Re: Job Offer

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.
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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.
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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."

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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!
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