For every company I've ever worked for, that was always voluntary. You don't think it's wrong to require people to stop who want to keep doing it? There can be good reasons for it.
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I think that it's the employer's prerogative to dictate letterheads, power point color pallets, zoom backgrounds, email signatures used for official communication. Do whatever you want with your personal communication.
Edit: the company that i work for now in fact, a while back sent and email out on blast dictating exactly what your sig block will look like and the info it contains. Got rid of all the stupid shit that people were putting in their emails (pronouns, bible verses, quotes etc. ). Now everyone looks the same and emails sig blocks look professional.
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I think an employer that requires you not to is an asshole.
We have a vendor and their main contact is named Kelly. Everyone in our company who emailed with Kelly assumed he was a female and when we corresponded with his co-workers, we referred to him as she/her. It wasn't until one day that I picked up the phone and called him that I realized he was a male. Just saying, it would have been helpful to know that so we weren't embarrassing ourselves. I just don't see what the big deal is.
Ha. I think a Kelly may have gotten me too a while back. I think tha the whole "pronoun" thing is tied to having a million and one genders and other craziness, so easist to just say "no" one time with a blanket policy.
Whew wee, a million is a lot a lot! How do you get that many unless you exponentially add more gonads? Guess I've got some studying up to do so I don't mis-gender somebody ;-).
I hear what you're saying but a signature harms nothing and can be helpful in some circumstances, so I think they're taking this way too far. Though I suspect they hope people who are bothered by it will leave.
I don't think that this is that big of a deal, but I can definitely see how it dovetails into the overall initiative that is being pursued. The admin is being thorough. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on your POV, of course.
I don't think that getting people to quit was of primary concern, but if you are bothered that much by this and you do, I 100% think that the admin would view it as a positive.
Besides it being Trump's administration, it sounds like it would be a terrible place to work with so many mandates and micro-management. I've been fortunate that I've been able to work from home most of my career outside of my six-year stint at the Home Depot Corp office, plus a short time with my current job until they closed the Atlanta office. Freedom is everything to me so I'd never make it there haha.
