To pick up my recruitment consultant on her bad grammar

[frogspoon]

I am currently working as a supply teacher and have regular email contact with recruitment consultants from different agencies.

One consultant always begins her emails with "I hope your well today." It really annoys me, and I am always so tempted to reply with "you're" She also put a full stop at the end of a question. English is her first language, so she doesn't really have an excuse.

I think the thing that annoys me most is that she is the one with a full time job (despite her grammar), and I am the person looking for work.

I am being unreasonable, aren't I?

I frequently put a full stop instead of a question mark. It's a typing error and annoying to me as well. YABabitU.

YANBU to be annoyed by it, but you would BU to actually comment on it.

*I meant comment on it to her.

Well depends how rude you want to be and if you want to get any more work from her I guess.

Is she a specialist education recruitment consultant? I'd be concerned about how she was presenting you to potential clients tbh.

If you want to challenge her - and I'd be itching to - you could phrase it as "I'm grateful that you always get back to me so quickly when you're obviously so busy, but I just wanted to check that when you contact schools on my behalf you do lots of spell checking and proof reading." In other words, showing that you value the work she does but also have an eye to your professional presentation/reputation.

I know fully employed science teachers who spell like that.Fortunately they are inspiring people.

I wouldn't bother either getting annoyed with or correcting the grammar of recruitment consultants. You will get hypertension and become an unpaid full time copy-editor if my experience is anything to go by. And you'll get on their tits so they won't make an effort to find you a job. I await flaming for these comments but it is based on past exp.

There's nothing worse than bad grammar and spelling. How is it such a hard concept to grasp?
I wouldn't point it out but would put in my reply email something that mentioned the correct 'you're' and hope she noticed!

I do feel your pain OP. I think it's really bad and unacceptable that things like this are just the norm now in the workplace. It makes me a bit tbh to have to plough through people's rotten English in the context of a professional setting.
What can you do though? I probably wouldn't point it out.

Plantsitter has called it. Correct away. But don't ever expect to get a job out of her.

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I think the thing that annoys me most is that she is the one with a full time job (despite her grammar), and I am the person looking for work"

Maybe when she is faced with an employer during an interview, she comes across as personable, courteous, friendly, whereas you...

There is a sign where I work which says in huge letters "insure this door is closed at all times'
Aargh!

Maybe when she is faced with an employer during an interview, she comes across as personable, courteous, friendly, whereas you

That's really unfair. You have no idea how the OP comes across in interview.

I'[d feel exactly the same in her position but of course she won't be able to do anything about it apart from grit her teeth.

Mmm. I get why you're irritated, given the position you're in and she's in. I think full stops are excusable at the end of questions, but not ideal. It's an easy typing error. But consistently putting 'your' must be getting to you when you're feeling down about not getting jobs.

I'd just model the correct response back to her in a slightly PA way, starting emails with 'I hope you're well'.

actually, there are much worse things to whinge about. Does it really bother you that much?

That's why I said "Maybe"!

Sadly, grammar, or lack of it, alone does not guarantee you a job nor does it guarantee that you won't get a job. Someone could have appalling spelling but be excellent at other things. Unless you're going for a job as a proofreader/teacher/something else where spelling/grammar plays a massive role then wtf does it actually matter?!

How bad would OP feel if her consultant was dyslexic? My nephew is dyslexic but he works as a chef. Should be be allowed his full-time job even though his grammar is lacking?

I think it would be unusual if it didn't bother her. If I were unable to get stable employment I'd certainly be hacked off receiving emails like that from someone who can't communicate on a professional level.

Chefs don't have communicating to professional in writing as an essential part of their job.

I'm not going to say anything, but only because I want a job. I'll just stay pointing out grammar flaws in my head...

"to professionals*, sorry.

It's fair enough that poor grammar irks someone. It irks me. But I wouldn't say "Is it fair that someone with shit grammar has a job and I do not?" That's a twatty thing to say! Why, apart from your exemplary spelling and grammar, are YOU more worthy of a job than someone with less than perfect S&G?!

Oh bugger. The sun's on the screen.

She's a recruitment consultant not a sodding professor. She has to send out emails to out of work teachers. Big deal. She isn't writing out legal documents for the Queen.

I know at least one sodding professor with terrible grammar. But I digress. I think the OP is only having a moan because it's depressing how having a job. I do get where you're coming from, though, marmalade, and obviously it would be massively wankerish to correct her rather that fuming silently.

If you want her to find you a job I'd really not mention it!