| Truly bad grammar |
[Jul. 23rd, 2008|11:31 am] |
I just thought of this random story I often have to retell, and so I am making an entry for posterity's sake.
I used to work at the (late) Cargo Furniture, and the district manager for the South was a spry older woman who used to be a former kindergarten teacher. Her name was Joan. Now, personally, I never had an issue with the woman except for her incessant memos. We used to get packets every week from the home office, and once in a while, this woman would have some happy-wappy announcement of some sort, usually having to do with sales contests.
This woman, despite her educational background, was a terrible, terrible writer. Her memos were frequently misspelled, she used a lot of ALL CAPS, extra punctuation, and was the queen of misplaced apostrophes. Here's an example from memory about a sales contest to Cancun, Mexico:
ATENTION ALL SALE'S STAFF
Are recent quota contest, is running in FULL GEAR!!! Halfway there, and already we have some AMAZING QUOTABUSTER'S!! Stephane of the Florida otlet is 20%%%% OVER HER AVERAGE QUOTA!!!!! Can YOU beat her score's????? Grig of Springfield in Verginia is 15%%%%%!!!!! There combined score's have rocketed the Estern region over 17%%%!!!
I see sunny sky's, and margarita's in there future!!!
Yeah, it hurts the eyes, doesn't it? |
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Jesu's h kry'st!!!%%%
That's just effing horrible. Can't someone tell her to hit F7 every once in a while?
Well, back in 1994-1995, she may not have had access to a MS-based word processor. She didn't strike me as someone who was an early adopter of the home computer, either.
But the office had computers. I was surprised nobody else said anything except my DM, who rolled her eyes.
Um...I think my eyes bled a little bit while reading that. | |
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