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It’s the Most Mundane Part of Any Job. Workers Are Getting Increasingly, Um, Expressive With It.

Slate Magazine·Alison Green·about 1 month ago
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Work Email Signatures Gone Wild The way people sign their messages is becoming increasingly amusing. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In  Direct Report , she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better. This is part of  Breakup Week . We just can’t do this anymore. A workplace email signature is normally the most forgettable part of a message—just a name, a title, a phone number, and maybe a logo dutifully appended by IT. It’s boilerplate by design, stripped of personality and meant to fade into the background. Most of the time, companies standardize their email signatures and expect employees to use a corporate template.…

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