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Does That Make Since?
Aside from generally not being very bright, my boss couldn’t put a
sentence together to save her life. Here are some random snippets
from emails from my boss.
“I need that report by noon. Does that make since?”
“There is already a ticket open. It’s a know issue.”
“You are suppose to be in a meeting right now.”
“I will be out of the office starting the afternoon on Wednesday
3/17/10 and all day 3/18/10 – 3/19/10. I will return until Monday
3/22/10.”
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Yeah, you really have it hard. Spell check doesn’t catch everything and you can understand what she meant on every one of those quotes. Quit bitching and get back to work.
Uh, hooked on phonics worked for me?
I think the point is, she gets paid more than her employees and should be able to at least put together a complete sentence, spelled correctly. It doesn’t matter that you can understand what she’s saying. You shouldn’t have to decode the messages of your superiors.
It’s difficult to take anything an inept person in management says seriously, isn’t it?
You’d think a company would hire someone with proper communication skills – I encountered the same problem with my former tool of a boss. His boss even hired an assistant for him because his skills were not sufficient as a leader.
Also, EM, some of us are perusing the Net on our days off, so calm yourself.
We must have had the same boss at one point! Man, that makes me crazy when my superiors (and even co-workers) can’t spell for shit. It’s like, “Did you even make it past 5th grade?”
@EM get your panties out of a bunch. Do you not get the point of this website?
This is a little… nitpicky. Let he with perfect grammar and spelling throw the first stone!
If you want ‘not very bright’ try having an IT manager who has to ask you how to change the colour of the text in Microsoft Word (yes, seriously).
@Trowzers: thank you, i will…
if you can’t spell on a 3rd grade level or put together a sentence on a 2nd grade level you do not belong in management… far too often i see people that get hired for their looks or their golf swing and not their ability to do the job they were hired to do.
Hahaha… that sounds just like the boss I have now. Her email’s Out of the Office message said “Should for immediate needs, please contact Client Services…” . I could have mentioned it, but I wanted to see how long it would take for her to notice. It ended up being a little over a year.
Please note that there are several different ‘types’ of businesses and in some situations a person with poor written communication skills is actually much more qualified to be in a management position (construction, for example.) It’s not always about a sweet ass or a tee time, sometimes it has to do with verbal communication and mental and/or physical ability.
Those types of e-mails run rampant at my company too.
Best “sentence” ever in an email from a manager: “Are do you know what it, maybe?”.
My boss never sends a correct sentence, but usually we can guess what she wants, except for this, one time when she sent me “Can you compare with?”
Hm?
Really, this post is just a moo point.
Wow, 4 typos. What a ridiculous boss.
Seriously, this is a stupid post.
It’s just supposed to be funny. It doesn’t say anywhere that the person was complaining.
@ Waterkeepr
Not saying that my spelling and grammar are perfect, but if you are throwing that stone, you should capitalize your I as well as the first letter of the first word of a new sentence. Congratulations.
This is an excuse for going out St. Paddy’s Day, drinking too much green beer and NOT feeling human like for four days.
@Trowzers just because people study IT does not mean that they know how to use Microsoft Word. I don’t work in the IT field, despite my education, but I know for a fact that you don’t learn anything Microsoft Office related in an IT course. There is a far greater chance that you learn about Office in a business degree (i.e. Business Computing and maybe some finance subjects). So I think there’s nothing wrong with an IT guy at work not knowing how to use Word.
My new supervisor does this too. One day when we were really busy, he said in an instant message, that we would be able to hold down the fork (instead of the fort). And he says aks instead of ask. I could go on and on.
I interviewed for the supervisor position that he got. And I use proper English and proper pronunciation. And I have several years more experience in the department.
This sounds like the person is not a native English speaker. I work at a major international company in Europe, these types of emails are not uncommon. I understand it in an email as I know of only 2 native English speakers in the building and we have other things to do besides running around proofing everyone’s emails. But this kind of stuff even pops up in our technical manuals because someone is too lazy to find at least a fluent English speaker to proof read.
Sounds to me like the boss is dyslexic. My hubby is and writes like this often. He is a programmer, and has me proof important correspondence.