What point out of nowhere did you know you were getting old?

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  1. Simon Templar

    Simon Templar Well-Known Member
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    Never seeing pronouns in an auto signature is wild to me.

    my brother worked at Discover for a long time and they started their meetings with Name, Pronouns and a description of themselves for those that were visually impaired which was a new one for me

    “Hi, I’m Simon Templar, he/him, I’m a Caucasian man with short hair, and I’m wearing a black sweatshirt”
     
  2. Greybeard

    Greybeard Livin' the dream.

    Admittedly out of touch retired old timer. Thanks for the modern day reality check.
     
  3. Greybeard

    Greybeard Livin' the dream.

    Part of complete signature. I'm a dinosaur I guess. Carry on.
     
  4. The Hebrew Husker

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    I can only imagine the uproar from some of the clowns I work with if they had to do even the name/pronoun thing before a meeting.
     
  5. ~ taylor ~

    ~ taylor ~ not affiliated with Taylor Swift
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    Pronouns are the default in our full email signatures since last year. Name, title, office location, direct dial, main dial, company logo and pronouns.
     
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  6. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    And inspirational quote in a fun font, right?
     
  7. Boo MFer!

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    **PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS**
     
  8. chet fire

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    What, no Indigenous land acknowledgement?
     
  9. infected donkey

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    The other night the seat heaters in the truck to go run errands felt amazing on my back.
     
  10. ~ taylor ~

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    No, but that would be pretty great.
     
  11. Daniel Ocean

    Daniel Ocean I only lied about being a thief
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    I’ve never encountered anyone who has an issue with someone using their pronouns. Someone using it as part of their email signature seems so inconsequential that idk why it would bother you.
     
  12. Blu Tang Clan

    Blu Tang Clan Sorry for partying
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    Yeah, it’s a really fucking stupid thing to be pissed about.
     
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  13. Beachy Toast

    Beachy Toast He wants you too, Malachi.
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  14. Boo MFer!

    Boo MFer! No longer a cog in some powerhouse machine
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  15. herb.burdette

    herb.burdette Meet me at the corner of 8th and Worthington
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    Stacy’s mom is a grandma now, and some 13 year old dating her granddaughter is singing about Stacy.
     
  16. steamengine

    steamengine I don’t want to press one for English!
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    The patriarchy is alive and well in Daniel Ocean
     
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  17. steamengine

    steamengine I don’t want to press one for English!
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    Let me introduce you to the people who are destroying their keurigs and canceling Bud light
     
  18. Constant

    Constant Meh
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    Must be nice to never even encounter assholes/bigots/rednecks/rwnj's. You must lead a very sheltered life.
     
  19. Fuzzy Zoeller

    Fuzzy Zoeller College football > NFL
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    Took 8 months off from playing basketball, then played 3 times in a week. Now, two days later, I can barely walk.
     
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  20. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    Stacy’s daughter is prob busted at this point
     
  21. herb.burdette

    herb.burdette Meet me at the corner of 8th and Worthington
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    I can’t seem to find it now, but in 2020, someone did a spoof of older people following conspiracies on Facebook called Stacy’s Mom Follows QAnon.

    Seemed appropriate.
     
  22. Daniel Ocean

    Daniel Ocean I only lied about being a thief
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    i do live in a small bubble. I just have been lucky enough to never run across someone like that in real life. Maybe I know someone that it bothers but every one I know in real life knows how I am and probably wouldn’t tell me if they felt that way.
     
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  23. Truman

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  24. BuckeyeRiot

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    Living in LA (I think) probably contributes significantly to this.
     
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  25. Daniel Ocean

    Daniel Ocean I only lied about being a thief
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    west LA might even be a little more liberal/progressive
     
  26. Hank Scorpio

    Hank Scorpio Globex Corporation, Philanthropist, Supervillain
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    I had a real bad sciatica flare up in early March that I thought I was finally on the other side of after 2 months of physical therapy.

    Well that was until around 4am this morning when I apparently rolled in bed the wrong way. Now I'm in immense pain again.
     
  27. The Blackfish

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    Yeah never encountering someone bitching about pronouns is wild. Now to be fair I live in Alabama and work in a more rural area so it’s ubiquitous. We had to take a morale survey recently and it gave like 5 gender options and people were in an uproar.
     
  28. Celemo

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    I've started keeping a handkerchief on my person
     
  29. Constant

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    Gentleman.
     
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  30. Celemo

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    gonna lean into it a little, maybe get a couple monogrammed
     
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  31. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    Have you considered pairing it with a pocket watch?
     
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  32. Constant

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    Never know when a nearby lady might be a little verklempt.
     
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  33. Celemo

    Celemo red hot & rollin’
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    Hosting Kendall’s HS grad party today has got me feeling ancient.
     
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  34. ats

    ats I heard Vance and all of Ohio love couches

    this could’ve been an email and WAS

    (too lazy to change the font do a different color but this one actually makes me chuckle when I see it)
     
  35. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    Im noticing it more often in professional emails in the engineering world, but it’s still not that common. It has been useful a time or two with someone who had a gender neutral name.

    I’d 10000x prefer a simple pronoun clarification than the fucking ten lines of corp marketing and embedded images.
     
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  36. Lip

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    what was the spread

    did she draw any pics for us
     
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  37. Boo MFer!

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    Jason’s son.

     
  38. brahmanknight

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    In my company (IKEA), very much so.
     
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  39. The Guglia

    The Guglia I Work in the City, and I Work Long Hours.
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  40. Simon Templar

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    Pronouns is a required part of our email signatures because we are DE&I All Stars
     
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  41. ClemPson

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    We have had pronouns in our signatures for years and I’ve never thought about people getting mad about it. We operate and have offices worldwide so it really helps to know who you are speaking to when the other person is not Jim, Sue, or some other Anglo-Saxon name.
     
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  42. southlick

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  43. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    This post.
     
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  44. Daniel Ocean

    Daniel Ocean I only lied about being a thief
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  45. Shiggityshwo

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    Radiohead's really starting to click with me
     
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  46. BayouMafia

    BayouMafia Thought Leader in Posting
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    Yesterday I was explaining to a 23 year old employee about life before cell phones. The idea of going to a phone on the wall, looking up a number on the paper your mom had hanging on the wall, and calling to ask to speak to someone blew his mind.
     
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  47. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    Going to summer camp and having a calling card to use at the pay phones

    Gone like tears in the rain
     
  48. poor paul

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    Was getting pay phone updates from a weekend Christian camp when Clint Stoerner fumbled in ‘98.
     
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  49. Redav

    Redav mostly cows and rocks
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    I've read old posters on home board talk about calling a 900 number back in the day for recruiting news. That sounds so sad but I'm not sure what I did was any better
     
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  50. Constant

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    After I moved out west in the late 80's, my Domer pops would cut all the Mich recruiting stories out of the Detroit papers on natl signing day and mail them to me.
     
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