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'I had someone list their typing speed at 270 WPM': Job candidate claims they can type faster than the world record holder, doubles down when recruiter calls them out

If you're going to lie to a job recruiter , you should probably pick a skill that's hard to prove you're lying about. You could fib about your previous role, maybe fudging what you actually did a little bit. Or maybe you want to impress the recruiter, so you tell them you have more experience in your career field than you actually do. The point is, there are a lot of things you can easily lie about, but you'd better be super careful what that is, because once you're found out, you'll lose all c…
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'I gave this dumpster fire the professional treatment': Voice-over artist reads entire badly-edited book for client, book still gets approved for release

'I gave this dumpster fire the professional treatment': Voice-over artist reads entire badly-edited book for client, book still gets approved for release

This voice-over artist is clearly a professional. When they noticed typos in a book they were going to read aloud for a client, they fixed the typos for him. Sounds simple, right? That was a kind thing for u/pumaFGT to do, actually. They were taking on more work than they needed to for no extra charge. Too bad their client was annoyed at the way the book turned out… Up next, these people revealed the baffling reasons they got in trouble, like one person who shared that, “In driver's education I…
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Update: 'The launch is next week': Entitled client messages web designer 50 times, website gets filled with typos and inaccuracies

Update: 'The launch is next week': Entitled client messages web designer 50 times, website gets filled with typos and inaccuracies

It takes a thick skin to be your own boss, especially when you're working with the craziest clients imaginable. U/boobook-boobook knows that all too well after their run-in with a client who knew exactly what she wanted, no changes allowed. While we're on the subject of hilarious misspellings and misunderstandings, check out these very funny ones, like one person who tried to sound out “grand scheme” and instead wrote, “It is a very small issue in the gran stephen things.”
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'Just run the ad exactly as I wrote it': Local newspaper agrees to run man's advertisement as-is, costs the customer a job

'Just run the ad exactly as I wrote it': Local newspaper agrees to run man's advertisement as-is, costs the customer a job

One newspaper editor shared a very funny story that occurred at their workplace. It's one of those times where someone wanted to procure a service… but then he declared that he knew how to be a better copyeditor than the literal editors at the paper. This kind of schadenfreude is so satisfying to witness, especially in a career like writing, which is often underappreciated. Lots of people think that writing is easy or fast, and that makes them think anyone can do it. Not everyone can write well…
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Watching a couple on what appears to be a terrible first coffee date at the table next to me. Dude is every precious self-involved writer.

Greatest Hits: Writer tweets about extra cringey coffee shop date she's overhearing in real time

One writer got to tell an incredible story to the world in real time as she witnessed a first date slowly turn sour.
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Delusional writer who believes they've written a bestseller vampire novel won't pay for editing

Delusional Writer Wants "The Next Twilight" Edited For Free

"Excuse me, Count Dracula is spelled with an O."
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Writer of men in black told not to mansplain the story he wrote | tweet by ed solomon At cafe where l'm writing people next were disagreeing about origins Men Black said If like could clear up one responded sorry do not need an old white male's mansplanation So apologized and

Writer of Men In Black Told Not To Mansplain Men In Black, Has Happy Ending

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Writer Tweets Hilarious "Bot Written" Queer Eye Script

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28 Hilariously Priceless Antiques Roadshow Re-Captions

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Struggling Writer Shoots Himself in the Foot, and Then It Gets Worse

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Wisdom From Rabindranath Tagore

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English 101: If Your Style Works, Stick to It

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What Teacher Wouldn't Want to Hear This?

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