What does YOUR email signature say about you? Student creates hilarious chart that reveals whether you’re ‘evil’ or ‘good’ by ranking the use of ‘regards’, ‘sincerely’ and ‘cheers’
- Canadian student Julia Burnham woke up from her sleep to make the chart
- It’s designed to reveal what your email signature says about your personality
- Julia claims that sign offs like ‘regards’ are ‘lawful evil’ and ‘best’ is ‘neutral good’
- Alignment ranking has gone viral as others flocked to find out their own traits
A student has created a surprisingly precise chart that reveals exactly what your email sign-off etiquette says about your personality.
Canadian Julia Burnham, who attends University of British Columbia, ‘woke up in a sweat’ with the idea of the alignment chart that ranks whether you are ‘evil’ or ‘good’ depending on which you prefer to use.
She claims that sign-offs like ‘regards’ should be considered ‘lawful evil’, ‘sincerely’ is the ‘true neutral’ while ‘cheers’ veers towards someone who is ‘chaotic good’.
Thousands of fellow email users flocked to find out what personality traits they were assigned according to their preferred close.
The chart ranked how your email sign off relates to your personality as Julia matched traditional phrases like ‘regards’ to ‘lawful evil’ and ‘cheers’ to someone who is ‘chaotic good’
Julia tweeted along with the carefully crafted chart: ‘I woke up in a cold sweat last night to create this content. I present: the Email Sign-off Alignment.’
Canadian student Julia Burnham created the email sign off alignment chart in the middle of the night
The first line states ‘warmly’ can be considered lawful good, ‘best’ is ‘neutral good’ and ‘cheers’ tends to be ‘chaotic good’.
The second line suggests that ‘thanks’ is ‘lawful neutral’, with ‘sincerely’ regarded as ‘true neutral’, and the mistake most people use when firing off a quick email from their mobile and forgetting to remove ‘Sent from my iPhone’ is ‘chaotic neutral’.
Referring towards the more hated sign offs Julia states that ‘regards’ is ‘lawful evil’, no sign off can be considered ‘neutral evil’ and the more out there ‘Ciao’ is ‘chaotic evil.
Julia admitted that she ‘felt seen’ by her own chart but revealed that she was ‘neutral good aspiring to be a lawful good’.
Twitter users flocked to respond with their own results as well as some other additions that irritated them
Others flocked to share how their own sign off style revealed about them, as one wrote: ‘I vacillate between “cheers” and “regards.” Seems I have two polar extremes in my personality.’
‘My sign-off is “take care” and wondering if it being off the chart completely is a major issue,’ said another.
‘”As per my last email” = I’m livid,’ added one.
One person said: ‘I disklike cheers but can deal with it. Ciao, however, is like “what the hell are you doing?” border-line offensive, though.’