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.
“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.
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you’re
I’m estimating that was .25 extra seconds of work. Definitely worth losing a job over....
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 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.
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.
Rise of the illiterati.
What's so difficult about typing the words "Very respectfully?"
You can even set it in your auto-signature.
"Brgds" for "Best regards" bugs me, too.
OK, I'm done venting one of my pet peeves. :)
Seriously though, we had the same kind of dichotomy when I was in college. We dressed like ditch-diggers for three and a half years and then donned suits for our job interviews in the last semester.
Similarly, if the people doing the hiring continue to discard this nonsense, the applicants will have to comply with the prospective employer's standards. So today's and tomorrow's "yutes" will need to understand enough grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to get through all the written portions of the job application process.
By the way, my protest against this kind of laziness is to spell out words and use proper grammar when I text or IM. Takes a bit longer but it makes me feel like I'm fighting back.
1. With respect to the food that doesn't need to be pealed, so what? That isn't a sign of laziness anymore than its a sign of laziness that we don't chop our own wood and build fires to heat our homes. If a capitalist can sell pealed fruit cheaply, great.
2. The real issue is a breakdown of self-discipline. In part it happens in any wealthy culture. The population loses its drive. But it doesn't have to happen quickly—Rome lasted for centuries as a wealthy superpower. In our case, the 60s resulted in culture that told everyone it was OK to not take care of yourself. Obesity is part of the problem—being fat isn't looked down on. But as bad as it is, that is the least of our problems. A fat person can still support himself or herself (no pun intended). The worse problem is people who think they don't have to work. And I'm not just talking about people on Welfare or public assistance. I'm talking about adult men and women who mooch off their parents or spouses or others in their lives to live the life of Riley. People in their 20s and 30s who live with their parents. Men who are long term unemployed and perfectly happy to have their wives support them.
Then there is the professionalism issue. Most people should be embarrassed at the emails they send. I know smart people—one a managing partner at a law firm who makes well into the six figures—whose emails look like they were written by a six year old. Same with work around the house. Not to stereotype but it seems that older people are more likely to fix smaller problems around the house than younger people. Young people just don't want to put the effort into fixing a toilet. Same with cleaning. I'm shocked by the number of middle class people I know who have someone clean their houses. Cooking too—younger moms would rather take the kids to McDonalds or some other restaurant than take the effort to cook.
It all adds up to personal and ultimately, national decline.
OMG WTF LOL. NO YOU CAN’T HAS APPT. KTHXBAI.
LOL her resume has been PWNED!
The “Scooter” phenomenon is particularly galling. I can’t turn on the TV anymore without seeing a commercial for scooters (subsidized by the taxpayer, of course). Do these fat people actually think that riding a scooter will help them? What about walking or (G-d forbid) taking the stairs? Yeah, its effort, but that’s kind of the point.
“Mr. Watsn, cum here — I want 2 c u.”
Why is this considered Sloth? Perhaps Latin is a dead language but English is changing and will continue to change. Think of texting language as shorthand in English.
Thx// fr t lau//