I'm stupid

Goshen

I sent an email to a recruitment agent today in response to their email looking for someone who had a min of 50wpm typing speed

"60wph typing speed. 100% accuracy."

Honestly.

dxhound2005

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

LeinsterDub

Goshen wrote: »

I sent an email to a recruitment agent today in response to their email looking for someone who had a min of 50wpm typing speed

"60wph typing speed. 100% accuracy."

Honestly.

At 60 words per hour you'd expect 100 % accuracy

LowOdour

I'm not here to disagree the title of this thread

bodhrandude

Ah well at least you gave them a laugh.

Cold War Kid

Goshen wrote: »

I sent an email to a recruitment agent today in response to their email looking for someone who had a min of 50wpm typing speed

"60wph typing speed. 100% accuracy."

Honestly.

Yeh I once wrote in an application for a proof-reading role "I have a strong command of the English languge". Didn't get it.

That kinda stuff is a guarantee really.

Whenever someone is going on about someone else's spelling/grammar/punctuation, they always make an error themselves. :pac:

fussyonion

Gimmie the details for that job. I have a WPM of 90.

Slicemeister

Your honesty is to be applauded OP. Ya bloody eejit ya!!!

allthedoyles

wonder will you get the job as fast as you can type

bodhrandude

When hitching out of Kinvara at the cuckoo fleadh, my stupid drug addled and beer sodden brain wrote instead of Galway, Gayway on a piece of cardboard . It took a driver to stop and tell me about my typo, he gave me a lift to as it was one of the funniest things he'd seen.

thelad95

A friend of mine was throwing out a few CV's looking for part-time work going into college. On his CV was his Leaving Cert results which included an A1 in English. Of course, on his CV, he spelt college as 'collage'.

I'd say every single CV was chucked straight in the bin after that.

TheBeardedLady

Hahahaha. I have an image of you sitting there with your tongue out and typing with one finger reeeeeeeally slowly trying to find the next key for about 5 minutes.

Cold War Kid

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

Hahahaha. I have an image of you sitting there with your tongue out and typing with one finger reeeeeeeally slowly trying to find the next key for about 5 minutes.

Like my brother: "This keyboard has no f'ucking "M"! :mad:"

Mr_Muffin

I an extremely dumb. Really I am. I know it and everyone else sure does.

It makes me sad at times being such an idiot. I actually think there are animals that have a greater mental capacity than me serious.

Does the OP type with their nose?

TheBeardedLady

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Like my brother: "This keyboard has no f'ucking "M"! :mad:"

LadyAthame

Goshen wrote: »

I sent an email to a recruitment agent today in response to their email looking for someone who had a min of 50wpm typing speed

"60wph typing speed. 100% accuracy."

Honestly.

Dear Sir.
You will need to f**k up considerably more than that if you wish to make it into the reader's digest column.
Kindest Regards,
The Editor.

There , there OP. It's just one little letter. :pac:

I like your 'I can laugh at myself' attitude.:) With it, you'll make friends and influence people.


But fingers crossed they won't notice.

NO ONE is stupid.

Smart people don't think others are stupid. So if your potential employers are intelligent they won't jump to the immediate conclusion inferred by your mistake. Being stupid means avoiding thinking by jumping to conclusions.

Do you know one of the ways people fake intelligence is to correct the trivial mistakes of others?

' Stupid ' is a label that provides a fake full stop. Calling someone stupid shows lack of intellectual curiosity.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Goshen wrote: »

I sent an email to a recruitment agent today in response to their email looking for someone who had a min of 50wpm typing speed

"60wph typing speed. 100% accuracy."

Honestly.

LeinsterDub wrote: »

At 60 words per hour you'd expect 100 % accuracy

Isn't that the joke, or am I missing something?

BunkMoreland

Crew Helpless Teenager wrote: »

Isn't that the joke, or am I missing something?

It's the joke repeated, and got more thanks, which is strange.

thelad95

LadyAthame wrote: »

Dear Sir.
You will need to f**k up considerably more than that if you wish to make it into the reader's digest column.
Kindest Regards,
The Editor.

There , there OP. It's just one little letter. :pac:

I like your 'I can laugh at myself' attitude.:) With it, you'll make friends and influence people.


But fingers crossed they won't notice.

NO ONE is stupid.

Smart people don't think others are stupid. So if your potential employers are intelligent they won't jump to the immediate conclusion inferred by your mistake. Being stupid means avoiding thinking by jumping to conclusions.

Do you know one of the ways people fake intelligence is to correct the trivial mistakes of others?

' Stupid ' is a label that provides a fake full stop. Calling someone stupid shows lack of intellectual curiosity.

Meh. If there's a couple of hundred applications then they will use minor details to narrow down the field.

Learn from it and move on OP

4zn76tysfajdxp

BunkMoreland wrote: »

It's the joke repeated, and got more thanks, which is strange.

It is. Very unusual.

Earthhorse

BunkMoreland wrote: »

It's the joke repeated, and got more thanks, which is strange.

Crew Helpless Teenager wrote: »

It is. Very unusual.

No. It's just the internet.

Earthhorse

One time my boss came over to me with a letter he'd printed and a concerned look on his face. He had addressed a letter to Ulster Bank, George's Dick. He couldn't work out how that had happened as the address was George's Quay until I pointed out that that he obviously meant George's Dock. Never seen a man so relieved.

Goshen

The irony is me typing '100% accuracy' for the first time in my long long life, directly after making an horrendous error lol.

The reason I typed that is because at 60wpm I am 100% accurate, but my highest speed is 65wpm with 98% accuracy.

Never again.

Mint Aero

Goshen wrote: »

The irony is me typing '100% accuracy' for the first time in my long long life, directly after making an horrendous error lol.

The reason I typed that is because at 60wpm I am 100% accurate, but my highest speed is 65wpm with 98% accuracy.

Never again.

On first glance, I've spotted 2 mistakes here

One eyed Jack

Mint Aero wrote: »

On first glance, I've spotted 2 mistakes here

They were probably attempting to do 90wpm, better call Mavis Beacon

fatknacker

Earthhorse wrote: »

No. It's just the internet.

Plus it's the thread for stupid people.

People who spell "school" wrongly on their CV

LadyAthame

Goshen wrote: »

The irony is me typing '100% accuracy' for the first time in my long long life, directly after making an horrendous error lol.

The reason I typed that is because at 60wpm I am 100% accurate, but my highest speed is 65wpm with 98% accuracy.

Never again.

Keep it going. I like your patter. We're on a roll.

Tin Foil Hat

Goshen wrote: »

I sent an email to a recruitment agent today in response to their email looking for someone who had a min of 50wpm typing speed

"60wph typing speed. 100% accuracy."

Honestly.

They might reciprocate and offer you a job at €9.50 per minute.

OP, Don't feel too bad, just google for " Stationary Officer Job"
Great for standing still but crap at paperwork.

heldel00

The amount of cvs that come into our school addressed to:
The principle ...

She actually rings them to ask them to remember - the princiPAL is your pal!
She hates the thought of them sending cvs to other schools with that mistake.

I hate the thought of having to work woth them!

lila1

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

They might reciprocate and offer you a job at €9.50 per minute.

The times that are in it you would be lucky getting 9.50 an hour.

dxhound2005

heldel00 wrote: »

The amount of cvs that come into our school addressed to:
The principle ...

She actually rings them to ask them to remember - the princiPAL is your pal!
She hates the thought of them sending cvs to other schools with that mistake.

I hate the thought of having to work woth them!

If she is also a grammarist, she would frown on your usage of amount there. She would point out that it should be number.

Massimo Cassagrande

heldel00 wrote: »

The amount of cvs that come into our school addressed to:
The principle ...

She actually rings them to ask them to remember - the princiPAL is your pal!
She hates the thought of them sending cvs to other schools with that mistake.

I hate the thought of having to work woth them!

She sounds like a gowl.

Massimo Cassagrande

heldel00 wrote: »

The amount of cvs that come into our school addressed to:
The principle ...

She actually rings them to ask them to remember - the princiPAL is your pal!
She hates the thought of them sending cvs to other schools with that mistake.

I hate the thought of having to work woth them!

She sounds like a gowl. Also, what's "woth them".

ardinn

I sent an e-mail application stating my "excellent IT skills"

Forgetting to attach my C.V.

WoollyRedHat

I once went for a job interview for a technolgoy based role and upon meeting the person interviewing me, who asked if I had any trouble finding the place on google maps, informed them that I didn't really know how to use google maps.

Flood

Stick it in

The Princess Bride

I've a friend who received a reference from a school principal recommending the person for a secretarial role, saying, he had "every thrust in her"!
Possibly more information than was necessary.:D

heldel00

dxhound2005 wrote: »

If she is also a grammarist, she would frown on your usage of amount there. She would point out that it should be number.

Apologies. I always get pulled up on my use of colloquialisms on boards. Forget myself when I feel like I'm chatting with friends!

heldel00

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

She sounds like a gowl. Also, what's "woth them".

Give me a break Mass. Obviously a typo!

Massimo Cassagrande

heldel00 wrote: »

Give me a break Mass. Obviously a typo!

Maybe the "principle" was a typo....pal....sniffs snobbishly....

Auto-correct is the enemy of dignity. I got a text from a friend asking me how many doughnuts he needed to buy for a talk we were giving, and where should he set them out.

The text he got back said:

'Sex, on the table up against the window. I'll be there in an hour and if you're ready and I'll just get straight down to business'.

The difference a vowel can make.

somefeen

Mavis Beacon isn't even a real person.
I was shocked

5rtytry56

AH response: next time before replying take a dose of " hair O' the dog " OP.

RoadhouseBlues

I hate giving directions. I get all flustered when someone asks me. Years ago I was hitching and a car pulled up. It was an old couple and they were looking for directions to the town I was going to. I got so flustered I gave them the directions and let them drive away. I feckin' forgot to tell them I was trying to get there:-(

thecamcam

^^ lol