Institooshun Of Hire Lurning

Bylyngual ad?

AND THE PERSON WHO WROTE THAT WAS A COLLAGE GRADUATE AND THEIR DAWG AND KATT MUST BE RUNNING AWAY

Let the person who ALWAYS uses his/her Spellchecker cast the first stone! :-)

O-fis-i-ay?

Is that like a sommelier?

Could be a Librano trough feeder transferred from Quebec.

The ad seems to read :

Wanted, office workers who can spel. = TG

Youse guys mus all be 3rd grade skool teachers. I read thru this five times and never spotted the mistake till I read the comments.

Is this the mediocrity of the MSM or public edjeekashun on display?

I used to work in Timmins, Ontario and the Timmins Daily Star had hired a new managing editor.
So they put that little story on their front page below the fold with the following headline.

"Daily Star Hires New Managing Eidtor"

Damn, that cracked me up. I had that kept for amusement but appear to have since lost it.

Still, good times.

Then there were the municipal elections in one of the local small towns and the photog had taken a pic of two candidates talking and had used a "placeholder" caption to be replaced later.

The caption?

"Candidate A & candidate B shoot the shit while waiting for election results."

They didn't change the caption when it went to print and I DO have a copy of that.

Again, good times.

Not just once, but twice. Inability to spell it correctly and inability to use spell checker......

C'mon, you all know how they teach in schools nowadays. It's not as important to get things right as it is to make sure you got your message across.

That's what passes for education in Canada. That may be okay for grammar since most of can decipher to some extent, but they do the same with math!!

As long as you meant to get the right answer, it doesn't really matter ... you still get a math ribbon for showing up.

These are the kids who going to work in banks, stock markets and tax departments etc. Lord help us.

When people have little or no confidence nor ability, they tend to be bad decision makers.

Guys like Al Gore and David Suzuki love, want and need kids just that. They will do the mindless trench work.

Vive la Liberal education. The global collective awaits you.

If you think the CEO's of this country have Canada's best interest at heart, consider the "A" rating they gave our education system in their infamoust "Canada is slipping into mediocrity" report:

OTTAWA, June 13 /CNW Telbec/ - Canada's socio-economic performance is
mediocre compared to other developed countries, according to the Conference
Board's 11th annual snapshot of Canada's outcomes in six domains-Economy,
Innovation, Environment, Education and Skills, Health and Society.
...
Canada's best grade, an "A," comes in the Education and Skills domain.
With comparatively modest spending, Canada delivers high-quality education to
people between ages 5 and 25.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/13/c4065.html

High quality education? Worthy of an A grade? What planet are these guys on? I can't speak for all provinces but Ontario's education system is absolute garbage.

Engage, Enlighten, Exprole.

Andrew

****High quality education? Worthy of an A grade? What planet are these guys on? I can't speak for all provinces but Ontario's education system is absolute garbage.******

I think that is a gross understatement, it wuz garbage 30 years ago, and has steadily declined.

Perhaps they were trying to emphasise their need to fill the position. ;-)

It means, like every other institution in Canada paid from the public trough, that they needed a bilingual imperative in their staffing department, and like most institutions paid from the public trough, that individual's first language would be French. No worse, I suppose, than all of the british ex-pats over 'ere who think tinfoil hats are made from "aluminium"

On a lighter note, CH from Hamilton had a banner headline on a waste mgmt story last night that proclaimed in about 3" letters on the screen that it was about "Garbige"

I'm with MikeM, they're pointing out how desperate the need really is.

This all from the same type of dolts that are at the U of R and promoting "Islam The Peaseful Religion"

Since no one else has mentioned it yet, I should like to point out that the first two words of the body of the exhibit before the court are Engage with. Engage with? One doesn't engage with, one engages. One would think that a writer would know better than to introduce gratuitous prepositions.

And then we have: "The University Advancement, Communications Office, is seeking [...]". In order for this to be valid English, one should be able to delete the "Communication Office" subordinate clause and still have a valid grammatical form.

Yet in this case, we would have: "The University Advancement [] is seeking [...]".

It doesn't parse.