The lawyer that stole Christmas
If you’ve ever received an email from a corporate email account, you’ll probably have seen those legal blurbs at the bottom. You know the “this message is for the intended recipient only, if you’ve received it in error, please delete it, then get that Men In Black thing and wipe your brain or else you’ll be turned into salt…” Basically stuff the lawyers dreamed up to help everyone feel safer.
So I just got an e-mail, and it’s a pretty festive picture with best wishes for the holidays and all that warm goodness we all want this time of the year, but it’s over powered by all the legalese. I’m not kidding. It’s not in small print hidden discreetly at the bottom - it’s a huge block of text to the right side of the image. In fact your eye goes right to it, expecting it to be a warm message.
In it, there’s a part “If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e-mail messages…” Yeesh, it’s a holiday message - did they ever use to warn us against paper cuts for the traditional cards? “If you have a fear of paper cuts, or the associated risks of handling large festive communiqués, you may be able to request The Jones family and it’s associated siblings to choose another method of well wishing”.
I also wonder, if you’re not the intended recipient, should you ignore those holiday wishes? “If you’re not a client, we don’t have any comment about the season for you … please keep moving along and don’t look at the festive tree image. You can glance at the bunnies, but that’s it.”
An with that silliness, let me leave you all (both friends, and whoever else stumbles across this) with this little greeting:
Festive wishes to you
At this time of year
Unless you’re not the intended recipient
In which case, we were never here.
So I just got an e-mail, and it’s a pretty festive picture with best wishes for the holidays and all that warm goodness we all want this time of the year, but it’s over powered by all the legalese. I’m not kidding. It’s not in small print hidden discreetly at the bottom - it’s a huge block of text to the right side of the image. In fact your eye goes right to it, expecting it to be a warm message.
In it, there’s a part “If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e-mail messages…” Yeesh, it’s a holiday message - did they ever use to warn us against paper cuts for the traditional cards? “If you have a fear of paper cuts, or the associated risks of handling large festive communiqués, you may be able to request The Jones family and it’s associated siblings to choose another method of well wishing”.
I also wonder, if you’re not the intended recipient, should you ignore those holiday wishes? “If you’re not a client, we don’t have any comment about the season for you … please keep moving along and don’t look at the festive tree image. You can glance at the bunnies, but that’s it.”
An with that silliness, let me leave you all (both friends, and whoever else stumbles across this) with this little greeting:
Festive wishes to you
At this time of year
Unless you’re not the intended recipient
In which case, we were never here.