Donna Genie delivers a short YouTube monologue (pet peeve) urging businesses to ban casual handwritten signs. She recommends a rule that handwritten signs be disallowed unless approved by the owner, and that all signs be printed, spell-checked, laminated, visually consistent, and reusable. An on-site photo/example is referenced to illustrate the problem.
All right, it's time for Donna's pet peeve of the week. I want you to set up a new rule in your business. And here it is. No handwritten signs. Now that may strike you as odd for a moment, but how many times have you seen a handwritten sign in the window or by the cash register or in a bathroom and you thought it's not spelled right? So I would suggest that you put in a new policy that says they're not allowed to be any handwritten signs unless you as a business owner approve them. The only case where I think you ought to have a handwritten sign as if there's some really weird thing. Even the toilet break, you know, everybody's got like, this toilet's out of order. Have a sign ready and prepared for that. All signs should be printed, they should be spell checked and they should be laminated so you can reuse them and they don't just look all crappy and curly. And I'm going to give you a picture of, picture of a business that I took that I was in. Had so many handwritten signs here. You'll see it and you'll change your mind and you're going to put in this new policy, no handwritten signs. Use a printer. Print a sign if you have to. Make sure they're consistent. Don't just look like it, like it just came off of like somebody who doesn't care's printer. Make a nice sign.
