Supervisor emails

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"--- R.A.Heinlein

To all officers,

        As discussed on our meet in August we will be beginning our required training modules this month. The training packets are located in the employee entrance along with the answer sheets. Many of you have already completed this training module but in light of resent events everyone is required to complete this module and turn in the answer sheets into my office before Friday 12/13/2013. We will be doing at least one module a month.

Subject: ACTIVER ALARM ON PANEL
 Hello to all,
 Today around 2000 there was an active alarm coming from zone: 406 , employee call stating that the alarm was not an actual alarm they accidently hit the emotion sensor all findings has been approved as false, if we were to get another alarm by all means please treat it as REAL we must as always act on every alarm PLEASE make all contact until you get further notice.
Subject: FW: Security Training
 To all,
Please remember to do your training Molecule and return it in to Capt by due date listed below if you have any questions are concerns please see are let Capt, myself are Sgt. Smalls.

 

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. -Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-100)

Web address change

The Cranky Yankee Proofreading Service is now at http://crankyyankeeweb.com/proofreader.html. I hadn't logged into crankyyankee.biz for long enough that my webhost deactivated my account, and now I'm having trouble getting into that domain to edit it. Since I have access to the other domain, the proofreading service has been moved.
Here's my spellcheck poem for your entertainment:
I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes eye dew knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight fore it too say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It tells mi strait aweigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee four two long
And eye can put the era rite.
Its rarely ever wrong.

I've sent this massage threw it,
And I'm shore your pleased two no,
Its letter prefect in every weigh.
Mi checker tolled mi sew!

And you think spellcheck is all you need?

Stupid Politicians

The woman who was my representative in Congress before I moved to my present residence has been characterized as the stupidest woman in Congress. During a hurricane last year she demanded that the local government provide sandbags to protect her home. A current opponent, playing on this incident, had his supporters deliver sandbags to her home. Her reply, repeated on the local radio stations, was one double negative after another. "It's not no game." "Don't bring no trash . . . " She may think that the second negative reinforces or emphasizes the first, but it really cancels it out.

I'm tempted to send her a letter saying how grateful I am that I was able to move out of her district. Those recordings really make her sound like an uneducated idiot. She's listed as the top earmarker in this area, bringing "federal funds" to her district, but I'm still praying somebody will defeat her.

"You and me" or "You and I"

A lot of people use one or the other ALL the time, either not knowing which is right or not caring. Determining which to use is really very easy. If you would say "I" or "we", use you and I; if "me" or "us" sounds right, use you and me.
Examples: When you and I went fishing, did you have to forget the bait?
That boat was just made for you and me!
You and I tried to catch something for dinner, but they just weren't biting for you and me.

"Me" or "Myself"?

I keep hearing people use "myself" incorrectly. i.e "Send it to Tom or myself" Well, you could send it to me, but I'm the only one who can send it to myself. I'm sure you can find other examples every day on radio or TV. Keep your ears open--if I get enough samples, I'll add another post and give you credit for submitting them.

Avoid writing badly

Good Article: The Essence of Bad Writing! is a great article. He's also offering a writing course on a free CD. Get that link in the article.