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Subject: Re: Job Offer
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:28:17 -0500
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On 3/14/2025 10:02 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 3/14/2025 3:49 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>> On Fri Mar 14 15:06:06 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>> On 3/14/2025 12:19 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>> I guess due to my comments here and elszwhere I seem to 
>>>> have arroused the curiosity of a CEO who is interested 
>>>> in jnterviewing me for a position. if hired that would 
>>>> end mowt orf my posting since unlike Flunky
>>> I'll believe it when I see really good evidence.
>>>
>>> But until then: If you actually communicate with the 
>>> company by email,
>>> etc. PLEASE slow down, try harder to hit the proper keys 
>>> on your
>>> keyboard, use spellcheck and have someone else proofread 
>>> everything
>>> before you send it.
>>>
>>> If my department hiring committee were looking for a full 
>>> time
>>> professor, or if I were hiring a part timer, we'd reject 
>>> anyone whose
>>> communications included words like "elszwhere" or 
>>> "arroused" or
>>> "jnterviewing" OR "mowt orf."
>>
>> After all, there is nothing more important than correct 
>> spelling on a newsgroup.
> 
> Most of us here handle that with barely a thought.
> 
> John is always misspelling "college" as "collage" (which is 
> an artwork assembled from parts) and I've seen many people 
> confuse "loose" and "lose", but their mistakes are a tiny 
> fraction of yours.
> 
> It makes a person wonder whether you have very low 
> standards, or whether you're incapable of normal accuracy. 
> Either possibility is probably fatal for a job application.
> 
> We'll see, I guess. Let us know when you're _actually_ 
> working and getting paid by this company. If you don't, we 
> can discuss whether the "offer" was only as real as the dent 
> in your top tube, or whether they ultimately rejected you.
> 

While I do notice usage, grammar and spelling (I read the 
newspaper pen in hand) such as errant or superfluous 
apostrophes, who/whom, the all too common 'indexes' for 
'indices' and so on, drawing attention to others' writing 
eccentricities is usually picayune and borders on snarky.

Except when there's some shared humor to be found!

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971