I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
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Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#2"I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why"
Followed by irrelevant rationalizations to justify a pre-made decision.
>Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.), if job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too,” their applications go into the bin.
If you don't respect your employees as people doing a specific job for you (and need to be judged on their skills on that), then you can also add any number of tests and criteria you want to stroke your ego.
"If you can't solve the Rubik's cube fast enough you're not smart enough for us", "If you can't do an effortless cartwheel, leave now", ...
Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#3Hmm…. Working from the title, the author won’t hire people who aren’t native language speakers? Last time I checked, different languages had different grammar and usage which makes it difficult for people to learn new ones. Anecdote: decades back, had a great coworker of Russian extraction. Hell of a time getting him to put articles in his documentation. Code was spot on, though.
Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#4Hmm…. Working from the title, the author won’t hire people who aren’t native language speakers? Last time I checked, different languages had different grammar and usage which makes it difficult for people to learn new ones. Anecdote: decades back, had a great coworker of Russian extraction. Hell of a time getting him to put articles in his documentation. Code was spot on, though.
You can also be a great programmer or a great hardware technician (since we're talking about "iFixIt") and suck at grammar and/or spelling, even without having dyslexia. Perhaps you never cared for non-programming languages, and was bored at school when you were not programming...
The author just has some prejudices and ossified criteria, and since they are in a position to judge people based on them, they do.
Famously Einstein was a very bad speller, not just in English, but also in his native German. But according to this nitwit he wouldn't be smart enough to work at ifixit.
Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#5Hmm…. Working from the title, the author won’t hire people who aren’t native language speakers? Last time I checked, different languages had different grammar and usage which makes it difficult for people to learn new ones. Anecdote: decades back, had a great coworker of Russian extraction. Hell of a time getting him to put articles in his documentation. Code was spot on, though.
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Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#6Sell screwdrivers.
Feel entitled.
Choose pet peeve.
Live's great.
And short.
BTW.
Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
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Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#8"I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why" Followed by irrelevant rationalizations to justify a pre-made decision. > Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.), if job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too,” their applications go into the bin. If you…
to be fair, when "to" and "too" is not a typo, its quite insane. especially I sometimes see it from english native speakers, and one just has to wonder "how does this happen???"
Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#9The author's grammar and style wouldn't cut the mustard at some agencies where writing is the difference between delight and dejection.
Re: I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (2012)
#10"I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why" Followed by irrelevant rationalizations to justify a pre-made decision. > Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.), if job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too,” their applications go into the bin. If you…
to be fair, when "to" and "too" is not a typo, its quite insane. especially I sometimes see it from english native speakers, and one just has to wonder "how does this happen???"
It happens cause the words sound similar and they are also spelled in a similar way.????