Letter Writing Style

[livingdeb]

Whoever trained the student who wrote me a letter today to start and end it with complimentary stuff should also have mentioned that the middle counts, too. When you lie repeatedly in the middle and also dis the person's entire job, you might not be making the impression you hope.

(My whole job is about helping students with "some obscure requirements.")

The letter made me angry and bizarrely childish. I kept wanting to say things like "If our degree requirements are too obscure for you, then just don't do them. I'm sure you're above needing a degree." Or "Why don't you just go back to the school you transferred in from?" Very helpful.

Comments

[texpenguin.livejournal.com]

Really inspires you to help them out, right?

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[p-j-cleary.livejournal.com]

Hilarious. It's interesting to me how much the college set just KNOWS they're right about everything. My interns were like that once in awhile, until I pointed out that it probably wasn't winning them any friends in the company.

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Well, certain things obviously should be true. Which stupidly aren't. Oh well. Discovering these things sucks at every age.

Fortunately, virtually all of the students I work with are perfectly reasonable or above and beyond the call of reasonableness.