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He was the best but…
he lost on points
I have a deep aversion to box tickers and the harm they cause.
Some years ago, my wife worked for a local authority that deals in adult education. While she was there, a vacancy arose for a junior position in the admin department, and she was part of the interviewing team.
Although the team could forward their opinions and recommend people, the powers that be had the final say, although not one of them bothered to attend the interviews.
One young man who applied for the job made a very good impression on the team, and they all felt he would be ideal for the position.
However, the people higher up declined to offer him the job. They operated on a points system and the reason he was declined was as follows.
The young man filled out his application online and wrote his C.V. in text speak. This was enough for him to be overlooked.
For those of you who do not text, M8 means mate, 4u replaces for you, and so on.
I have noticed in some of our national magazines that highly respected feature writers have been slipping the odd text phrase in their columns, FYI for your information, being the biggest culprit.
