thread. makes it easier to tell when i'm talking if we fold replies into the previous email (sometimes happens)
i was very careful to make sure my colour choice remained readable under most circumstances, including getting weigh in by several colourblind people to check it.
so why would i deserve it?
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i like purple!, is royal colour.
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should i switch to writing in pink then? and maybe do a CSS trick to make them sparkle?
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The evil ideas thread is around here somewhere
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is this the face of someone evil?
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And you would deserve it.
An email sin I have not seen for many years: Yellow text. People who did that should die a fiery death.
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Not necessarily evil, but most definitely mischievous.
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Not necessarily evil, but most definitely mischievous.
and i'm stealing that for my profile. i hope you don't mind...
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Of course I don't~
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excellent.
have a
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@Polygeekery said in LinkedIn needs...:
...a profile setting that says, "Do not send me email. Ever. Even if a loved one is in the hospital, I do not want you to send me email. Fucking ever. I don't care about work anniversaries or promotions of people that I never talk to. No email. At all. FOAD."
I report all of their emails as spam to GMail, I have set filters to send them to trash, I turn off all of their email functions every few months and they keep coming up with new types of mail and new ways to send them to me so that they get past spam filters.
I could use a "I like my job" switch, being able to set that to "on" would solve all or most of my specific problems.
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@Gribnit has discovered a thread with @blakeyrat in it and would love to see the clash of those titans of nonsense fuckery.
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@Polygeekery said in LinkedIn needs...:
@Gribnit has discovered a thread with @blakeyrat in it and would love to see the clash of those titans of nonsense fuckery.
Unbalanced.
I'm pretty sure blakey would throw a rage-fit (if he took the bait at all) while @gribnit would just ramble on, unimpressed.
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@HardwareGeek said in LinkedIn needs...:
@topspin said in LinkedIn needs...:
Unbalanced
Yes, they are, although in quite different ways.
VB can fuck your head pretty bad, but it's one-note compared to the damage a developed type-system can do.
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@topspin said in LinkedIn needs...:
Unbalanced.
I'm pretty sure blakey would throw a rage-fit (if he took the bait at all) while @gribnit would just ramble on, unimpressed.You're only making me want this spectacle to occur that much more. Blakey gets angry about everything and @Gribnit would not be able to be bothered about anything. It would be like a galaxy of matter and one of antimatter colliding.
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@Polygeekery said in LinkedIn needs...:
@topspin said in LinkedIn needs...:
Unbalanced.
I'm pretty sure blakey would throw a rage-fit (if he took the bait at all) while @gribnit would just ramble on, unimpressed.You're only making me want this spectacle to occur that much more. Blakey gets angry about everything and @Gribnit would not be able to be bothered about anything. It would be like a galaxy of matter and one of antimatter colliding.
I would have liked to see blakey meet levicki, but alas.
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blakey vs Gribnit would be way more tedious than you're all imagining.
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@loopback0 said in LinkedIn needs...:
@Gąska vs Gribnit would be way more tedious than you're all imagining.
I think the goal was entertainment, though.
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@loopback0 said in LinkedIn needs...:
blakey vs Gribnit would be way more tedious than you're all imagining.
Agreed, and if not I would see to it. The goal would First World War levels of mental scarring. Bystanders would shriek at the sight of a syllogism for, dunno, days. Maybe weeks.
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@loopback0 said in LinkedIn needs...:
blakey vs Gribnit would be way more tedious than you're all imagining.
Anything involving Gribnit is unimaginably tedious. Blakey would probably be entertaining, though.
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@HardwareGeek said in LinkedIn needs...:
@loopback0 said in LinkedIn needs...:
blakey vs Gribnit would be way more tedious than you're all imagining.
Anything involving Gribnit is unimaginably tedious. Blakey would probably be entertaining, though.
unless you pay very, very close attention to everything, you miss most of the jokes.
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@Gribnit said in LinkedIn needs...:
VB can fuck your head pretty bad
We've found an origin story here!
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@Gribnit said in LinkedIn needs...:
Bystanders would shriek at the sight of a syllogism
Syllogisms require two premises.
Therefore, this is not a syllogism.Like I said, syllogisms require two premises.
Now, this paragraph has a new proposition, for a total of two.
Therefore, this paragraph is a syllogism.
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@Polygeekery said in LinkedIn needs...:
Blakey gets angry about everything
Can confirm. My last interaction with him was him getting furious at me "lying" about him because he said that after Trump did something, he thinks even less of him than before, and later in another conversation I referenced it by saying "he hates Trump even more".
The really weird part was that five other people on the channel supported him and said I'm being an asshole and should stop lying about others. I've almost had a psychotic breakdown due to absurdity of the situation. It also led to a fun conversation with @sloosecannon where he invited me to an air show when they start happening again and I introduced him to Slate Star Codex literally one day before it went down. I also learned that day that @ender is one of those assholes who insists on writing his name in all lowercase even if it's at the beginning of sentence.
Oh also, one day I was randomly obsessively digging through Blakey's Discord history, and I found out that about half a year after he made his grand spectacle of a ragequit for real, he was still very much browsing the forum, and even made a rant about me. Remember when I had a very hard time finding a job and got so desperate I considered lying on my resume and EEO forms? Apparently it's impossible for anyone in this industry to be so unsuccessful and lack of degree shouldn't be a problem either so obviously I'm lying about everything.
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@Zecc said in LinkedIn needs...:
@Gribnit said in LinkedIn needs...:
Bystanders would shriek at the sight of a syllogism
Syllogisms require two premises.
Therefore, this is not a syllogism.Like I said, syllogisms require two premises.
Now, this paragraph has a new proposition, for a total of two.
Therefore, this paragraph is a syllogism.shrieks
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@Gąska waves
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@sloosecannon I guess this is oversharing thread now.
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@Gąska said in LinkedIn needs...:
lack of degree shouldn't be a problem
It shouldn't (necessarily) be a problem. A few decades ago, it wasn't. Today, you could be Saint Steve of Jobs himself and nobody would even see your resume because it wouldn't get past HR's automatic resume filtering software. OTOH, with the right degree, you can be an utter drooling idjit like @[redacted] and rated first-in-line for an interview.
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@HardwareGeek said in LinkedIn needs...:
@Gąska said in LinkedIn needs...:
lack of degree shouldn't be a problem
It shouldn't (necessarily) be a problem. A few decades ago, it wasn't. Today, you could be Saint Steve of Jobs himself and nobody would even see your resume because it wouldn't get past HR's automatic resume filtering software. OTOH, with the right degree, you can be an utter drooling idjit like @[redacted] and rated first-in-line for an interview.
And I often am! but I have a weaponized resume vs a degree. Also why would anyone want to hire Steve Jobs who's not Apple?