h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been given a new employment contract.

It's printed in comic sans.

TRiG.

Congratulations!

No, definitely not. There was a thread in Ask about that some time ago.

Congratulations, all the same!

Are you going to take it anyway?

...

Congratulations.

Congratulations anyway! *hic*

You little beauty....



Good one TRIG.

Do you mean you've landed a new job, or they've changed your existing employment contract (which is rarely for the better in my experience)?

Good luck with it, whichever.

And comic sans? No, that's entirely inappropriate for anything except Christmas round robin letters. Ask for one in Times New Roman.

It must be a final test...

Glad I'm not the only cynic, Icy. That's why I was slightly hesitant to jump in with congrats a-flying.

But hey - I'll keep my fingers crossed that everything else about the contract is a lot better than the typeface, which I guess it must be if that's what struck you first, Trig!

Hope it's a good 'un.

I echo the call for a new one in Times New Roman, or better still, one hand written in beautiful copperplate with a right-wing goose-feather quill on the finest vellum.

I was never actually given a contract when I started work. I now have one. Well, a draft one, anyway. I've not signed it yet, or even finished reading it.

But, in general, it's good news, yes. Even with the comic sans.

TRiG.

Congrats mate.

Also, I like comic sans

I think mine is in Garamond MT.

Mine's in Arial, but that's by the by.

<> This indicates that the HR department is either non-existent or very inexperienced, which might explain the strange use of comic sans. Perhaps it's their designated font for drafts.

I never got an employment contract for at least 4 hospitals I have worked for...

But to be fair the standard NHS employment contract is universial throughout all hospitals.

Congratulations on the new contract

I've got a friend who's a university lecturer who tells his students that they're allowed to submit work written in the comic sans font, but only if that work is in the form of a comic or graphic novel. He has strong views on this one.

Five-person company, this. There's definitely no HR department!

TRiG.