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To pick up my recruitment consultant on her bad grammar

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frogspoon · 14/03/2013 14:17

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?

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 14/03/2013 14:52

And when I wrote 'how', I obviously meant 'not'. I have no clue why those two got mixed up, my fingers obviously have a mind of their own.

frogspoon · 14/03/2013 14:52

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?!

If you had read my first post properly, then you would see that I am going for a job as a teacher.

Being dyslexic is irrelevant, a dyslexic who wants to work in a job involving lots of reading or writing has to develop strategies to manage.

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 14/03/2013 14:57

They don't necessarily, frog. The onus is on the employer to make 'reasonable' adjustments and allowances, so it's not always the case that the dyslexic person has to do all the work of developing strategies.

MarmaladeTwatkins · 14/03/2013 14:57

"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?!

If you had read my first post properly, then you would see that I am going for a job as a teacher"

Errrrr, I was referring to your consultant not going for a job as a proofreader/teacher, not you. Maybe your READING skills are not up to much. That won't set you in good stead as a teacher. :)

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