How does a boss manage a worker who believes their feelings trump reality , right down to the way she ” feels ” about her misspelled words ?
Gently. And probably badly , even though that’s no fault of the boss in question.
Carol Blymire , a ” communications and public policy executive , branding consultant , professor , writer ” , took to Twitter on Friday to tell the story she overheard of a young writer , probably ” in her late 20s ” going over edits with her boss.
The boss ( also a woman ) was giving her feedback and reviewing edits she had made on something this young woman wrote.
They had been speaking in low tones , but their volume got louder toward the end of the conversation because the young woman was getting agitated about a particular edit.
What issue caused mentor and student such agitation and aggravation ? Had the boss been needlessly cruel ? Had the young writer pushed some radical agenda , and was refusing to tamp it down a bit ? Hardly. They were arguing over how to spell ” hamster “… You know , the little furry rodents some people keep in one of those winding Habitrail cages.
That particular edit was correcting the spelling of “ hampster ” to “ hamster ”. Apparently she had used the phrase “ like spinning in a hamster wheel ” in this draft ( presumably ) speech or or op-ed.
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.”
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 http://dictionary.com and look it up together.
Now keep in mind , this is a woman who needs a lesson in spelling in her late 20s , not a 5th grader …
The young woman , according to Blymire , ” 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.”
Bizarre ain’t it ! …
The article goes on for a bit , then gets to what this twerp did after this … Horrifying ! incident …
Our young hero ( in her own mind only ) , had apparently texted her mother for support in this Hampster Crisis , and her dutiful mother called her right up !!! …
Not only that … This young woman put her mom on speakerphone , ” IN THE WORKPLACE “…
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 ”!!! …
What a wuss-ass loser !!! … And the parents are obviously pathetic and never should have become parents ! …
Naturally , this is what the brat’s mommy says …
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.
Just what happens with these last couple of generations when all us preceding old farts aren’t around to look after the complicated set up ( that people with actual brains have constructed ) , put in place and tend to , have left this mortal coil ? …
With an education system that is more concerned with rewarding ‘ participation ‘ , rather than accuracy and knowledge … And no ‘ mom and dad ‘ to bail them out and save the day … They will perish prematurely for sure …
This is Generation Participation Trophy , and has been set loose on the private sector where , to quote Dr. Raymond Stantz , ” they expect results “… They even , as outrageous as this sounds , expect their writers to use PROPER SPELLING !!! … And to listen to their editors when they do a little editing.
One can only hope this sort of muddle-headed nonsense is limited to the liberal arts vocations. Nobody wants to drive across a bridge built to some Millennial engineer’s feelings about what won’t collapse …
Millennial Writer Cries at Work , Puts Mommy on Speakerphone …
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