Posted on 01/30/2011 6:21:25 AM PST by lowbridge
“I’m ready to offer my services for ur project. Contact me at ur earliest convenience 2 arrange for interview. Thanks in advance for ur consideration.”
That’s a real cover letter from a real person claiming to be a real professional, who thinks she can get a real job. The letter was fielded by publicist and trend-spotter Richard Laermer, who gets so many of these he collects them and, when asked, forwards them to reporters for fun.
The letter “just made me shake my head till it nearly fell off.” But it isn’t rare. In fact, Laermer says, it’s typical.
“Lazy is the new professionalism,” he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I’m simply stunned to silence. I can’t even laugh it’s so mindblowing.
I fear for R future
Not in my world. The fastest way to never get a raise again is to type this crap in inter-company email. No one’s tried sending it to a client yet.
I have a QA manager who thinks “thx” is OK.
One of my kids started using “u” and got grounded.
It’s not laziness. It’s stupid.
Where I worked not that long ago, it was somewhat accepted.
It drives me crazy personally.
Where I worked not that long ago, it was somewhat accepted.
It drives me crazy personally.
“Lazy is the new professionalism,” he says.”
Compared to where? France?
I drive two and a half hours just to reach my job and get home every day. The sorry bunch of thugs I work for monitors every minute, and makes us take vacation for family emergencies and sick time for leaving fifteen minutes early for a doctor visit. We are on salary, not a time clock. Anything that happens pushes one way, towards management. Their refrain is very much like this article, “You are lucky to have a job.” They actually told us that in a recent seminar.
At least the writer did not misuse you’re.
Just curious, what's the turnover rate?
Or conversely you are not lucky,so far, to have found a different job.
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I’m estimating that was .25 extra seconds of work. Definitely worth losing a job over....
I had a wacko PHB-ette who castigated me over going to a specialist once a month out of town and I needed to leave an hour early. I had the time to use but it didn’t matter to her. One day I had some really bad muscle spasms and I was walking around like Frankenstein and she just looked at me and gave a “so what?” look.
The days of showing your face and selling yourself are gone. The days of networking with peers and associates to get the first interview are gone. I worked at a company that issued an email telling current employees that any referals had to be direct between the potential candidate and the agency 600 miles away. Failure to do so would result in disciplinary action.
The company my husband works for told them the same thing when they questioned bennies being cut, pay being cut, etc.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The practice began with the telegraph when charges were by character and brevity was desirable. It was holy grail by the Navy. Be brief in correspondnece....... not with abbrertiviations necessarily but with succinct writing. That too was the result of Morse encoded communications.
More recently, much business and all international business was conducted by telex. Telex was expensive but the only recourse. I still use the salutation rgds short for Regards or Best Regards in e mail.
The piece noted is the current generation picking up the old ways and even expanding them in text messags. The writer is illustrating a knowledge and mastery of current communications. Texting was hard and reduction of characters speeded the message. The new phones allow much easier typing but the old abbreviated way survives.
Then there were the hams. They communicated by Morse and developed a whole language of short cuts. The Q codes allowed a series of 3 characters to convey a message.
Well, you are lucky to have a job.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The practice began with the telegraph when charges were by character and brevity was desirable. It was holy grail by the Navy. Be brief in correspondence....... not with abbreviations necessarily but with succinct writing. That too was the result of Morse encoded communications.
More recently, much business and all international business was conducted by telex. Telex was expensive but the only recourse. I still use the salutation rgds short for Regards or Best Regards in e mail.
The piece noted is the current generation picking up the old ways and even expanding them in text messags. The writer is illustrating a knowledge and mastery of current communications. Texting was hard and reduction of characters speeded the message. The new phones allow much easier typing but the old abbreviated way survives.
Then there were the hams. They communicated by Morse and developed a whole language of short cuts. The Q codes allowed a series of 3 characters to convey a message.
“Well, you are lucky to have a job”
It depends on what skills you have. Their are still some fields where highly skilled employees are in demand.
The nose to grind stone senario is not new today....it happens whenever there are employment contractions. During my first real job in the early 60’s, when we had a recession, I was late for work one day by about ten minutes. The Ex VP called me in, actually grabbed me as I was heading past his office, and asked me what was the problem? I had none, just said I missed my alarm. He pointed to the outside of his window where people were bustling about and exclaimed: everyone of them is looking for your job, got it? Yes was my answer and I was not late again.
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