Correction

[missroserose]

Ho. Lee. Crap.

I stand corrected. The prestigious Mock Worthy Award has been retroactively awarded to this submission that just came down the pipe (again, presented with spelling and punctuation intact):

I saw ur job post on craigslist &was wonding if the job is still open. Ive worked@ another gallery intown this jobs 4 me

Do people seriously write stuff like this and expect to get a job offer in return? Seriously?

(I suppose it'd be kind of rude for me to respond with "L2rite n well talk, n00b". But that doesn't mean the temptation isn't strong.)

Comments

[joyfulleigh.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow.

As a teacher, this stabs my soul.

L.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

cyranocyrano said almost exactly the same thing (though he's not a teacher). :) I'm just...speechless. Seriously. I don't require formal business correspondence, really, but I don't think it's at all unreasonable to at least require correct spelling and punctuation.

It reminds me of a story one of the Cracked authors put up about going through job applications and coming across one that was 98% filled out in nice, neat, loopy handwriting (i.e. the applicant's girlfriend's). But under the "why do you want this job?" field, the applicant had written in chicken-scratch: "2 C SUM $$$ 4 A CHANGE!!!!"

Maybe there's an actual mental handicap involved? Perhaps we should petition the ADA to recognize people who can't seem to understand the rules of applying for a job.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Gah. And this person probably has the same shot at getting a new job as I do.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

No. No, I'd say definitely not. :)

[gracewanderer.livejournal.com]

You could do them a favor and respond telling them why you're not considering their application.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I take your point, but I'm not sure how to phrase that without sounding elitist, condescending or snarky (or all three at once). Plus, it kinda seems to me like anyone in today's job market should know (or be able to Google) how to properly apply for a job. But maybe that's just proving that I really am, in fact, an elitist.

[gracewanderer.livejournal.com]

Well, you are being elitist and condescending. You're the hiring manager; that's kind of your job. You can still be professional. At the very least, letting them know that their abuse of the English language is getting their applications rejected out of hand would help them next time they apply.