Today a coworker showed me an email she got from a reviewer
waiting for his payment. Now you and I know how slowly the wheels of bureaucracy
turn, and it takes weeks for checks to be generated around here. Apparently
this guy did not like that answer, and he was bombarding my coworker with
emails that got continuously stranger. This one just said something about how
he was wondering where “my who’re” was. Now if that’s a typo, it’s sure a weird
one. Who’re literally means “who are,” but if you take the apostrophe out, we
all know what it means. My coworker wasn’t sure if this were an insult aimed at
her, considering her gender and the reviewer’s ire, but she gave him the
benefit of the doubt that it was just a really random typo until talking to
another coworker. He said this reviewer is, well, rude. And considering that he
was using it as a noun in the sentence, it seems highly unlikely that he meant
the contraction. It seems on the surface like he was asking about his check,
but what word for check or payment would be anything like who’re?
Famous Hat
2 comments:
I am going to say a victim of autocorrect. Did she reply and ask exactly what he meant
No, she didn't want to make him more upset.
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