Saturday, October 20, 2018

To the Author of “Thx for the IView! I Wud ❤ to Work 4 U!! ;)”

  I’m in complete agreement with this article. Children in this day and age are now becoming too informal, especially in situations where formality is a highly important aspect, such as interviews for new jobs. The sheer magnitude of this outrageous issue has not had enough criticism to really bring it into the light. Although, the quote “job hunters are just too casual when it comes to communicating about career opportunities in cyberspace and on mobile devices.” Truly summarizes how utterly ridiculous this issue truly is! I myself was a victim of such where I was forced to perform a degrading interview when I was asked to replace my college that day. I was interviewing a newly graduated college student into the company and what a disgrace she was! In her email to me, she began talking about how her day was, saying ridiculous words like “and, like,” as well as “OMG”. And afterwards she texted me, yes, texted me “thx for the iview, really worth it!” with a smiling emoji after it! I was outraged!
  I have to note that the article “Thx for the IView! I Wud ❤ to Work 4 U!! ;)” excels at sharing this underrated issue with the world. Even I had not known that these young job hunters could try to befriend someone on social media sites, alike the story in the article which states that “a candidate for an assistant account-executive job recently sent a “friend” invite to Ms. Friedman Tush on her personal Facebook page following an interview.” I am shocked that this job hunter had even thought of befriending his interviewer! 
  Even so, I must comment on the ‘softness’ of this article. Yes, it does open the door to this issue and how our language of English has slowly become more ‘dumbed down’ due to these new generations’ simplistic, rude and intrusive ideas. But, it does not put the foot down firmly enough to truly take a stance on this being an issue. It seems as though the author has not fully expressed the worrying situation we are facing with the loss of our sense of formality and instead seems to simply spread word of the ‘issue’ as not an issue itself, but as a warning to the new generations. I find this is not enough to be able to sway the already-infected populace of new and informal job hunters. To truly leave a mark, the author must take a strong stand against this issue and must fight to persuade others to try to save our once beautiful language. Something alike “We must fight this!” or “The loss of our language will be inevitable if we don’t stand now!”

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