please empty your brain below
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Bet all your old cards have been recycled into new thin white card to make more business cards...
pop artist | 12.02.08 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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Shocking. You have a job?!?!
binky | 12.02.08 - 7:55 a.m. | #
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You could have made some sort of sculpture or card game out fo them ...
Debster | 12.02.08 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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My business cards say that I am an "analyst", which I am not.
Heh. "Anal".
Scaryduck | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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Maybe you could auction them off to your readers for charity? Imagine the brag value of owning a DG business card!
Adrian | 12.02.08 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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I'm told I need business cards, but no one wants to pay for them. I do however have be-logoed postit notes, so I scribble my details on those whenever anyone needs them.
Professional++
DTL | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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In mediahh, people swap business cards like they are playing a game of snap. After a function you could end up with tons. My bin was well-fed and happy 
I think it is a 'belonging' thing. Companies like to think you belong to them, as opposed to working anywhere to pay the rent! Business cards reinforce this, though I doubt those at the top have the b. card of everyone in their employ!
Jayne | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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In most restaurants they have a bowl near the bar. You put your business card in the bowl and then they pick it out and give away a free meal (as well as have all your contact details). You could have dumped 1000 cards across restraunts and surely some of them would have worked.
Del | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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Business Cards.
They're sooo BC..
Mr.D. | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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Adrian, if the Geezer auctioned off his cards, then we would know his real name, and where he works. No more mystery!
You could paper your sitting-room walls with them.
Tina from Surrey | 12.02.08 - 1:43 p.m. | #
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May years ago, when I started working for my present company (as a contractor) my function dictated that I needed cards. I think it was 500 I had printed, and around 300 went before I changed roles and no longer needed them. I've recently changed roles again, and I'm in the process of inventing my own role, for which business cards will be useful. My boss has said "we don't need business cards" He doesn't really understand what I'm going to do - his predecessor recruited me and then *uggered off. So I've dug out my old cards and started giving them out again. My name hasn't changed, nor has my company nor the contact info. Oh I do feel green.
Ham | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 1:50 p.m. | #
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The moral clearly being whenever anyone meets DG, be sure to ask for his card.
Huw | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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Having picked a suitably vague job title I've managed to keep the same business cards for 10 years. They're quite useful- sometimes I write little timetables on them.
James Taylor | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 2:39 p.m. | #
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Anyone else trying to work out who DG works for? Changed it's logo in early 2000s, then restructured, then flogged a bit off, then restructured, then flogged a bit off again...
Kirk | 12.02.08 - 2:42 p.m. | #
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- Can i have a business card? Then you'll be throwing one less away. Or give one to everyone that comments on your blog. that should be at least 200.
- or do an art project with them. shame you didn't keep all 1000, or could have spelt out the words "What a waste!" with them, taken a photo and blogged in
- don't throw out the current batch of 200. recycle them somehow. build a homeless shelter for someone... anything... just don't trash them!
Geofftech | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 3:01 p.m. | #
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Asking you to order 200 new business cards every time there was even the slightest change in your job seems very wasteful to me. I would have reused the old business cards as small bits of scrap paper to jot down phone numbers and the like before throwing them away (at least you would've got some use out of them then).
Alternatively, of course, you could've auctioned them to us DG readers on eBay...
Andrewh | 12.02.08 - 3:05 p.m. | #
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On the next lot of cards could you not put "Diamond Geezer" and see if anyone notices. My Dad put Hairy Arsed Carpenter on some business cards once for the firm he was working for and no one noticed.
Anonymous | 12.02.08 - 3:30 p.m. | #
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'bout 12 years ago I was asked what job title I wanted on my business cards. "Minor Diety" I replied.
Just as well I checked before the order went out the printers.
I still have about 2 boxes of these now out of date cards but have 4 or 5 in my wallet just to take notes, phone numbers, address's and the like. They're just the right size.
Jamboesque | 12.02.08 - 5:25 p.m. | #
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My last set of 200 cards were printed on both sides, making them useless for scribbling notes (oh the waste, the waste).
But they were also packed with a sheet of yellow paper tucked inbetween each card (oh the waste, the waste), so I've rescued all those and I'm using them for note-taking.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 6:16 p.m. | #
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I've just seen the proofs of my latest set of business cards. All my contact details have been written in font size 6, in lower case. So, even more uselessly rubbish than usual. Sigh.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 6:23 p.m. | #
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Does anyone ever check if you actually have ordered business cards? You could just ignore the request. *NB: This is an example from Ian's big book of career stagnation (the minor rebellions chapter)
@Kirk. Could be pretty much anyone, I think
ian | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 8:17 p.m. | #
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i shouldn't worry.
denz | 12.02.08 - 9:08 p.m. | #
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pedantry-alert
If you threw away about 190 every time, you ended up binning a total of about 950 of them, not 990.
dhow | 12.02.08 - 9:10 p.m. | #
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I threw away 190-something every time.
(far nearer to 200 than 190)
And that makes 990-something, honest.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.02.08 - 9:41 p.m. | #
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Is this the follow-on quiz to the "guess which seaside town DG's going to"?
Lots of restructuring and logo changes - I'm going to open the betting with...
Royal Mail
Novaelius | 12.02.08 - 10:02 p.m. | #
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Another candidate is Abbey (formerly Abbey National), recently voted the bank with the worst customer service by the BBC's Watchdog.
I'm just wondering what the point is in printing double-sided business cards. After all, if one side is blank, you'd surely flip it over to the other (printed) side, wouldn't you?
Andrewh | 12.02.08 - 11:19 p.m. | #
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My workplace has the option - if you're swanky and important you get the double sided cards that look all wow. If you're nobody you get a plain back. If you're really no-one like me, you just get a name badge.
Kirk | 13.02.08 - 1:25 a.m. | #
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I've seen bilingual double sided business cards - English on one side, Russian on t'other....
Business cards: good for striking up introductions at formal or semi-formal events outwith one's actual work. ALthough often then ignrored or thrown away
Venichka | 13.02.08 - 1:30 a.m. | #
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@Jamboesque - ah, promoted to Major Deity now then!
A friend who was getting married (and hence changing her name) strung all the old coloured cards together to decorate the wedding reception. Very nice it was.
Rick | Homepage | 13.02.08 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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When I read this post yesterday there was something odd about it. I realised today (because I don't have an interesting life!) it was the estimation for the counting, and not the exact counting I am use to.
You must be busy counting other more interesting things DG-because you could not have lost your counting mojo!
Amused | 13.02.08 - 2:25 p.m. | #
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Yea, I have the card problem too..
I have kept some of the cards I had when I worked in Japan. They're cool. Bilingual and all that.
Keep a few, just to detail your career and where you've been.
bgw | 13.02.08 - 6:21 p.m. | #
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Before DG's various metamorphoses I've an idea he worked at the BBC. But he wasn't the D-G. Something technical, I think.
Great Aunt Annie | 13.02.08 - 6:39 p.m. | #
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Ah yes, business cards. When I got my first full-time job, they asked if I wanted business cards-- couldn't think of any reason to need them, so said, "No, save your money." This went on for the next 10 years or so, until the onset of a new sales manager, who insisted everyone was to have cards. So I ordered some, then received a job offer, and wound up leaving a month later.
Second job: "Do you need business cards?" "No, save your money." 5 years elapse. "We ordered everyone business cards, here are yours, and by the way we're closing your operation, and you've been laid off."
Third job: "Do you need business cards?" "Do you want to keep me as an employee? The trend hasn't been good." Stayed a couple of years. Never got any cards.
Now I run my own business. Don't have any business cards. If someone insists on receiving one, I run a page worth off on the laser printer. Seems to be working.
Old Grouch | Homepage | 13.02.08 - 11:54 p.m. | #
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So many enterprising Britons suggesting selling them and such...
Some great comments here DG...
Nice blog.
advanced-pondlife | 14.02.08 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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