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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Bureaucratic Nonsense
I'm in the middle of a training session right now. It's a new database to handle letters to the Department of Agriculture from Senators, Presidents, and other inflated egos. No big deal.
We're using example letters: just old letters our instructor pulled out of a file somewhere. One of the students from another staff was making jokes about her letter: it was terribly written. 'Regarding' where it should read 'because.'
And I just thought it was pretty damn cool to be in a room that's 95% women and more than half black—two of the traditionally least educated groups of people in America—and see everyone making fun of people with poor grammar skills. Feeling good.
We're using example letters: just old letters our instructor pulled out of a file somewhere. One of the students from another staff was making jokes about her letter: it was terribly written. 'Regarding' where it should read 'because.'
And I just thought it was pretty damn cool to be in a room that's 95% women and more than half black—two of the traditionally least educated groups of people in America—and see everyone making fun of people with poor grammar skills. Feeling good.
If I am not mistaken, women are now more educated than men, as measured by high school completion rates and college degrees. - Not a Guarantee in UT
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