I confess I'm losing patience

with co-workers and their horrible, broken English in their emails. If you're employed and communicating both internally with co-workers and externally with customers and vendors you should be able to put together an email that is not full of spelling and grammatical errors. Some of these emails read like they're composed by children. It's embarrassing and makes the entire company look unprofessional..

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Who gives crap?

Jan 9, 2019 at 6:28pm

cry me a river

I’m all for proper....

Jan 9, 2019 at 6:34pm

.....grammer. Even got a great-grammer.

yeah

Jan 9, 2019 at 9:48pm

Can I say that the same should go for writing confessions?

You could

Jan 10, 2019 at 4:45am

You could teach them.

Ralph Wiggum

Jan 10, 2019 at 7:13am

Me fail English? That’s unpossible.

I see your point but

Jan 10, 2019 at 8:33am

I excuse people who’ve learned English as a second language (to an extent). I learned English as a teenager so I speak and write in English as well as in my first language, but the older you start, the harder it gets. An immigrant professional might not have 100% great English, but still bring a ton of value if they were primarily employed for other skills.

That said, a lot of native speaks have terrible grammar and spelling, and I really don’t have an excuse for that.

Just Add

Jan 10, 2019 at 9:41am

more animated GIF's and everyone will understand

Bdn

Jan 11, 2019 at 7:34am

As an employer I do not hire people who can’t clearly speak and write English. Doesn’t matter if they are Chinese or Italian.

EMG

Jan 12, 2019 at 11:16am

I understand! Being in customer service, it's VERY frustrating when you don't understand what someone is saying, and you have to ask them to repeat over and over, only to have THEM get mad at YOU for not understanding!! I don't mind not fluent English or bad grammar, that's understandable, but please be RESPECTFUL of those in customer service that are only trying to HELP YOU!!

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Grammar police

Jan 13, 2019 at 10:18pm

Let's eat grandma!
Let's eat, grandma!
Punctuation saves lives!

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