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> Share! I'd like to see some of them to see if
> they're as whacked as some I've had to suffer. :-)
I actually used to keep a "Wall of Shame" that had examples of poor writing.
"Poor writing" could include bad grammer, mis-spellings that changed the
meaning of the memo/doc, poor logic, rudeness, etc. There were other memos
that, although well written, were placed on the wall simply because I
couldn't believe what we actually had to communicate to people.
For example, (when I worked for a different company) there was a memo from
the Help Desk to the Sales Force telling them, when they were entering
customers' phone numbers, to NOT use '911' as a generic area code because it
would dial the police. I had another document on the wall that told people
how to create a new document in Word - but the doc itself was (very poorly)
written with Excel.
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