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» Worst Person for the Job

Don't trust spell check
Back in school, we had prefects 'responsible' for various bits of the IT infrastructure.

A friend was applying for such a position, and had duly writing a covering letter. Not being the world's best speller, the resulting letter was a swathe of red squiggles, which he proceeded to fix by accepting the spell checker's default suggestion every time.

This proved somewhat unwise! He ended up submitting an application letter that opened:


Dear Mr Smith,

I am appalling for the job of...
(Wed 12th Sep 2012, 23:22, More)