• WernerCD (unregistered)

    [X] This first post is fake (Just trying to get some free swag)

  • unekdoud (unregistered)

    [x] My company doesn't think the frist post is important enough to reply to.

  • Anomaly (unregistered)

    [x] I ran out of first posts

  • (cs)

    Come on, Alex: how could you forget to link your souvenir/date with Irish Girl?!

  • Melnorme (unregistered)

    Hey, "Rubbishsoft" actually have a website.

  • Scumop (unregistered)

    Even photographed the card on a wooden table.

  • (cs)
    TFA:
    even scoring some pity points from the opposite sex
    Desperate?
  • Analist (unregistered)

    [X] Brilliant!

  • XXXXX (unregistered)

    [X] I don't think you're important enough for a real card

  • anon (unregistered)

    I'm using this because [X] If I gave you a real business card, you might get confused and think it's acceptable to call me.

  • Ed (unregistered)

    What's funnier is the presence of a WTF in the Inedo site - it requires two lines in the address field to ship you the cards, regardless of the need for a second line.

  • Niki (unregistered)

    When a coworker of mine left, I inherited his desk and found a box of his business cards. When I need some business cards, I simple take some of his, cross his name out and put mine.

  • (cs) in reply to Analist
    Analist:
    [X] Brillant!

    Fixed that for ya.

  • Dave (unregistered)

    The free sample form doesn't seem to work. :(

  • Mr. S (unregistered)

    Glad to see you used the proper Wooden Table protocol.

  • josh (unregistered)

    address line 2 is required on the order form. hmm

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered)

    I am SO going to use the LongGuid in my next project!

  • (cs)

    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.

  • John Smith (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.

    Plz send me teh cards. Thank.

  • (cs)

    There should be a check box for "My business cards are out of date." Happens to us students a lot -- I once ordered 500 business cards from a promotional offer, and had only given 10 or 20 of them out when my dad kicked me out of the house where I was spending my summers. (He later backed down, but by then I'd decided I wanted to move. Then there was the internship in California....)

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.
    Last time my previous employer handed out business cards, it was followed by a move to a new office, and all the phone numbers changed. Cue industry meeting where all the tech people from this Fortune 100 company are passing out cards with the phone number crossed out and rewritten by hand.
  • (cs) in reply to Niki
    Niki:
    When a coworker of mine left, I inherited his desk and found a box of his business cards. When I need some business cards, I simple take some of his, cross his name out and put mine.
    My brother left his job a few months ago but had like 600 business cards left, so I took some of his, crossed his name, telephone and company logo and put mine.
  • Dan Neely (unregistered)

    How many of these cards do we actually get for free?

  • PRMan (unregistered)

    You forgot:

    [X] I'm a contractor, so the IRS won't let me have them or else they'll count me as an employee.

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to PRMan
    PRMan:
    You forgot:

    [X] I'm a contractor, so the IRS won't let me have them or else they'll count me as an employee.

    Win ^^

    Usually people look at you funny when you hand them a card from your numbered corporation...

    3827123 Inc.

    Bob Smith - President (really)

  • Marvin the Martian (unregistered) in reply to Mr. S
    Mr. S:
    Glad to see you used the proper Wooden Table Format protocol.
    FTFY
  • Bentley (unregistered) in reply to HellKarnassus
    HellKarnassus:
    Niki:
    When a coworker of mine left, I inherited his desk and found a box of his business cards. When I need some business cards, I simple take some of his, cross his name out and put mine.
    My brother left his job a few months ago but had like 600 business cards left, so I took some of his, crossed his name, telephone and company logo and put mine.
    I just happened to get a used desk with some business cards in it. When I need them, I just cross out the name, address, phone, e-mail, logo and whiteout the background color, then rewrite with my name, address, phone, e-mail and redraw the background with a highlighter. I made up some stickers with our logo to stick on them. Also, the size is too big so I also trim an edge with some scissors.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.
    _________________________________________ | | HackSoft Hyderabad - Fast, Cheap, Right | Pick First Two, We Only Do First Two | | Nagesh Kukunoor | Janitor |________________________________________
  • GWO (unregistered)
    As you may have noticed, I am a big fan of souvenirs, trinkets, and tchotchkes.

    Oh, yeah. Well Joanie loves tchotchkes.

  • XXXXX (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.

    In the US we can live without Business Cards. They aren't that important, except to enter into fishbowl contests. In other parts of the world showing up to any business function without cards is like showing up on a date without genitalia. In the US, except for Christian Bale, we don't measure ourselves by the quality of our cards.

  • (cs)

    I filled out the form(*) and asked for some. Thanks for the swag, Alex and Inedo.

    (*) With real details and everything! That's the first time I've filled out a webform with real information in aaaaaaages! Kinda important if you're hoping to receive something through the post though... in fact now I come to think of it, last time I used my real info on the net was for the free MFD stickers....

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.
    _________________________________________ | | HackSoft Hyderabad - Fast, Cheap, Right | Pick First Two, We Only Do First Two | | Nagesh Kukunoor | Janitor |________________________________________

    Burning with jealosy so much?

  • Billy Goat Gruff #1 (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Anonymous:
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.
    _________________________________________ | | HackSoft Hyderabad - Fast, Cheap, Right | Pick First Two, We Only Do First Two | | Nagesh Kukunoor | Janitor |________________________________________

    Burning with jealosy so much?

    Pursuant to yesterday's point, I have to say Troll. Thanks for reminding us, Nagesh.

  • trwtf (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.
    _________________________________________ | | HackSoft Hyderabad - Fast, Cheap, Right | Pick First Two, We Only Do First Two | | Nagesh Kukunoor | Janitor |________________________________________
    *tips hat* well done good sir, another monitor ruined!
    Nagesh:
    Burning with janitory so much?
    FTFY Nagesh ol' buddy!
  • Machtyn (unregistered)
    They're perfect for scoring swag at conferences, entering random fishbowl drawings

    If the card has fake info on it, how do you enter the card for random fishbowl drawings and expect to win?

    (Yes, I can think of some kludgy ways around this predicament.)

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    I am SO going to use the LongGuid in my next project!

    Has nobody else clued in yet?

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    C-Octothorpe:
    I am SO going to use the LongGuid in my next project!

    Has nobody else clued in yet?

    Nobody is interested, so quit while you stay ahead.

  • Engrish (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    C-Octothorpe:
    C-Octothorpe:
    I am SO going to use the LongGuid in my next project!

    Has nobody else clued in yet?

    Nobody is interested, so quit while you stay ahead.

    Yeah you guy, quit while you stay ahead and don't make a meatball out of a molehill, kapunch? I'm not beating the shrub, you're causing surf and it makes my blood char-grill!

  • B. D. Johnson (unregistered)

    This reminds me once of when I was asked about the importance of my position as the (Non-IT-type) Security Supervisor at at a NanoTech complex and I summed it up as "Important enough to blame when things go wrong, but not important enough to have business cards."

  • Harrow (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it...
    Too bad nobody wants them.

    -Harrow.

  • Harrow (unregistered) in reply to Niki
    Niki:
    When a coworker of mine left, I inherited his desk and found a box of his business cards. When I need some business cards, I simple take some of his, cross his name out and put mine.
    Don't forget to add, "Please excuse the crayon as they will not allow me to have sharp things any more."

    -Harrow.

  • (cs) in reply to Harrow
    Harrow:
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it...
    Too bad nobody wants them.

    -Harrow.

    Good attempt at humour! Learn humour from hoodarino! Don't be like frits.

  • Owen Two (unregistered) in reply to John Smith
    John Smith:
    Nagesh:
    American companies are cheapskating or what? I have got dozens of boxes of business cards with our company logo and my name on it. If I need more, I need to dial extension and ask for more. More will be provided, no questions asked.

    Plz send me teh cardz. Thank.

    FTFY

  • Anthony (unregistered)

    Fantastic!

    This prompted a bit of Office Space web crawling and I found a real company called Initech that's using the name and logo, but not in an ironic way.

    http://www.initechinfo.com/

  • JITName (unregistered)

    Hey, that's not bad. One place I worked had "generic" company business cards for "unimportant" people, and you just penciled your name wherever you could find room. At least these have a "name" slot.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Melnorme
    Melnorme:
    Hey, "Rubbishsoft" actually have a website.

    They're an offshoot of Inedo, who do the cards. What a coincidence!

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Anthony
    Anthony:
    Fantastic!

    This prompted a bit of Office Space web crawling and I found a real company called Initech that's using the name and logo, but not in an ironic way.

    http://www.initechinfo.com/

    Note that you have to "fill in a TPS form" to have them contact you.

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