tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16330918372182678302011-04-21T22:17:20.705-07:00Postings from the edge of a grammar-conscious worldPrincess Sparkle Pantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034772999725516942noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-51787922294375652622008-10-14T12:29:00.000-07:002008-10-14T12:34:42.978-07:00Had the following conversation with a sweetheart, an old-lady admin in Hartford, Connecticut, this afternoon, via instant messenger: <div><br /><div></div><div>DP:</div><div>"Your too much....."</div><div></div><br /><div>Me: </div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IByVRTPCQZo/SPTzwImqWAI/AAAAAAAAAmk/ntKLW0Cvp8s/s1600-h/smiley.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257094673317124098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IByVRTPCQZo/SPTzwImqWAI/AAAAAAAAAmk/ntKLW0Cvp8s/s320/smiley.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>DP:</div><div>"I just got one of these from RM.... they are sooo cute....love 'em."</div><div> </div><div>Me:</div><div>"What's that?"</div><div> </div><div>DP:</div><div>"those little yellow heads.."</div><div> </div><div>Um. What? You misuse "Your" and then expect me to not be surprised if you are unfamiliar with emoticons? Granted, I am not a huge fan, but... seriously? "little yellow heads"?</div><div> </div><div>I love this a whole, whole, whole lot.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-5178792229437565262?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Princess Sparkle Pantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034772999725516942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-33811889923269529872008-08-15T19:23:00.000-07:002008-08-21T11:13:36.475-07:00And they do, but for the wrong reasons. This afternoon they were all nerded out and decided to play with this picture:<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JbUu2ravYNA/SKZBQ0JkcZI/AAAAAAAAAA8/9y7m2uhZVVU/s1600-h/1199659277_d767ffa987.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JbUu2ravYNA/SKZBQ0JkcZI/AAAAAAAAAA8/9y7m2uhZVVU/s320/1199659277_d767ffa987.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234943373997273490" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />And they came up with this:<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JbUu2ravYNA/SKZBBXAqmGI/AAAAAAAAAA0/PGtuM9h9xrg/s1600-h/grammar.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JbUu2ravYNA/SKZBBXAqmGI/AAAAAAAAAA0/PGtuM9h9xrg/s320/grammar.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234943108477261922" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Oh boy. How awesome is it that they spelled it AWSOME? Even with the actual text there they still spelled it wrong. The subject of the email was "new company hero". I'm not so sure about that. Do you think Fluffy could save the day?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-3381188992326952987?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-48457314417870184612008-08-07T14:22:00.000-07:002008-08-07T14:26:55.555-07:00Twice in one day:<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">(I know your checking mail!).</span><br /><br />- Here we have him trying to be cute, and failing due to the your/you're issue. Jerk.<br />--------------<br /><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">its not IT at all its business</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><br />- Here we have him double-whammying with a misuse of its. This sentence sucks.<br /><br />So does this CIO.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-4845731441787018461?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Princess Sparkle Pantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034772999725516942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-78511865923242507892008-08-06T05:53:00.000-07:002008-08-15T20:06:59.086-07:00There is a note on a job folder indicating “Call before <strong>Y’ALL</strong> dig”<br /><br />Hunh? It’s a wonder I still speak a recognizable form of English after five years here!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-7851186592324250789?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-84040644503390111292008-03-17T12:07:00.000-07:002008-08-15T20:07:25.407-07:00<span style="color:#ff0000;">i previously sheduled the days march 27th and 28th off. I am going out of town that weekend. Not noing that i have to work that weekend. Could it be possible to work this weekend to make up for next week? I will gladly appreciated.<br /></span><br />How did this person get out of elementary school?<br /><br />And as all best friends do when you just can't seem to find your words, Princess Sparklepants has provided this analysis:<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">Wowsa. Maybe we should dissect this line by line. Granted, this was IM'ed, but still:<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;">hello Evanessence i previously sheduled the days march 27th and 28th off </span>-<span style="color:#ff6666;">distinct lack of commas, deficiency in capitalization (though, nicely, she did capitalize Evanessence's name), missing "c" in scheduled.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;">I am going out of town that weekend.</span> <span style="color:#ff6666;">-so okay that you start to think the first sentence was a fluke. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;">Not noing that i have to work that weekend. </span><span style="color:#ff9966;">-<span style="color:#ff6666;">Then, you realize, this was just to sucker you in. "Noing" is my new favorite special word. Again, with the capitalization issues, and... you are left wondering. Wondering! Not knowing that she has to work that weekend, what? WHAT? Is this ambiguity intentional, or is she just dumb? We don't know!!</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;">Could it be possible to work this weekend to make up for next week?</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">- I just want to tell her, yes! Yes it could be possible. ANYTHING COULD be possible. Would it, though? Hard to say. Sigh.<br /></span><br />span style="color:#cc66cc;">I will gladly appreciated.<br /></span><span style="color:#ff6666;">- I, too, will be gladly appreciated. Possibly posthumously. But definitely by anyone who appreciates the inanity of awful grammatical skills. Like you.<br /></span><p></p><p>Friends who are snarky together, stay together...</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-8404064450339011129?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-88345239205177513462008-03-17T04:28:00.000-07:002008-08-15T20:08:01.723-07:00I received this email instead of my boss because the email address was not correct. <br /><br /><strong>Hi Fearless Leader,<br /></strong><br /><strong>This is Dumb Ass Ex-Employee* well guess things are bad everywhere heard they are at Fluffy Loves the Sauce too,<br />ive got myself a cad program at home and if you need any drafting done please let me know, i could also come down and work in feild or whatever. Hope the best for all you guys..... <br />Thanks for everything youve done for me Fearless Leader....<br />Tell everyone hi.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />This employee left his employment with us by simply clocking out and going home. At 9am. We didn't even realize he was gone until noon. It has never been confirmed, but it was strongly suspected that he was involved with or had previous knowledge of the actions of another ex-employee who used the computers of female employees for kiddie porn. Yeah, come on back - it worked out so well the first time! Fortunately for us, we're currently at our maximum level of felons allowed. I don't think I even need to mention the grammar at this point.<br /><br />*Some names may be changed to protect the stupid<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-8834523920517751346?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-64024376252424620552008-02-05T08:56:00.000-08:002008-08-15T20:09:31.753-07:00<span style="color:#000000;">I have noticed a disturbing trend lately. My Fearless Leader emails me quote prices like this: 8500$. At first I thought typo and then when it kept happening I’m thinking: “okay, I’m smarter than him – most 1st graders are smarter than him on this point…” And then I got an email from Fluffy yesterday and he priced the job like that! I looked at some proposals that he did and sent to CLIENTS. Price listed the same way. Um, stupidity is apparently contagious. I’ve got to stop him from doing that without making him feel like the moron he is! </span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">I have just received an email from Fearless and, you guessed it....</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">16500$$$ 3 WEEKS</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">ARGHH!! I am wondering if the higher the price the more dollar signs he will put after the number like a restaurant guide. I might need to keep an eye on that.</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-6402437625242462055?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-21856602396087692292008-01-30T12:24:00.000-08:002008-08-15T20:10:25.992-07:00<span style="color:#000000;">Due to my current work situation, my partner in crime at the office has been forced to email me a lot since I'm not there. He apparantly doesn't like apostrophes. I'm sure he knows to use them... right?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">Yea ill be changing it just leave a few ideas on it and ill change it and go over it with everyone</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><span style="color:#000000;">Um, like I'll be trusting him to make changes to my documents.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-2185660239608769229?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-84800036994137576872007-12-19T13:33:00.000-08:002007-12-19T13:36:33.468-08:00When your boss does it, you think, well... he should know better.<br /><br />When HIS boss does it, you think, well... I should have her job:<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">PSP...<br />LBoss, I stopped by, but it looks like you are on a call, so I just thought I would shoot you a Sametime... I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate being included in the dinner tonight, but also to tell you that I regretfully cannot make it. I know you guys will have fun, and please let me know (as always) if there is anything I can do for you while you are here!<br />4:32:56 PM<br />LBoss...<br /><span style="color:#ffcccc;"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Your</span></strong> </span>welcome and have a great time over the Holidays<br />4:33:03 PM<br />PSP...<br />Thanks! You too!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-8480003699413757687?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Princess Sparkle Pantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034772999725516942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-86625194411398195592007-12-19T07:08:00.000-08:002007-12-19T07:31:03.915-08:00That was how this employee would email the rest of the team to tell them that a shipment had arrived. She's been a train wreck since the very beginning and has spent a large part of her employment on (legitimate)medical leave so termination proceedings have been very difficult to navigate. But E is moving to a new department so she won't be his problem anymore....<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JbUu2ravYNA/R2k15Gqj7KI/AAAAAAAAAAU/BHF4tRNh0-I/s1600-h/IMG_2415.jpg"></a><div><br /><strong>Good Morning Evanessence,<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It’s beginning to really connect to me that you are leaving which make me sad to know that the person that brought me aboard<br /><br /><br /><br />is leaving. I will truly miss you; you are a good person and have a wonderful personality. Please feel free to call me up for all your<br /><br /><br /><br />Equipment needs.<br /><br /><br /><br />I left an invoice on you chair and I so took the scale to my desk I will bring it back later.<br /><br /><br /><br />Please let me know when you have some time I would like to talk to you very briefly.</strong><br /><br />It's a sweet note. She seems nice despite being completey incompetent at her job. The spacing and capitalization are all how she sent it. Also, she is the main contact with all their IT vendors. Yeah, they look smart.<br />Oh, and since it is amusing, this is what his staff did to his cube while he was on vacation. Does this mean they will miss him? </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145703695247469746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JbUu2ravYNA/R2k2P2qj7LI/AAAAAAAAAAc/m7UX05yrbfg/s320/IMG_2415.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-8662519441139819559?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-88053325501400294452007-12-10T09:52:00.000-08:002007-12-10T09:55:24.833-08:00God...........what a day..........Sears came and recleaned the carpet in my living..........<span style="color:#6600cc;">supposivley,</span> no water damage to the hardwood floor. Heating and Air guy came to give me an estimate to rewrap out heating <span style="color:#6600cc;">ducks</span> in the crawl space and check the furnance and he said to me "Why do you have water coming in from under the foundation???? So now I have called Trotter the foundation people to come out and see what is going on............they installed a sump pump a few years back to fix this <span style="color:#6600cc;">probelm</span>...........we have no water leak.......so where is this water coming from...............we could possibly be sitting on a natural spring...........Wonderful!!!!<br /><br /><em>I think, maybe, the following:</em><br /><em>supposivley=supposedly</em><br /><em>ducks=ducts</em><br /><em>probelm=problem (okay, I know this is just spelling)</em><br /><br /><em>Sigh.</em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-8805332550140029445?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Princess Sparkle Pantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034772999725516942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-66925763783969711122007-12-07T06:20:00.000-08:002008-08-15T20:12:38.212-07:00<strong>Jer-Bear and Fluffy are going tomorrow they will need per demin?? checks for Friday</strong><br /><br />Well, at least he knows he's making absolutely no sense. Lucky for Jer &amp; Fluf I'm around to know that they need per diem checks. They're luckier that I'm an airhead and accidentally gave them more than I was supposed to.... Shhh... that's our secret as I was not about to void and reissue at 6pm the night I'm trying to get "my boys" out the door. Besides, fearless leader's wife saw and signed the checks so.......<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-6692576378396971112?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-53294200097854717882007-11-20T08:30:00.000-08:002008-08-15T20:13:26.043-07:00I just received an email forwarded to me by my boss with this note on it:<br /><br /><strong>Will sent amount shortly</strong><br /><br />That's it. That's all he's giving me. Hunh? Anyone have the secret decoder ring that tells me what to do with this info? Am I sending something ? Is he sending something? Is the client sending something? Alas, he's not that great at including nouns. Or perhaps something is being <em>set</em>? There is a reason we don't let him write proposals (or pretty much anything for that matter)....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-5329420009785471788?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-43598753602320561782007-11-15T08:53:00.000-08:002007-11-15T08:55:28.668-08:00Email from my boss:<br /><br /><em><span style="color:#009900;">HUGE thanks!</span></em><br /><br />My response:<br /><br /><em><span style="color:#009900;">HUGE <span style="color:#cc33cc;">your</span> welcomes, anytimes, etc.</span></em><br /><br />I caught this immediately, but still too late...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-4359875360232056178?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Princess Sparkle Pantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034772999725516942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-42043755671234991352007-11-14T13:14:00.000-08:002008-08-15T20:14:20.667-07:00I received this message from my friend the Quality Manager:<br /><br />Congratulations Janie,<br />You have successfully passed the audit process. With you keen insight to documentation manipulation and forgery, you have made us a leader in the industry.<br />To reward you, you can not take over QA program in full (as far as I’m concerned.)<br />Thank you very much,<br />Quality Man (former QA man)<br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />He was trying to pass on the dubious title of Quality Manager. That pesky "not" in his sentence tends to negate that sentiment. Let's not even talk about "you keen insight".... I'd like to buy an "r", please. And, in spite of the documentation and forgery claims, I'm really not a criminal.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-4204375567123499135?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590705283323809741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633091837218267830.post-1103370800504028172007-11-14T12:38:00.000-08:002007-11-14T12:50:24.543-08:00From an email today:<br /><br /><em><span style="color:#6633ff;">Thank for your assistance.</span></em><br /><em></em><br />You'r welcom. Asshol.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1633091837218267830-110337080050402817?l=getsomegrammar.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Princess Sparkle Pantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034772999725516942noreply@blogger.com0