Waste of Space
I just checked my school email, and as the page was reloading, the first thing I saw was the yellow warning that I was using 17 mb of my 20 mb storage limit. Seeing as I was nowhere close to the limit (last I knew), I was surprised.
Turned out that I had one very large email -- 5.5 mb to be exact. It was from our career services office, and contained a reception invitation from a large, well-known New York law firm (*ahem* Skadden). fn1. I just had to see what was so special about this invitation to justify 5.5 mb, so I opened it up.
It was a hideously ugly PowerPoint slide, converted into PDF format. Nothing special. I've see junior high students create PowerPoint slides that are more interesting and pleasing to the eye. It was a terrible waste of space, and our career services people should be ashamed of insulting us and clogging our inboxes by forwarding it to us. It was absolutely unnecessary (a simple email conveying the same information would have worked just fine), and for people who were near their inbox limit, such a large file could delay or prevent them from receiving important mail.
I'm not sure who's stupider in this situation: Skadden, for creating such a terrible invitation; the career services office, for forwarding it on to us; or me, for wasting my time looking at the email in the first place.
1. When I say "well-known," I mean "well-known for abusing its associates like rented mules." No, I am not kidding.
Turned out that I had one very large email -- 5.5 mb to be exact. It was from our career services office, and contained a reception invitation from a large, well-known New York law firm (*ahem* Skadden). fn1. I just had to see what was so special about this invitation to justify 5.5 mb, so I opened it up.
It was a hideously ugly PowerPoint slide, converted into PDF format. Nothing special. I've see junior high students create PowerPoint slides that are more interesting and pleasing to the eye. It was a terrible waste of space, and our career services people should be ashamed of insulting us and clogging our inboxes by forwarding it to us. It was absolutely unnecessary (a simple email conveying the same information would have worked just fine), and for people who were near their inbox limit, such a large file could delay or prevent them from receiving important mail.
I'm not sure who's stupider in this situation: Skadden, for creating such a terrible invitation; the career services office, for forwarding it on to us; or me, for wasting my time looking at the email in the first place.
1. When I say "well-known," I mean "well-known for abusing its associates like rented mules." No, I am not kidding.
posted by N at 4:26 PM
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