Posted on 07/15/2019 1:18:34 PM PDT by servo1969
Full Title: Millennial Writer Cries for Mother at Work, Puts Mother on Speakerphone after Editor Corrects Her Spelling
How does a boss manage a worker who believes their feelings trump reality, right down to the way she "feels" about her misspelled words?
Gently. And probably badly, even though that's no fault of the boss in question.
Carol Blymire -- a "communications and public policy executive, branding consultant, professor, writer" -- took to Twitter on Friday to tell the story she overheard of a young writer, probably "in her late 20s," going over edits with her boss.
What issue caused mentor and student such agitation and aggravation? Had the boss been needlessly cruel? Had the young writer pushed some radical agenda, and was refusing to tamp it down a bit? Hardly. They were arguing over how to spell "hamster." You know, the little furry rodents some people keep in one of those winding Habitrail cages.
Can you guess what happened next? The young woman, according to Blymire, "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."
You might think at this point that the writer would have taken a cue from her boss, and engaged herself with the same calm, cool, professionalism. Actually, at this point in the story you wouldn't think that at all, would you?
And you'd be right not to:
Our young hero (in her own mind only), had apparently texted her mother for support in this Hampster Crisis, and her dutiful mother called her right up. If one of my kids had called me or my wife in a similar situation, I know exactly what either one of us would have said.
"It's spelled 'hamster.' Now go apologize to your boss for causing a scene."
I imagine if you'd read this far, you'd have given similar advice. I also imagine that you're already certain that's not what happened here.
The young woman put her mom on speakerphone, "IN THE WORKPLACE," as Blymire caps-locked for emphasis, and what happened next would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Feelings trump reality. Misspelling words is "creative."
The call ended, Blymire wrote, with the writer asked her mom if she should take the matter over her boss's head: "I mean, I always spell hamster with a P, she has no right to criticize me."
Blymire added that "her boss seemed as dumbfounded through the conversation as I was in overhearing it." But being dumbfounded was limited to the person who overheard the whole silly scene.
Indeed.
Apparently what Blymire overheard is no isolated case.
This is Generation Participation Trophy, has been set loose on the private sector where, to quote Dr. Raymond Stantz, "they expect results." They even -- as outrageous as this sounds -- expect their writers to use proper spelling. And to listen to their editors when they do a little editing.
One can only hope this sort of muddle-headed nonsense is limited to the liberal arts vocations. Nobody wants to drive across a bridge built to some Millennial engineer's feelings about what won't collapse.
When you meet a dog who flinches from being petted, you can be pretty sure they're abused at home. When you run across an adult-aged human who can't take constructive criticism, you can be pretty sure they never got any from their parents, or maybe even not from their teachers. But the saddest part of this tale is that no one ever loved this young woman enough to provide her the guidance and discipline everyone needs to cope in the real world.
UPDATE: Fausta Wertz commented at Facebook, "Fire her sorry butt."
And you know what? That might just be the tough love she needs.
YUP; that’s why I don’t use STUPIDIA for any thing!
Yeah, like this; it was really windy while driving down the windy road.
I really hate that crap!
When I was a Mgr., one of my admin. group employees b. in England drove us all batty. ...He pronounced the word Wednesday as WeD-nes-day.
She sounds like a lot of those I met in an education based college class - budding teachers with no sense of the English language....
I don’t think they will either. You have the best world...
“that’s supposed to prove something about 40 million Americans.
No. It is supposed to illustrate something that many of us already know about all too many people.”
Exactly my point. It’s just made up red meat for the believers. This type of article is the stock and trade of the leftist press. Think hoaxes.
My heggakes now.
LOL!
Actually, we used to call it a “Dempster”
I’ll bet she was white. Black parents are not that indulgent.
This girl was most likely an only child with some native intelligence who went to a liberal arts U like Swarthmore or Mt Holyoke. Mama was an addle-brained liberal and Papa is a doctor or a graduate of Harvard who makes enough money to support their extravagant lifestyle.
The precious darling had her first trip to the Louvre in Paris at age 6 and before graduating high school had been to Rome, London, and all the other cultural centers of the world. Her parents were proud that she was the most cosmopolitan, well-traveled child her age at the expensive prep school she attended before college. Her mother is her best friend and Mama drove her to the gynecologist to get her first contraception at age 16.
They’re pretty easy to spot.
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