Saturday, November 21, 2020

Delusional Employee Defends Spelling of "Hampster"


Just cause you want something to be spelled a certain way doesn't mean it's actually spelled that way. It's something many creators of spelling fails never seem to learn. In this case she went and doubled down rather than deferring to the whole world telling her that there's no "P" in "Hamster." Is that the hill anyone wants to die on?

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Text - Text - Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire · Jul 12, 2019 Replying to @CarolBlymire In office space near a client, a young woman was meeting with her boss. She was (by my estimation) in her late 20s. Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire The boss (also a woman) was giving her feedback and reviewing edits she had made on something this young woman wrote. 5:21 PM · Jul 12, 2019 1.3K 83 people are Tweeting about this Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire · Jul 12, 2019 Replying to @CarolBlymire They had been speaking i

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Text - Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire · Jul 12, 2019 Replying to @CarolBlymire The young woman kept saying, "I don't know why you corrected that because I spell it with the P in it." The boss said (calmly), "But that's not how the word is spelled. There is no P in hamster." Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire Young woman: "But you don't know that! I learned to spell it with a P in it so that's how I spell it." The boss (remaining very calm and professional), let's go to dictionary.com and look it up togeth

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Text - Text - Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire · Jul 12, 2019 Replying to @CarolBlymire The young woman insists she doesn't need to look it up because it's FINE to spell it with a P because that's HOW SHE WANTED TO SPELL IT. Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire The boss says, "Let's look over the rest of the piece so I can explain the rest of my edits." They do, and I can see the young woman is fighting back tears. The boss is calm, cool, and handles this with professionalism and empathy. 5:28 PM · Jul 12, 20

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Text - Text - Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire · Jul 12, 2019 Replying to @CarolBlymire Boss says, "I know edits can be difficult to go over sometimes, especially when you're working on new kinds of things as you grow in your career, but it's a necessary process and makes us all better at what we do." Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire Boss gets up from table and goes to her office and the young woman can barely hold it together. She moves to another table in the common workspace area, drops all her stuff l

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Text - Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire · Jul 12, 2019 Replying to @CarolBlymire It was her mom. She had texted her mom to call her because it was urgent, and I'm sure her mother maybe thought she was in the ER or something. She then ... PUTS HER MOM ON SPEAKERPHONE. IN THE WORKPLACE. Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire She bursts into tears and wants her mom to call her boss and tell her not to be mean about telling her how to spell words like "hamster". 5:33 PM · Jul 12, 2019 2.6K 186 people are Tweeting a

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Text - Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire Jul 12, 2019 Replying to @CarolBlymire The mother tells her that her boss is an idiot and she doesn't have to listen to her and she should go to the boss' boss to file a complaint about not allowing creativity in her writing. Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire The young woman kept saying, "I thought what I wrote was perfect and she just made all these changes and then had the nerve to tell me I was spelling words wrong when I know they are right because that is how I

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Text - Carol Blymire Replying to @CarolBlymire @CarolBlymire · Jul 12, 2019 She then went on (still on speakerphone) to tell her mom l'm very great and office-inappropriate detail about how hungover she was and what she and her friends did with some guys the night before. Mom laughed and laughed. Carol Blymire @CarolBlymire The colleagues in and around the workplace kept looking at one another and some even put earbuds/headphones in/on. It appeared as though this was a regular thing with her. 5:

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