Pointless and petty but FUN
Sep. 15th, 2010 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flyboy_foxAhahaha, it's amazing what a little snark can do for one's mood (:
Just before my phone interview, the door buzzer startled the crap out of me (I was on edge waiting for the call). Jei answered it and it was someone wanting to be let in to deliver 'a parcel'. She buzzed them in, and lo and behold a minute or so later a flyer comes through our letter flap instead! Hmm~ sneaky sneaky.
So, what is this flyer? It turned out to be a 'letter' (if you could call it that) from Palmer Snell Estate Agents claiming that a "Mr M" is looking for property in the Meyrick Park area and asking if we're planning on selling. Obviously the same letter was slipped through everyone in the block's doors. Nothing much of interest about that, except that the letter itself was appallingly written. The first sentence did not even remotely make sense. It was basically a conglomeration of two completely different sentences, starting out as one and somehow merging into the other midway. The third sentence was a fragment and should have been connected to the second sentence with a comma rather than as an isolated segment. So on and so on. Grammatical errors were abound, also, with words missing and inappropriate punctuation/capitalization. The whole thing was such a mess that I was quite honestly sickened. It's one thing to spam residents with your crap (we get them all the time), but somehow it's unfathomably worse when the 'letter' supposedly came from an "Associate Director" with the writing skills of a ten-year-old (if that!).
Now, I'm not a 'Grammar Nazi' the way I used to be. My own journal is a mess of sentence fragments and 'creative' grammar, with the occasional typo I'm sure. But when professional publications come along looking like no thought went into them whatsoever, it irks me big time. I'm exactly the sort of person that 'Eats Shoots and Leaves' was written for. So what did I do?
I proofed that bugger. I took my editing pen to it, corrected it, and added a small addendum telling them that if they intend to spam us with flyers then they should at least hire staff who can write coherently and correctly. I also added that their delivery person had illegally gained entry to our block of flats by impersonating a parcel delivery person. I didn't supply contact details; I don't need my response validated. I just wanted them to read my snark and hopefully rage. I can imagine it's more likely that they'll just 'wtf' and chuck it right in the trash but eh. I enjoy being petty and anal-retentive sometimes. ♥
Just before my phone interview, the door buzzer startled the crap out of me (I was on edge waiting for the call). Jei answered it and it was someone wanting to be let in to deliver 'a parcel'. She buzzed them in, and lo and behold a minute or so later a flyer comes through our letter flap instead! Hmm~ sneaky sneaky.
So, what is this flyer? It turned out to be a 'letter' (if you could call it that) from Palmer Snell Estate Agents claiming that a "Mr M" is looking for property in the Meyrick Park area and asking if we're planning on selling. Obviously the same letter was slipped through everyone in the block's doors. Nothing much of interest about that, except that the letter itself was appallingly written. The first sentence did not even remotely make sense. It was basically a conglomeration of two completely different sentences, starting out as one and somehow merging into the other midway. The third sentence was a fragment and should have been connected to the second sentence with a comma rather than as an isolated segment. So on and so on. Grammatical errors were abound, also, with words missing and inappropriate punctuation/capitalization. The whole thing was such a mess that I was quite honestly sickened. It's one thing to spam residents with your crap (we get them all the time), but somehow it's unfathomably worse when the 'letter' supposedly came from an "Associate Director" with the writing skills of a ten-year-old (if that!).
Now, I'm not a 'Grammar Nazi' the way I used to be. My own journal is a mess of sentence fragments and 'creative' grammar, with the occasional typo I'm sure. But when professional publications come along looking like no thought went into them whatsoever, it irks me big time. I'm exactly the sort of person that 'Eats Shoots and Leaves' was written for. So what did I do?
I proofed that bugger. I took my editing pen to it, corrected it, and added a small addendum telling them that if they intend to spam us with flyers then they should at least hire staff who can write coherently and correctly. I also added that their delivery person had illegally gained entry to our block of flats by impersonating a parcel delivery person. I didn't supply contact details; I don't need my response validated. I just wanted them to read my snark and hopefully rage. I can imagine it's more likely that they'll just 'wtf' and chuck it right in the trash but eh. I enjoy being petty and anal-retentive sometimes. ♥
