E-mail senders enclosing the phrase Consider the environment before printing this e-mail at the end - you are trying my patience.
OK, you sent me an e-mail. OK, I’m considering the environment. Now what?
Maybe if you sent me shorter e-mails without unnecessary additions to your already abundant signature, it wouldn’t take so many sheets to print your damn e-mail in the first place.
[…] statement at the end of e-mails Consider the environment before printing this e-mail has is now being rephrased as Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! (Like I […]
Trying My Patience » Blog Archive » Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to!
June 30th, 2008
It appears these people using that tag line weren’t too concerned about the hundreds of thousands of murdered trees holding up the communication lines used to transfer their email along the highways and byways to their destination.
Autumn Red
July 14th, 2008
There are clearly many ways in which the environment is being damaged and the average person usually isn’t an eco warrior who is going to personally change the fact there are “murdered trees holding up the communication lines used to transfer their email along the highways and byways” but raising awareness not to print uneccasarily is a simple thing that everyone can do, so give people a break who are trying to re-educate others that not everything is needed in hard copy, like the old days. And for all you know the people with the tag at the end of their email may also be lobbying to stop the murdering of trees and other large scale environmental issues and this is just a tiny part of what they are doing for the environment. Save your negativity for people you are intentionally out there to do harm, not people that are trying to do good - even if it is in a very small way.
Girl
August 1st, 2008