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A recent survey of 120 American corporations [...] by the National Commission on Writing, a panel established by the College Board, concluded that a third of employees in the nation's blue-chip companies wrote poorly and that businesses were spending as much as $3.1 billion annually on remedial training.

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"hI KATHY i am sending u the assignmnet again," one student wrote to her recently. "i had sent you the assignment earlier but i didnt get a respond. If u get this assgnment could u please respond . thanking u for ur cooperation."

I expected this to be a problem, but not to this degree.  I certainly don't see it at my company, with the exception of a certain Bush-backing fellow out East who loved excessive punctuation, but reined it in since someone chided him about it.

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[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

This is really just a "ME TOO!!!" response, but I am constantly surprised at the emails I get from co-workers. There's one lady in the department I used to work in who cannot complete a sentence without using the wrong word, sometimes completely obscuring her meaning. Verb tenses mean nothing to her. Another lady who was my Word Processing backup was so bad at spelling and grammar the bosses gave her a grade 6 level workbook to practice on, because she was unable to type even a short dictation without multiple errors.


I personally believe that companies promote and/or hire based on lots of factors, none of which is intelligence. At least where I work, they want you dumb, because you will be dependent on them and because they can pull a lot over on you.