I recently read a dreadful statistic.
It said:
A recent survey found Fortune 500 companies spending more than $3 billion a year retraining employees in basic English.
(Or as I would have said: A recent survey found that Fortune 500 companies are spending more than $3 billion a year re-training employees in basic English.)
My first thought, apart from the fact that the sentence needed correcting was what a waste of money. But then I realized that I wasn't really surprised.
I was thinking about some of the resumes we have received recently from potential employees. Yes, they need re-training in basic English - or is re-training the right word? Did they ever master basic English?
When you receive a job application where the applicant tells you that he has attached his 'resm' you assume that he has spent too much time texting. But to send a job application with errors .....!
One thing is for sure, TSDG expect employees to have more than just a knowledge of basic English. We expect someone who, after all, has a design degree, to be intelligent enough to have more than a basic knowledge or at least the ability to use a spellchecker.
Am I being unreasonable in expecting staff to be able to present work to clients WITHOUT it having typos? Evidently I am.
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