I don't know if I brought this up and I'm not going back pages to find out, but:
I know somebody in a top profession that took money and years of schooling to get where that person was. And when this person wanted to switch to another job and had to fill out a resume, I was utterly embarassed by how this person did it. Let's pretend this person's name is Dick Trickle. The name was signed on the resume:
dick.trickle
Yes, not capitalized and for some odd reason combined with a period.
If it's one thing I have learned over the many years, even "smart" people who had schooling, can be good at one or two things, but be idiots in others or at least inept. I'm baffled by how often people want to give another somebody with a degree in something, leadway on an issue because they assume that person is obviously more intelligent than them.
For me, if I was the HR director looking at that, I'd think I was dealing with a twelve year old. I wouldn't expect every applicant to be masters of the English language, but I at least expect them to be able to write their own name.
It's such a simple thing to capitalize proper nouns, yet I'm baffled and frustrated by how often I see people (and it's increased dramatically in recent years online, that I have seen) incapable of that. Just the other day I saw a local business website full of odd capitalization of words that are not proper nouns (among other errors spotted). Or other local businesses placing job ads where they can't even be bothered to capitalize their own businesses name.
On a related tangent, now that I'm on a ranting roll, how about people that go to Craigslist and post their resume or that they want work, in the jobs section? There are TWO seperate forums to post your resume or ask for work, and yet these bone heads post in the forum designed to offer employment. If I were an employer looking to hire and I saw that, that's one person I would immediately skip -- they aren't even bright enough to use Craigslist, and that's not a tough one!
. Alas, I can't have one as I live in a sort of penthouse on top of a shopping mall. The mall's aircondition system runs all day and makes a very unpleasant extremely deep humming noise. It almost drove my late hamster insane and reptiles are even more sensitive to vibrations. It'd be a torture for the poor critter.
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We're checking on vitamin or mineral deprivation now.
