If you're going to lecture someone about proper spelling and grammar, then work on proper formatting.
Ever heard of separating individual ideas into individual paragraphs? Even if you don't do that with every idea, you should mind your audience and cater to them. For a typical Rants and Raves reader, the long paragraph block is too much effort.
You're not coming to craigslist rants and raves to look for employees that could properly fill an application out. You're not coming to this forum to find people that could dress properly. You're not coming to Rants and Raves to hire people who could spell properly.
Heck, you're not coming to Rants and Raves to make wise business decisions. In fact, if you're reading Rants and Raves during business hours, you may not be making a wise decision.
Now, here are a couple things that employers look for when reviewing both the application and applicant. If the person doesn't care about himself, how will that person care about the business? How will that person represent himself in that business?
Also, if a person doesn't spell something right, that may be because the person doesn't care for attention to detail. If the person doesn't care about getting certain words right, what's stopping that person from not caring about how work procedures are done?
These factors play in a business role, but don't play on Rants and Raves.
So the poster that you responded to is right.
People don't come to Rants and Raves to find out who's got the best chance to win the Pulitzer Prize. They come to R&R for entertainment purposes.
People with real game in them will address what's being said. They wouldn't focus on how it's said as their sole point of attack. People with no game will zero in on spelling and grammar, and not pay attention to content.
Your post is partisan driven. You're attacking the poster for daring to express something conservative. You're attacking them for disagreeing with something that you agree in. I see the mistakes you complain about on both sides of the argument, yet you're taking issue with this poster for not drinking your Kool Aid.
Reply to: pers-965976904@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-12-21, 12:21PM EST
GREAT POINTS! However,unfortunately people will call you names because of your spelling and sentence structure. Wake up, people. Stop being an english teacher and start being a U.S.Gov't. teacher. Reply to the idea of the post (if capabale), not the structure! Sometimes the best educated are the STUPIDEST people! (ie:Kennedys, Clintons, Pelosie, Gore,Blagojevich,Jackson,Sharpton)
******It has nothing to do with being an English teacher...it's about common sense. It's about just being too fucking lazy to use a simple tool called Spellcheck.
Yes, moron, it does matter to people who are actually educated. Perhaps you are just too stupid to understand this yourself.
If you owned a business and were hiring an employee, would you honestly hire a person that couldn't even correctly fill out an application? Would you hire someone who didn't think it was important enough to dress for the interview or would you hire him with his pants hanging around his ankle? If you had your own business, you'd understand that these days, you have to make wise decisions. Would you take a chance hiring an idiot that can't spell and wears his pants down low? Can you imagine the actual PAYING customers this would scare away? Maybe you just can't understand the importance of not looking like or sounding like a total fucking idiot. Yes, it's very important. I, seriously, can't take anything this guy says as anything intelligent. All I see is some idiot who "SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN SCHOOL," and some bitter Republican who is "THE ONLY ONE TO TAKE UP FOR THIS MORON." Yes, this makes you look like a total fucking moron, too, but obviously, you must be close to this guy's "lack of intelligence" level, as you hang on his every "ignorant" word. Keep saying "it doesn't matter." Clearly, to the majority of intelligent people, it does matter. Except to other idiots who just can't grasp the truth.
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