This makes NO sense at all...

[reyd reid reed]

When someone hires a reporter, they check references and ask for clips and writing samples. When they hire a stringer, they want clips and writing samples. When they hire a copy editor, they give them a test to make sure they know their grammar and spelling and they have to prove that they can edit copy.

Makes sense, right?

So...when they hire someone for ME...WHY THE FUCK CAN'T THEY SEE IF THEY CAN FUCKIN' TYPE????

And...if they're not gonna make sure...then let ME interview 'em. Spelling COUNTS. Typos COUNT. 'Cause if they fuck up, I've gotta fix it. And at 11:30 on a fuckin' Friday night, I ain't got TIME to be running around behind some fuckin' twinkie, cleaning up her shit.

"Are you the Lisa that's gonna be training me tomorrow?"

"Yup."

"Oh, kewl. Sa-weet."

'kewl. Sa-weet.' This is NOT a sixteen-year-old twinkie. This is a twinkie by assignment rather than designation.

This is the same woman who is STILL spelling Hilltop Baptist "Hilltop Babtits". Who doesn't space between ANYTHING. "Hilltop Babtits at Calahan(Cahalan)4:00p.m. (and, for the record, it's Calhan...NOT CALAHAN).

Repeatedly. And what happens when I point it out to my boss? When I spend four hours going through the shit that she's typed, fixing as many of the mistakes as I could find?

I come in tonight and SHE'S DOING THE SAME SHIT!!!!!!!!

Are they TRYING to drive me crazy?

:crazy:

[leftofthedial]

1. Babtits

:spray: :rofl:


are you trying to drive me crazy?

[reyd reid reed]

4. Oh...can you imagine if that made the page????

Oh, holy fuck.

:rofl:

[Heidi]

2. My goodness, can't the newbie run spell-check?

I hope you at least get to give some feedback on her performance evaluation. :scared:

[reyd reid reed]

5. In her defense, we've got a spell check that's...well...not worth it.

And names are frequently a problem for it. And it likes to lock up any file that's larger than, oh, 4 inches?

He's got her working on the fall varsity schedules. So far, it's 12, 20" columns.

BUT...she's typing from a hard copy. B-A-P-T-I-S-T. I could see the occasional transposition. It happens. But EVERY SINGLE TIME????

And she must have some...phobia...about spaces.

GAH!!!

Hell, I'm a nobody. But I'm damn well gonna make my opinion known. And she's gonna be bored 'cause I don't have time to ship her a ton of agate that I'm gonna have to redo anyway...

I'm supposed to be training her tomorrow.

Pray for me.

:scared:

[Haole Girl]

3. I will not post a long reply for fear of a typo...but, here...

:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

6. Awwwwww...

There's a difference. A BIG difference.

I promise not to blast away.

:hug: