to despise silly email "stationary" at work?

[StuckinTheMiddlewithYou]

Why do people do it?

How on earth do you expect to be taken seriously in any kind of professional context, when you're sending emails with a pink background and pretendy joined up writing?

The job I do can sometimes involve highly sensitive and often deepy tragic information, yet some people still feel the need to have "cheery" email stationary.

It makes you like a pillock. Stop it.

Unreasonable or not?

YANBU - I hate it too!

Its childish and unprofessional, emails for work purposes should be easy to read and plain.

Not.

It's annoying, and makes me think people have got a leetle too much time on their hands...

YANBU

I judge people as wankers if they use strange fonts etc.

Someone sent me an email with a smiley face on the end the other day. It is so unprofessional.

does it just sit around all day doing nothing

ooo the irony!

Oh well I was in rant mode!

Well yes, it sits in my inbox not being processed for longer than it would if didn't look like a gypsy wedding dress!

I read the op as smelly e-mail. Must make that appointment at the opticians.

Should be banned. We have a corporate email sign off at work so everyone's should be the same.

Oh, and I used to piss myself when the person at work used to send a round robin email request for any "stationary" orders at work

YANBU

I hate it too. But I love reading autosignatures. Especially those with Comic Sans, creative job titles and all qualifications since the age of 5.

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too much time n their hands! All of our admin workers, including the office manager, have silly email affectations that change on a regular basis. One finds animated pictures for whatever she's emailing about.

I actually don't hink they have too much time on their hands, they work really hard. But it still looks silly.

YANBU - I have some colleagues using 'pretty' background colours AND adding moving things/faces/animals, animations.

I have just started with a major organisation and am amazed that they don't have standard email signatures, so lots of plain text, swirly writing, odd fonts etc

v unprofessional

Cant help to wonder wher eyou all work as I havent ever seen this laughs

Oh dear I thought you were complaining about them just spelling it wrong!

The way I remember it is 'e' for envelope (stationery)

I've never known why anyone would want to send those fucking awful, all-singing, all-dancing, excuses for email that are silly stationery. It's bad enough that people use it for personal email but the very idea that a company would permit it astonishes me.

Fortunately, using a Mac means that it spits on stupid stationery since all my emails come in plain text format.