People who sign emails with their educational credentials (below doctoral status)....

[NewWaveChick1981]

...are really annoying. :grr: I just got an email from someone whose email signature is "(Insert name here), M.Ed." :eyes: Pompous much???? :shrug:

I have two bachelor's degrees and a Master of Education degree, but the thought never crossed my mind to add those to my signature. Maybe I should sign every email like this: "NewWaveChick1981, BA, BS, M.Ed.". :P :rofl: Yeah, like THAT'LL happen.... :rofl:

[AllegroRondo]

1. I just sign mine "BS, BS, BS"

because most of my emails are full of it anyway.

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. ..

:spray: :rofl: :P

[LibertyLover]

3. Hmm, I've got two Master's degrees

so, technically I could sign myself "X, AB (the way my school preferred to abbreviate bachelor of arts degree), MA, MA". Ouch, that hurts to even contemplate.

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. Yep.

:hi: :P :rofl: Imagine signing your checks that way too....x(

[LibertyLover]

29. No thanks,

When I worked as a legal assistant at a New York City law firm, I was required to become a notary. Like an idiot, I registered my full name - some 24 letters split between a double first name, a middle name and my surname. Boy was I sorry when a few months after that I had to notarize approximately 700 documents, most multiple times, as part of a real estate sale leaseback transaction. During the time I was at that firm, this same client did the same thing 2 more times, with approximately the same number of properties (meaning the same number of documents to be notarized each time)and because I had notarized the first batch, I was drafted to do the 2nd and 3rd closings too. The worst part? - it wasn't for my assigned work group and I got into trouble with the paralegal supervisor for helping out. I learned about registering the whole name, let me tell you. I couldn't be bothered with all the frou-frou letters that I could put afterwards - it would take too long to write.

[Ptah]

5. Mr. Ed does e-mail? Who knew?

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. Hey, he's a contemporary talking horse.

He's hip! :P

[MrCoffee]

7. i'm gonna start doing that

MrCoffee, BS, BS, J.D., Esq.


i'm not pompous, just bad ass

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. Where did you get your Esq. degree?

:shrug: :P :rofl:

[MrCoffee]

9. when i renewed my subscription

thank you, i'll be here all week, tip your waitresses!

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. So it's a mail-order degree....

:P :rofl: :hi: I thought as much....

[NightWatcher]

11. I'm gonna START doing that from now on.

what's the code for "some graduate work, but WAY short of the degree"?

or the abbreviation for "paying student loans til doomsday"?

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. Hmmm....I'll have to check on that....

:rofl: :hi:

[Momgonepostal]

34. Me too! just sign me:

Momgonepostal, B.S.B.N.A.W.I.A.F.W.M.D.M.O.T.E.C.W.I.H.O.O.N.

(that's Bachelor of Science, but never actually worked in a firm where my degree mattered or they even cared whether I had one or not.)

[FloridaJudy]

53. ABD

"All but the degree"

I've got BA, MEd, BSN, MN. All it indicates is that it took a looong time for me to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. I sign mine with my doctoral status because they are also work related.

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. I can totally understand doctoral status.

You can actually call yourself Dr. Midlodemocrat. :) I have no problem with anyone who has achieved doctoral status (Ph.D, Ed.D., MD, etc.) including that in their signature. But for someone like me to include my master's degree in my signature seems ridiculous.

[MrCoffee]

17. JD is a friggin doctoral degree!

it's got Doctor right in the title!!!

[NewWaveChick1981]

18. But do you call yourself DrCoffee? I think not.

:P Did you have to defend your coffee dissertation or do residency at Starbucks?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

57. I've got one of dem Juris Doctors pieces o'paper meself!!

As well as an A.A.S. (Associate of Applied Science) which was vocational school and difficult, and the only degree that got me a job.

And also a B.A. which stands for Bad Ass.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. In my office, we have a ton of people with JDs, PhDs, etc.

and the powers that be kind of encourage it for us to do that. :eyes:

IRL, I'm not Dr. Midlo, I'm Mrs. Midlo to the kids' friends. I'm not practicing, so I think it's kind of pretentious to insist that they call me that. Usually they call me Mama G. or hey you. :shrug:

[LaraMN]

15. Oh, I am SO going to start signing correspondences with

"LaraMN, AA, H.S."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. ...

:rofl: :hi: That kinda has a ring to it...

[Tyler Durden]

19. "BMOC and a BMF besides!"

I think the third or fourth time someone signs like that, they should be required to have it tattooed on their ASS.

[NewWaveChick1981]

21. Excellent suggestion!

:rofl: :thumbsup: We need to add BFF to the list too...:rofl:

[DS1]

22. I have a BA in Leftist Liberal Studies

But, I don't think I'd sign any professional emails with that.

[NewWaveChick1981]

24. Go ahead,....I dare ya!

:rofl: You'd definitely have BALLS....:rofl:

[ohiosmith]

23. So,..I should quit signing OhioSmith MS, WS, PS? I worked my ass off to get through

wood shop, metal shop, and print shop.

[Burma Jones]

25. The owner of my firm is a certified Program Management Professional and affixes PMP to his sig line

which is kinda appropriate since he rents me out and takes a cut.........

I have a PhD in Computing and use the sig in professional life and I do insist that my kids call me "Dr. Father" and occasionally "O Venerable Father", but their friends just call me weird.

[SteppingRazor]

26. There's no way I could do that, and not even for the obvious reason of avoiding pretension.

I got my bachelor's in journalism from the University of Missouri, where the J School is a completely separate entity from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thus, I don't have a BA in journalism or a BS in journalism. See where this is going?






There's no way I'm signing my name "SteppingRazor, BJ."
:P

[southpaw]

27. How 'bout 'Doctoral Double-Dipping'

A colleague of mine refers to herself as Dr. Jane Doe, Ed.D

What? Does she chair the department of redundancy department?

*Names have been changed to protect the pathetically pretentious.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

56. Doctorates in education....hmmm

The people I've know who have them, to put it politely, seem to be complete idiots.

Why I do not know. Why is education such a dippy major?

[KitchenWitch]

28. I think it is pompous even when they have their doctorate

But I have issues with authority...

[mitchum]

55. That's because it IS pompous (n/t)

[One_Life_To_Give]

30. Cutural Difference perhaps?

I know in Germany it is concidered normal to include all of the titles. Such as Professor, Doctor, Doctor so and so. Or the more common Dipl. Eng. So and So.

[momophile]

31. maybe I'll add RPCV

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. We use it amongst ourselves usually with the place and years. So maybe I'll be

momophile,BA,RPCV Tonga 99-01,MS

[mike_c]

32. I would like everyone to refer to me as "Herr Doctor Professor mike_c..."

...from now on. With downcast eyes.

[XemaSab]

35. D.Bug.

:P

[mike_c]

37. I'll make an exception in your case because I like you....

But don't abuse the privilege.

[momto3]

33. Well, it is common place to do that in my field.

But I only do it in my science email signature. As for my username (PhDmom), I did not choose it to be pretentious. It just happens that being a mom and achieving my PhD are the 2 things I am most proud of accomplishing to date. And btw, I am a bit more proud of being a mom!

Peace.

[RetroLounge]

36. I am going to sign mine that way...

:hi:

RL - BBA, MA, BFD

[KitchenWitch]

40. BFD = Big Fucking Deal?

[RetroLounge]

48. Exactly...

:hi:

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. Professor Sir Adrian Furrows F.R.S.

F.R.C.S. F.R.C.P. M.D.M.S. (Oxon), Mall Ph.D., M. Se. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Syd), ER.G.S., F.R.C.O.G., F. FM.R.C.S., M.S. (Birm), M.S. (Liv), M.S. (Guadalahara), M.S. (Karach), M.S. (Edin), B.A. (Chic), B. Litt. (Phil), D. Litt (Phil), D. Litt (Arthur and Lucy), D. Litt (Ottawa), D. Litt (All other places in Canada except Medicine Hat), B. Sc. 9 Brussels, Liege, Antwerp, Asse, (and Grower).







:hi:

[NewJeffCT]

39. how about things like CPA or CFA or other credentials?

is that acceptable to you?

[triguy46]

41. Those are entirely appropriate in a professional setting.

[NewWaveChick1981]

43. Absolutely.

Professional credentials aren't in question here at all.

[Giant Robot]

42. And I also put my state licensure credentials in there too!

That's how annoying I am.

[yellowcanine]

44. I think putting Ph.D. behind your name is ostentatious in a social or informal setting as well.

If it is professional correspondence where the degree matters or if you are putting some know it all in his place - fine. But otherwise - no Ph.D. and no Dr. in front either.
(in social situations Dr. is for a medical doctor)

[NewWaveChick1981]

45. OK, everyone. My original post says it best.

I think in a general setting, attaching the abbreviations for educational credentials below a doctoral level is ridiculous. This does NOT apply to professional credentials, only academic degrees. :)

Love,

NewWaveChick1981, BA, BS, M.Ed., BFF, TTYL

[Crabby Appleton]

47. BBF - You used to work at Burger Boy Food-O-Rama?

http://columbusrestauranthistory.com/restaurant/BBF.htm

[Eurobabe]

46. Just lie and say you have a Ph. D.

"piled high and deep."

I save my MA for only special circumstances.

[Fox Mulder]

49. If I had a Master's degree, I'd do that.

[wain]

50. how about someone touting the title "Dr"

when it was received as an honorary degree?

If you're really good, you don't need to tell everyone about it. If you're not, then you do.

[SPKrazy]

51. I sign with mine

my degree and license

pompous? I think you could easily sign with your M.Ed. and not be thought of as pompous.

Seriously..

:hi:

[Critters2]

52. I use "The Rev." when it's something really official,

or when I want to be taken seriously. Because, as it turns out, people don't always take me seriously. Odd, no?

[D-U-D-E]

54. what if your Doctor of Philosophy is in Music

and you are a Financial Planner? I know two guys who fit that mode and its downright deceptive in one case (read: pompous ass) and the other guy is straight up about it.

for the Record I could add MBA to mine but I don't see the point. I do have prof. Certification's which I am obligated to display.