Thursday, December 17, 2009

Someone Is Going to Read That

For the last two weeks or so I have had a temp. job in where I am filing. Just filing. Nothing else. When filing for eight hours a day you begin to notice certain things.

  • Paper makes your hands dry.
  • The bottom two drawers of a filing cabinet are at a horrible height no matter how you try and position yourself.
  • Sitting on the ground filing is never dignified.
  • People get terminated from their jobs for some CrAzY reasons.
  • People have no idea how to print.
Print Your Name:

What does that mean? It means PRINT!! Printing means that none of the letter touch. That there are no loops. There are no flourishes. Nothing. Ideally it should look like a typewriter print. It should not look like you spent all of fifth period sixth grade earth science perfecting just the best way to write your A's.

No.

When you print your name anyone should be able to read it. Printing your name does not mean that you, your wife, and your mommy can discern what chicken scratch you just composed. No! Printing your name means that ANYONE should be able to read it. Even Stevie Frickin' Wonder.

So remember the next time you are filling out a standardized form that some poor temp., working far too hard for far too little money, is going to be filing that form away sometime in the near future.

So please print your name so that I can read it.

Please.

1 comments:

Sid said...

Does "print" imply all caps? My dad tried to convince me of that once, but I figured it just meant "not cursive" at the time.