So, how do you say 'you suck' without upsetting people?

[graculus]

Today's work-related question: is there a relatively non-contentious way of saying "your standard of written English is nothing like good enough for what you're being asked to do"? ;)

In other news, today I got paid for playing with Powerpoint all afternoon. I've been 'volunteered' to help with some training next month and as a result I've been writing training material and translating some of the stuff I've already written into Powerpoint slides. The offer was there to send the relevant information to our inhouse Training department and have them do it, but if they're all anything like A. who is supposed to be coordinating the training in question and who is about as much use as a chocolate teapot, I figured I would rather do it myself.

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[graculus.livejournal.com]

That's really hard when the person in question is someone where I find myself already close to losing my temper with her because she doesn't always understand what I'm saying till I've explained it a couple of times in different ways. *sigh*

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

Ack! Maybe you can't explain it to her? You just have to tell her how to fix it without explanation?

My boss does the marketing ads. These days, I proofread everything he does. That all started when I was in his office looking over his shoulder when he was putting text in a copy. I told him, "That's spelled wrong, need a comma there, you've got two spaces there, that needs to be capitalized, that doesnt' need to be capitalized," all in a very conversational way. Then he'd pretend that he was angry but make the changes anyway. :)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

And she would happily let me do it, as well as wanting me to type everything for her and indeed make decisions about her work, as well as wanting me to take her side in her ongoing dispute with her (apparently somewhat brainless) manager. There are serious limits to what I'm prepared to do... ;)