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Author Topic: Blue Or Black pen: Cheaper Car Insurance? Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-27-2005 12:43 AM                     Well, I was thinking, with the massive time I have to do such things, I was wondering that if you go to an insurance agent and apply for car insurance, would you get a different rate using a blue pen rather than a black one? This also could apply to job hunting. Are you more inclined to get a job using a black pen on your application, or a blue pen?  |  IP: Logged Ben Holley Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Texas Registered: Feb 2004 posted 01-27-2005 12:55 AM                    your threads never cease to amaze me  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-27-2005 01:14 AM                     Blue sometimes has a harder time being photocopied, so go with black.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-27-2005 01:19 AM                     Use a pink pen Richard. That way they will remember you easier.  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-27-2005 01:20 AM                     I actually had a person fill out an application in green...they didn't get hired. I'm not asking for me, I'm just asking in general  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 01-27-2005 01:35 AM                     I worked with a manager that hated blue ink. He would yell at his staff for using anything other than black on box office reports, payroll documents, and, well pretty much everything. But than again, he's kind of crazy.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 02:23 AM                        Red & green ink used to be prohibited on forms, logs, etc. sent or subject to review by US government agencies, because the ink color photographed poorly. Photocopiers are better now, but I haven't heard of any changes in those ink color prohibitions.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-27-2005 04:06 AM                        quote: Richard Greco I actually had a person fill out an application in green...they didn't get hired. is that incidental or was the ink color really a litmus test for hiring? why?  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-27-2005 12:14 PM                        Most people I know prefer blue ink because it contrasts with the paper and the usually black printed forms that are often being completed. During Christmas for work I would alternately use Green and Red pens on my inventory forms. Filling out an application or other official document, I'd use blue. My 8th Grade history teacher always said we were allowed to use "Blue, Black, or Blue-Black" inks... cause apparently blue-black is an official ink color.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2005 12:19 PM                        As long as you can read the thing, who gives a crap what color ink is used? It's when people write with silver or gold inks that I get mad. Anything that makes me squint to focus on it = bad.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-27-2005 05:56 PM                     Show them you need the job BAD, write in blood. Starts red, turns brown. They can use your blood to do a drug test on you too.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-27-2005 07:35 PM                        Blue or Black unless the form calls for a specific color. BTW, Your posts never cease to amaze me either...  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 01-28-2005 01:55 AM                        I took a package delivery notification into the Post Office that my girlfriend had filled out in red ink. The slip was refused because it was in red (cashier cited the photocopy issue, which is bunk because red inks photocopy as black as any. Why are they photocopying it anyway?)... She then gave me a new slip to have my girlfriend fill out. Since she was at work, I went out to the car and signed her name to the slip in black and went back in. The cashier knew it to be forged (since she compared it to the red-ink one) and didn't really care. I guess they'd rather accept a forgery than one in red.  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 01-28-2005 11:06 PM                        Just don't write with a felt-tip pen on a carbonless form. This happened to me a few times at the music store on rental/finance contracts. Makes it pretty difficult to file the bottom copies in alphabetical order when they are completely blank. quote: Richard Greco This also could apply to job hunting. Are you more inclined to get a job using a black pen on your application, or a blue pen? I apply online. The last 2 jobs I've applied for this way, I've been hired.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-29-2005 11:06 AM                     An old English teacher of mine (and we know how full of crap English teachers are...) told the class that writing in Black ink has been shown to reduce stress, but writing in Blue ink increases creativity. To me, it just depends on the nature of the document (filling out black forms in blue for example) or what mood I'm in or what pen I happened to grab... any of those factors lead to my decision. If someone filled out an application in a color other than the "standard" I wouldn't just throw it away for that. In fact, I would call them in for an interview to see what kind of person they are. Straying from the (as someone used to describe the new Chicago Stadium) "sterile" norm usually signifies ambition, the willingness to take risks, creativity, individuality, and a sense of cultutre. IMHO, something other than the standard ink WOULD land you a job in my company! Everyone is so drilled in their Business classes that this is the "professional" way to do things that it sickens me. Because then we end up with "business professionals" putting on a powerpoint presentation of black-on-white slides where they READ the entire slide... or those people who answer a question by first restating the question, since that's the "proper" way to do it: "Why were you interested in applying for this position?" -- "I was interested in applying fot this position because..." =TMP=  |  IP: Logged

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