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[thalionar.livejournal.com]

x-posted to personal journal

Hello! first time posting... a little background: I work for an outsourced helpdesk for a life insurance company.

This morning, I am about to scream at one of my coworkers.

One of the offices is being renovated, and the users are getting moved from one floor to another while their floor is being worked on. With this, all their printers, faxes, everything is also moved.

One of my coworkers consistently puts "Mooved" instead of "moved" in the ticket description. always capitalized, always with 2 o's. Once is accident, six times is ignorance. I tried to gently point it out, and that didn't fly.

Is this picky and petty on my part? Probably, but the man is in his late 60's, fairly well educated and should know better!

Ok. I'm done now.

Comments

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Maybe he thinks it's funny.

Why are you so Mooved about it? I mean, it's not like Mooving these machines is any different. It could be worse. They might have been Mooved to an office across town, instead of one floor... You'd have to get a Mooving van, or maybe some help from professional Moovers.

I want steak for dinner, suddenly...

Smile. It's Friday. Sort of. :-)

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

lol... yeah, there is that... but like I said, we're outsourced, and the generally, the customer (most of our level 2 groups are not outsourced, and the person who called in the ticket gets a copy of it)looks at these tickets.

its better that our folks don't look like morons come time for the contract to get re-upped.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

It bugs me to no end when people do things like that. Spelling and grammar are not frivolous little games for schoolkids. I don't care how cute they think they are by playing stupid. It makes them look like idiots. Nitpicky? Probably. But it's only getting worse.

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Hence the reason I ignore people who IM me with "hi how ru???/??//"

Either they give up and go away, or get a quick lesson from somewhere in proper spelling and grammar. :-)

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

Me too. We used to have a tech (who later got laid off) who considered capitalization and punctuation optional. I used to replu to his emails with 'Repeat that in English?'

My users get copies of all tickets, too.

[jecook]

Could be how his brain is wired. He might be used to writing things out phonetically, and that's how "move" is spelled in that manner. (the o sounds is phonetically two os, so it would be spelled moove.)

But yeah, it gets annoying after a while.

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

I haven't noticed any other issues like that with him, and we send a lot of emails to each other (I do ID requests, he does training).

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

Agreed. As an avid reader and the neice of a high school English teacher, ignorance of the English language drives me bat shit.

Don't get me started on "liberry" and "axed."

It doesn't appear to be an ethnic, regional or class thing either.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

"Athelete"... "aereate"... and of course "nucular"... argghhh!

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

He may have arthritice and the ring finger twitches when he uses it.

[caitriona27.livejournal.com]

Maybe he thinks they are being herded around like cattle??? Hence the Mooved and he thinks it's cute.

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Possibly.

hey, I know that pin! You're a wench!

-Magpie #2120 :)

[caitriona27.livejournal.com]

Yep - I'm Caitriona #2334 Local #9 - Treasurer and Charity officer.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

WTF? Wenches have a Union?

Boy, outsourced call center reps really ARE the only people with no Union..

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

yep, pretty much :)

actually, its a guild, and its mostly for fun :)

[ximinez]

This morning, I am about to scream at one of my coworkers.

Don't you mean "cow-worker"? ;)

[kyndig.livejournal.com]

that shouldn't have made me laugh but it did.

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

*laugh* thanks, that was funny :)

[caerleon.livejournal.com]

That is a cow-orker.. disembowel the twat with a blunt spoon..

HTH.. HAND..

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

What, nobody's linked The Chronicles of George (http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/) yet? Talk about cow-orkers with chronic spelling problems...

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

On that note, am I the only person that learned to spell "lose" as l-o-s-e?

WTF "loose" is the opposite of "tight", and I refuse to believe that "loosing" is a word.