Posted on 07/31/2019 11:52:35 AM PDT by tom h
Here is a hopefully short synopsis of something that happened this week that I still don’t understand (?)
[Be sure to read all 25 or so tweets, you will not be disappointed and you will be amazed.]
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No doubt Mama Hilton was the big enabler of Paris' party girl behavior over all those years. It took her to age 26 to finally learn a real life lesson.
Unfortunately, this spoiled snowflake will need to get fired a few times, and perhaps lose a few boyfriends, before she unlearns all the crap she learned at home and on the playground.
No one has a “right” to spell the English language the way they want to.
I tried to explain that "on accident" is not correct, but according to them that's what they heard at school, and "on accident" is no less legitimate as a colloquialism than "by accident."
I'm just a dumb engineer, not a linguist (cunning or otherwise) so I didn't have the ability to go any deeper into the linguistic origins or the expression "by accident," so that's where we left it. I can't figure out if it's important or not.
What a dumster fire. Maybe she can lend me a p since she doesn’t need it anymore.
Surprised she didn’t accuse the boss of harassment.
I expect this from people who are taught they can invent pronouns.
So the one gal calls her mom during office hours to complain about it to her mother.
The other gal gets on twitter during office hours to complain about it to everyone.
And what is wrong with Hampsters? What else would you call them. Maybe Hamptonites? Hamptononions?
Spelling, maybe, but definitions are fluid, take “marriage” for instance.
“(cunning or otherwise)”
Wandering roun a gun store I caught a conversation and injected a comment re “The Peter Principle”..which got a reply that folks under 50 don’t know what that is...Your ‘injection’ above rings that same kinda bell.....LOL....
Same here.
The comments at the link are great, though.
Millennial Writer Cries, Puts Mother on Speakerphone after Editor Corrects Her Spelling
PJ Media ^ | 7-15-2019 | STEPHEN GREEN
Posted on 7/15/2019 3:18:34 PM by servo1969
Time for her to grow up and realize she is not the center of the universe.
The only remaining question for Mom is: will she be coming in to pick up the final paycheck or will the spoiled millennial brat be doing it herself?
Hampster is the correct spelling of the furry creatures sometimes kept as pets on Lawn Giland, NY
This is a repeat but it diserves to be posted again.
self ping
Here is a hopefully short synopsis of something that happened this week that I still don’t understand (1/?)
3:19 PM - 12 Jul 2019
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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In office space near a client, a young woman was meeting with her boss. She was (by my estimation) in her late 20s.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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The boss (also a woman) was giving her feedback and reviewing edits she had made on something this young woman wrote.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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They had been speaking in low tones, but their volume got louder toward the end of the conversation because the young woman was getting agitated about a particular edit.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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That particular edit was correcting the spelling of “hampster” to “hamster”. Apparently she had used the phrase “like spinning in a hamster wheel” in this draft (presumably) speech or or op-ed.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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The young woman kept saying, “I don’t know why you corrected that because I spell it with the P in it.” The boss said (calmly), “But that’s not how the word is spelled. There is no P in hamster.”
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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Young woman: “But you don’t know that! I learned to spell it with a P in it so that’s how I spell it.” The boss (remaining very calm and professional), let’s go to dictionary.com and look it up together. (mind you, this is a woman in her late 20s, not a 5th grader)
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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The young woman insists she doesn’t need to look it up because it’s FINE to spell it with a P because that’s HOW SHE WANTED TO SPELL IT.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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The boss says, “Let’s look over the rest of the piece so I can explain the rest of my edits.” They do, and I can see the young woman is fighting back tears. The boss is calm, cool, and handles this with professionalism and empathy.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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Boss says, “I know edits can be difficult to go over sometimes, especially when you’re working on new kinds of things as you grow in your career, but it’s a necessary process and makes us all better at what we do.”
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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Boss gets up from table and goes to her office and the young woman can barely hold it together. She moves to another table in the common workspace area, drops all her stuff loudly on the table top, and starts texting. A minute later, her phone rings.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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It was her mom. She had texted her mom to call her because it was urgent, and I’m sure her mother maybe thought she was in the ER or something. She then ... PUTS HER MOM ON SPEAKERPHONE. IN THE WORKPLACE.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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She bursts into tears and wants her mom to call her boss and tell her not to be mean about telling her how to spell words like “hamster”.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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The mother tells her that her boss is an idiot and she doesn’t have to listen to her and she should go to the boss’ boss to file a complaint about not allowing creativity in her writing.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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The young woman kept saying, “I thought what I wrote was perfect and she just made all these changes and then had the nerve to tell me I was spelling words wrong when I know they are right because that is how I have always spelled them.”
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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She then went on (still on speakerphone) to tell her mom I’m very great and office-inappropriate detail about how hungover she was and what she and her friends did with some guys the night before. Mom laughed and laughed.
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Martha Southgate Martha Southgate
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Jul 12
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Please tell me you made this up....please.....
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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The colleagues in and around the workplace kept looking at one another and some even put earbuds/headphones in/on. It appeared as though this was a regular thing with her.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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She ended the conversation asking her mom how she should bring this up with the boss’ boss. “I mean, I always spell hamster with a P, she has no right to criticize me.” She walked to the office kitchen for the rest of the call so I don’t know what happened next.
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Carol Blymire Carol Blymire
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Jul 12
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I don’t know what to think about this whole thing. If the young woman is neuroatypical, it seems as though the editing process might be something to approach in a different way.
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I like the guy who said “what a dumpster fire” and then changed it to “what a dumbster fire.”
Worst clickbait ever.
But that out of the way, there are already 147 comments over here. :-)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3764216/posts
Chances are she will never unlearn them.
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