----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Unqualified was DoftW
> At 08:23 AM 1/11/02, you wrote: > >I work around an english speaking Mexican born fellow who was denied a > >chance to advance to a better job because he didnt spell very well. > >Crap, > >his spelling was atrocious. He was fairly well spoken, albeit with an > >accent > >and some poor grammer, but his writing skills were poor because he spoke > >spanish mostly when not on the job. > >*I* know for a fact he was the best choice for the job. I work with his > >department all the time. But when he wrote a departmental memo he made > >terrible and obvious mistakes and this made him appear to be > >................. hmmm.....unqualified, if I may be kind. > > > > I didn't see where it specified what kind of job this was, Thomas is a stationary engineer. The position was for supervisor over his department (Central Plant) at a hospital. His duties would have included writing reports, intra-office and interoffice memos. One of the memos he wrote (he ran the plant temporarily after the death of the previous supervisor) had the term "sigth glass" in it several times. It took me a few minutes to figure out that he meant "sight glass". Add to the misspellings, the clumsy syntax (much worse than mine even) and you have some pretty unimpressive prose. xponent Asyntaxtural Maru rob
