Oh, piss OFF!!
Some people really annoy me.
I received an email today and the sender had customised their signature to include their qualifications. I find this unutterably wanky*.
Why on earth would I care what you got for your degree? The membership of the professional body I’m going to overlook – that could conceivably be useful on a business email (it still makes you a ponce though). But your degree? What possible purpose does that serve, apart from saying “look! I went to university! And got quite good marks!” It’s the electronic equivalent of sewing your swimming badge on your trunks. I could care less that you have a degree. In fact, I am now irrationally annoyed at your pointing this out to me and, as such, am now deliberately not responding to you.
Should I do the same, I wonder? Should my email signature now look like this?
Rgds,
Surly Girl GCSE French, Grade C
or this?
Rgds,
Surly Girl Picked last for rounders, 1979
Or maybe
Rgds,
Surly Girl Form Captain (suspended after stamping on a drink carton in the bus queue and making Simon Teff cry, punished by having to hold Mrs Peters’ hand until the bus came), 1985
Ponce.
* I know, I know. Professional reputation and all that. You only do it because you're entitled to - you worked hard for that degree (nobody ever does it if they got a third in Media, I notice) so why shouldn't you use those letters after your name? I hear what you're saying. I still think it makes you look a bit of a twat though.
I received an email today and the sender had customised their signature to include their qualifications. I find this unutterably wanky*.
Why on earth would I care what you got for your degree? The membership of the professional body I’m going to overlook – that could conceivably be useful on a business email (it still makes you a ponce though). But your degree? What possible purpose does that serve, apart from saying “look! I went to university! And got quite good marks!” It’s the electronic equivalent of sewing your swimming badge on your trunks. I could care less that you have a degree. In fact, I am now irrationally annoyed at your pointing this out to me and, as such, am now deliberately not responding to you.
Should I do the same, I wonder? Should my email signature now look like this?
Rgds,
Surly Girl GCSE French, Grade C
or this?
Rgds,
Surly Girl Picked last for rounders, 1979
Or maybe
Rgds,
Surly Girl Form Captain (suspended after stamping on a drink carton in the bus queue and making Simon Teff cry, punished by having to hold Mrs Peters’ hand until the bus came), 1985
Ponce.
* I know, I know. Professional reputation and all that. You only do it because you're entitled to - you worked hard for that degree (nobody ever does it if they got a third in Media, I notice) so why shouldn't you use those letters after your name? I hear what you're saying. I still think it makes you look a bit of a twat though.
posted by surly girl at 6:59 pm
26 Comments:
It's OK if you're a doctor or a professor, but anything else is just tragic.
LC BSC (Bronze Swimming Certificate)
this guy was a glorified estate agent, yet still felt compelled to advertise his glittering university career. twat. i'm glad i ignored him.
i was never picked last for rounders, more the case that i was the last one standing and was therefore pushed into the reluctant arms of the team who had lost the coin toss at the beginning
UC
scottish swimmer, BAGA three award, both 1982
There should only be anything like that on there is it relevant to the job they're doing and then only in a business e-mail.
Do people still give out business cards or are email signatures the new business cards or something?
Suggestion for the car:
How about some AC/DC?
LOL!
If I'd ended up as a *glorified estate agent* I'd be embarassed to admit I started off with a degree.
But maybe I think that because I have no degree and couldn't sell a treehouse to a monkey for peanuts.
And if I did have a degree I'd never be able to remember which letters I was supposed to use or what date it was anyway.
it is sort of sentitious, isn't it? like "I was a GOOD girl and paid ATTENTION in school, see?"
pft; screw ya.
now now surly, let the small people have their day in the sun,
Kyahgirl
dropped out of University the first time due to too much partying-1979
It's like the guys with personalised number plates - I just see 'twat' when I see them.
Kind Regards
tom909, 9'O'levels.
I fucked about at school, took loads of exams and failed them all !!!
Nice post,
Wyndham, shortest boy in school but still spent every lunchtime in goal
I totally agree.
Donna DD3 BR (Disco Dancing III - Blue Riband (that's a special award for being extra specially good (1981)))
he's got a really small penis, it's just cos he can't show you his car in an email
zanna - certificate for diving to the bottom of swimming pool in my pj's to pick up brick
Tosser.
Spinny (Silver Medal for 6-hand-reel, Attical Feis, 1982.)
I think Spinny wins on the grounds of having the most confusing qualification ever.
Frangelita - came third out of four in the freestyle 25m swimming, 1994
wv - pckablkn - pack a book in
"I've seen your qualifications, you got a Ph.D.
I've got one art O-level, it did nothing for me...
Working for the rat race
You know you're wasting your time
Working for the rat race
You're no friend of mine."
Sorry, has no relevance. You just got me singing it.
i got kicked out of school three times, what do i put?
ace (almost) MSc. MA. MP.
Sorry:
Feis - Irish for festival or competition or something
6-hand-reel - An Irish dance done by 6 people
Attical - a VERY small village somewhere in N.I. There wasn't much competition.
Spinny (Irish A-level, Grade D, 1993)
In view of your blog, I've decided to reinterpret my letters:
B.Sc. = Bull Schitt
M.S = More Shit
Ph.D = Piled Higher and Deeper
Stu (failed to swim the across the local river let alone the channel; I'm good in bed though (can sleep for DAYS!)).
Bloody hell. You lot just can't wait to flash your credentials around.
Look at me, I haven't, I win, hurrah!
ps. That was from me;
FT Nat dip., Ba(hons)., ABBA, RAC, BBC, OCD, STD
I could use this:
Kellycat, BA (Hons)Media and Cultural Studies
or I could use this:
Kellycat, 34D
Worryingly, I think the second would get me a better career.
I used to be a recruiter, so I was always getting an interesting and steady stream of resumes (CV's) in my inbox. One that stands out was a fairly demented individual who had at the top of his resume: "4.0 GPA all through college. What was your GPA?"
a grammar pedant springs:
"I could care less that you have a degree" or "I couldn't care less that you have a degree"
Are you American perchance?
elephant (expelled from ballet class, 1970, first prize, New Woman InWear competition 1990, "shallow and speculative" - CIPR diploma essay 2005)
surly, the comments on this post are brilliant. Whenever I want a laugh I'll come back here and read them.
Kyah BSCC dropout.
(Belgian Sheepdog club of Canada)
*woof*
Yes it is majorly twaty. I think people who put their qualifications on name cards are bad enough, let alone emails (absolutely horrified that my parents reamed me out about not having mine on my card)
IB
Champion Dog Bark Impersonator, 1988, Grade School
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