Badbeat: coworker's spelling

Gildwulf · #1 04-10-2006, 04:20 PM

My 40-something year old co-worker is absolutely terrible at spelling. He just handed me a report that said 'Draft Budjet'. HOW DO YOU SPEND 20+ YEARS IN A MANAGEMENT JOB, HAVE AN MBA, AND NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL BUDGET??

Here is an example from one of his recent reports:

For the assumptions and risk of an upcoming project, he wrote...

"The basic assumption is that each Roudtable session will be well attended and will produce much pertinenet feedback and inoput form the participants"

Nice work. If I was a 6th grade teacher and this was the topic sentence of a kid's book report, I would give it an F. Seriously.

Aaaargh, is there no escape from these people?

He also asked me a few weeks ago how to spell 'met'.

Edit: Caterp is a huge nit

CrazyIrishman · #2 04-10-2006, 04:23 PM

Some people just run bad at life.

johnnycakes · #3 04-10-2006, 04:29 PM

1) Get a red pen.
2) Circle all the mistakes.
3) Draw a frowny face.
4) Hand it back to him.

terp · #4 04-10-2006, 04:29 PM

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Nice work. If I were a 6th grade teacher and this were the topic sentence of a kid's book report, I would give it an F. Seriously.

Aaaargh, is there no escape from these people?

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FYP. great that you took five minutes to write a rant bitching about someone's command of language when you don't even understand the subjunctive.

Gildwulf · #5 04-10-2006, 04:32 PM

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Nice work. If I were a 6th grade teacher and this were the topic sentence of a kid's book report, I would give it an F. Seriously.

Aaaargh, is there no escape from these people?

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FYP. great that you took five minutes to write a rant bitching about someone's command of language when you don't even understand the subjunctive.

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YOU WILL HAVE WON THE PRRIZE!

TheWorstPlayer · #6 04-10-2006, 04:37 PM

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail43.html

kleos · #7 04-10-2006, 04:54 PM

My wife had coworkers who would say "it's a mute point" or "I'll see you on tomorrow."

DING-DONG YO · #8 04-10-2006, 05:01 PM

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1) Get a red pen.
2) Circle all the mistakes.
3) Draw a frowny face.
4) Hand it back to him.

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I do exactly this at work and I work with people that have advanced degrees. Everything save the frowny face.

Once you start making people correct their mistakes, they'll be more careful before they hand you garbage.

mute5 · #9 04-10-2006, 05:48 PM

Oh man I had totally forgotten about HSR. Nice find. Hilarity!

kidcolin · #10 04-10-2006, 05:56 PM

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My wife had coworkers who would say "it's a mute point" or "I'll see you on tomorrow."

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This is pretty common when you work with foreigners. I work with tons of Indian dudes and they mess up a bit. "Yesterday night" is my favorite. And lots of their emails will have Anchorman-style phantom question marks. Such as, "let me know if you have any questions?"