Comments on: What was he thinking?

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:18:26 +0000

Interestingly… Jack… the guy’s name was Jack.

By: jack thunder

jack thunder — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:25:25 +0000

as a staunch defender of selective unprofessionalism, i’m glad you didn’t narc on him. –jack

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:25 +0000

Your exactly right Jason. I replied back to the guy that I liked the quote, and he responded that he forget to delete it from his signature. He normally only uses it for internal emails. Which still doesn’t make him look very good to his management…

By: Jason Burgess

Jason Burgess — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:05:16 +0000

I started to make this comment first, and got distracted looking for the quote.

The problem usually comes from mixing work and personal emails. And from mixing intraoffice communication with communication with people outside the company.

I imagine most of the emails the guy sends are either to friends or to other people in the company. At least in some companies, a signature like that is fine for intraoffice emails. But then these people set it as their default signature and forget to remove or switch it when they send other emails.

By: Jason Burgess

Jason Burgess — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:57:40 +0000

It’s from a biography about him. He was reported to have said it when he was writing So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams#The_Hitchhiker.27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)