by ferrarilover » 31 Mar 2012, 18:42
Blimey, thanks one and all for the explanations. It saddens me greatly to see that standards are being dropped in education. Either do it correctly, or don't bother, because having a poor educational grounding is the same as having no education at all.
It bemuses and confounds me still when I read applications from graduates for positions within a law firm, and the email is grammatically incorrect.
To some, it seems arcane and needless, and that, to me, is a source of great sadness. If we're not bothering to spell or punctuate correctly, why bother doing anything correctly? Why learn to drive, just hop in a car, you'll pick it up as you go. Why learn to add and multiply, phones have calculators. Why learn to tie shoe laces, just use Velcro.
It's this whole half arsed, 'that'll do' attitude which is going to (at the risk of adopting a Daily Mail stance) send this country straight to hell. That'll do is so very rarely good enough, yet it seems to be the accepted standard these days, especially among public services.
People on the end of 'that'll do' are outraged when they're the victims, but seem to think its appropriate to to it to others. How many hundreds of times have I had to resend letters to Court because they have been lost by useless admin girls? Lose one letter in a year, ok, we all make mistakes, but I send 50 letters a week and I resend half of them at least once because they have been misplaced. And yet, imagine the apoplexy if one of these bints went unpaid because someone in accounts adopted their 'that'll do' attitude and messed up the pay run.
It's a sad state of affairs and one which now, sadly, seems inexorably destined to destroy the fabric of our society and bring us down and down until we are a third world country, so far behind the superpowers of China andRussia that we are the butt of their jokes about stupid people.
Right, I'm off before I do myself a misdemeanor.
Matt.
Blimey, thanks one and all for the explanations. It saddens me greatly to see that standards are being dropped in education. Either do it correctly, or don't bother, because having a poor educational grounding is the same as having no education at all.
It bemuses and confounds me still when I read applications from graduates for positions within a law firm, and the email is grammatically incorrect.
To some, it seems arcane and needless, and that, to me, is a source of great sadness. If we're not bothering to spell or punctuate correctly, why bother doing anything correctly? Why learn to drive, just hop in a car, you'll pick it up as you go. Why learn to add and multiply, phones have calculators. Why learn to tie shoe laces, just use Velcro.
It's this whole half arsed, 'that'll do' attitude which is going to (at the risk of adopting a Daily Mail stance) send this country straight to hell. That'll do is so very rarely good enough, yet it seems to be the accepted standard these days, especially among public services.
People on the end of 'that'll do' are outraged when they're the victims, but seem to think its appropriate to to it to others. How many hundreds of times have I had to resend letters to Court because they have been lost by useless admin girls? Lose one letter in a year, ok, we all make mistakes, but I send 50 letters a week and I resend half of them at least once because they have been misplaced. And yet, imagine the apoplexy if one of these bints went unpaid because someone in accounts adopted their 'that'll do' attitude and messed up the pay run.
It's a sad state of affairs and one which now, sadly, seems inexorably destined to destroy the fabric of our society and bring us down and down until we are a third world country, so far behind the superpowers of China andRussia that we are the butt of their jokes about stupid people.
Right, I'm off before I do myself a misdemeanor.
Matt.
