Who the fuck taught people how to pen business emails? Holy Christ on a cracker! Absolutely nothing creams my corn more than having to actively translate what these professional suits are typing to me. I just received an email that was 5 paragraphs that essentially boiled down to, hey, I really liked your report you sent last Monday. Can we schedule a Zoom call tomorrow? Yes or no? I am so tired of professional communications. I am frankly exhausted with having to translate professional sludge. Why in the healthiest of hell is it OK, even desirable, that our society likes this kind of mind nummingcommunication? Everybody calls it professional but I just call it a gigantic fucking headache. And who the hell came up with professionalism anyhow? I’m really starting to hate the concept of professionalism and professional writing styles. No wonder everyone has meetings. No one can write. No one can string together a competent business sentence without 90,000 corporate qualifiers. You can have perfect grammar and perfect spelling and in fact be the worst writer. Can we change what it means to write professionally? Because this is a level of hell that I never noticed prior to getting away from corporate offices. #Writing #Business
@WeirdWriter
Sometimes a word can make me feel my age, and today's trigger is the descriptive word: professional. Back in my younger days, officious writing or wording was a clear indicator of a non-professional manner. Professionals were identified through clearly worded precis writing. You probably know as well as I do that passing a U.S. federal law did not visibly improve government communications!
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/946
H.R.946 - 111th Congress (2009-2010): Plain Writing Act of 2010

Summary of H.R.946 - 111th Congress (2009-2010): Plain Writing Act of 2010

If I may join the grump —

even older than any of us, “professional “ meant that the job was too subtle for non-practitioners to judge but too important to not be overseen. So professionals had to mutually uphold the standards and morals of each calling. They swore (professed) their duty.

This was a really powerful and admirable thing!

@MossyQuartz @WeirdWriter

though it has also been suborned over and over. I can think of more books on how professionalism got turned into a power grab than the reverse.

The original problem, too necessary too subtle, still holds.

@MossyQuartz @WeirdWriter