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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Taking a second look at this, I realize that your intention was to provoke and inflame rather than discuss. In which culture do people adjust holes in hoses? When I said "someone who crawls under an RV and adjusts the breaks," there was no misunderstanding on your part, nor any confusion. You understood perfectly.
On which planet would this be reasonable. Have you ever hired a mechanic to adjust holes in hoses? Has anyone, anywhere at any time hired a mechanic to crawl under a car and adjust holes that shouldn't be there?
No... your real intentions are showing. 
Stitchawl |
Which mistake should we assume the mechanic made. Just spelling, or in light of the other errors you imply, misuse of the word "adjust" when he meant "repair."
If you do not need or want your mechanic to have any communication skills (a dumb stand since presumably you want him to understand instructions and work orders) that's fine. Don't even ask for a resume. Have the applicants come by for a practical tech test rather than submitting a resume. Once you decide to submit a resume, anyone with a brain in their head should have the sense to make sure it looks professional, or I would not trust that person with any work of consequence, especially involving customer safety. What else is not important to them? Buying quality parts? Following instructions? Treating customers well?
YOU do not seem to care about grammar and don't think it should carry much weight, but it is the height of hubris to conclude from that that it is or should be unimportant to others. It wouldn't even matter if everyone else was WRONG to make judgements of work ethic, respect, attention to detail, etc from bad grammar. Even if they were wrong (which I don't think they are a lot of the time) the mere fact that they DO should have long ago taught you that it IS important, and it would be a failing as a teacher to not impart THAT lesson. It's wrong to mug people, but it's stupidly dangerous to tell people "mugging is wrong, so go ahead an wave your cash around in dark alleys....."
When a mechanic shows up for an interview, I don't care that his job keeps him under a greasy car, he should show up in a relatively clean set of clothes with his teeth brushed (if he has any). Same with presenting any written representation of yourself.