People with degrees that are a bit thick really

Just offererd to proof read a lad at work’s college assignment. He has a degree in automotive design, so should be pretty competent, I thought.

I thought wrong. I’m no English Professor but fuck me it looked like it was written by a child. Spelling, punctuation and grammar all over the shop. Different spellings of the same word (raiser/razor). Clunky sentence structure. I spent about 2 hours re-doing it for him.

What are they teaching kids these days when you can get a degree with a complete lack of English skills?
Friend of mine from school got 9 As at GCSE, 3 As at A-Level and a 1st Class Degree in Biology. She is thick as mince. Used to think it was rude not to sleep with a guy if he bought her a drink :lol:
 


Different Adam mate. Can't stop Paul (ex Travis Perkins) from going on about your exemplary word play and syntax. Literally never shuts up.
Yes I have left a lasting impression on him ,"Cher "being a personal favourite of his.
 
Just offererd to proof read a lad at work’s college assignment. He has a degree in automotive design, so should be pretty competent, I thought.

I thought wrong. I’m no English Professor but fuck me it looked like it was written by a child. Spelling, punctuation and grammar all over the shop. Different spellings of the same word (raiser/razor). Clunky sentence structure. I spent about 2 hours re-doing it for him.

What are they teaching kids these days when you can get a degree with a complete lack of English skills?

That's probably how he got his degree, people re-writing stuff for him. Tough love, don't offer, let him fail.
 
I live and work in Canada and work with 2 colleagues (Brazilian & Chinese), both of whom have PhD's from reputable Canadian Universities. As the quality of english usage is so shocking, I have to proof read everything. As a "Brit", I am regarded as the expert on English communication. I failed English 'O' level 4 times before passing :rolleyes:
 
Maybe I’m being a bit critical as I write technical reports for a living and i know the kind of phrases that are used. But when you read things like “ Three samples was tested and here is what I saw” :lol:
I’d have been slaughtered for that in the juniors.

He also says “if I’m being brutally honest” at least once in every phone conversation. Which gets right on my tits.
You have to fight fire with fire.

Every single time he says that, without fail, you have to respond with “you f***ing liar!”

I have an auntie who prefixes every sentence with “I was going to say ...” to which I always jump in and say “you just did”.
 
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I've read some funny things written by colleagues over the years.

Restbite was a good one that I saw written loads by one lass instead of respite.

Best one ever was someone whinging on the company online feedback forum that had just been set up. She said that she felt like she had been made the escape goat :lol:
 
Just offererd to proof read a lad at work’s college assignment. He has a degree in automotive design, so should be pretty competent, I thought.

I thought wrong. I’m no English Professor but fuck me it looked like it was written by a child. Spelling, punctuation and grammar all over the shop. Different spellings of the same word (raiser/razor). Clunky sentence structure. I spent about 2 hours re-doing it for him.

What are they teaching kids these days when you can get a degree with a complete lack of English skills?
So his degree is in automotive design and not English yet you're complaining about the latter and expecting more because of the former. Err ok.
 
So his degree is in automotive design and not English yet you're complaining about the latter and expecting more because of the former. Err ok.
My degree wasn’t in English, nor were my A levels. I just expect someone who’s been in the education system for 17 years to maybe have learned some basic grammar from all those years of reading text books. I can understand people who pissed about at school and left not knowing much, but 5 more years of education off their own bat and still not knowing the basics?
 
A degree in how to win the lottery would be nice.

Funny you should say that because I read a story the other day about a statistics professor who had come up with a way of estimating which stores would be most likely to stock winning scratchcards and so she lumped all her money on buying them there.
 
Funny you should say that because I read a story the other day about a statistics professor who had come up with a way of estimating which stores would be most likely to stock winning scratchcards and so she lumped all her money on buying them there.

What was the outcome?
 

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