Must... not... conform...

I can't do it. I just can bring myself to do it. I've been asked to conform in the silliest and most trivial of ways at work some part of me refuses to accept it. I've since tried every conceivable way to squirm out of it that I can think of.

Work has recently undergone a re-branding exercise, which normally I'd object to on the grounds that it's a complete waste of everyone's time and effort, but in this case I don't mind since our previous corporate branding was so laughably amateurish anything new could only be an improvement. However, as a consequence of this exercise all employees have been asked to attach a standard corporate signature at the end of all emails bearing the new brand, the company details and our names, job titles and contact details. I'm sure it is all terribly professional but the strength my reaction against it caught even me by surprise.

I've tried to make it more acceptable. I recoded the html in signature so that it's now xhtml compliant, removed extraneous tables and replaced them with css, and reduced the size of the code by 30%. Unfortunately it still looks the same and within the parameters I have to work with there's little I can do about that. So far the best I've been able to come up with in order to differentiate my signature has been to lower case my initials. Hah, take that you corporate overlords!

Sigh. I've never been particularly bothered with conforming to society's norms, but I don't think I've paid enough attention to lengths I'll go to deviate from them.

I think tomorrow I'll start changing the colour scheme of the logo by one rgb value each time I send an email and see how long it takes for someone to notice...