This morning I check my e-mail to find an e-mail from someone I have never met. At first I thought it was spam and then after reviewing it several times, I decided to respond. I have copied and pasted below the entire e-mail conversation as I would LOVE to get other’s opinion about what this mystery person said/wrote to me. Was she right or just being rude?
claudia marks wrote:
I was interested in hiring you and read your web site. I was appalled when I came to the following paragraph in the Dishonesty section. How a writer who professes such credentials could allow something this sloppy is beyond me.
I will be taking legal action against this client. What have I learned? No matter how long you have been in business, their are always dishonest people who are always trying to screw you over and get something for free.
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:29:05 -0700
From:
To: claudiamarks921@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: your web site
Where is this written on my Website? Please show me as I have checked and this is not on my site.
Thank you,
Lisa
claudia marks wrote: It’s on the side bar entitled Dishonesty, where you go into detail about being ripped off by a company …
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:58:23 -0700
From: Lisa@
To: claudiamarks921@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: your web site
I found it! It was under a blog of mine. OK I fixed the word. Thank you for pointing the mistake out. When I wrote this entry, I was very angry and should have gone back to review it once I cooled off to check my spelling.
I just returned from the east coast where I had to attend my grandmother’s funeral and sit Shiva. Receiving your email this morning, after being away was not the most pleasant thing. I am sorry that this incident has made you decide not to hire PW for your project.
Good luck,
Lisa Weinberger
PearlyWrites, LLC
602-288-8992
Well, I’m very sorry about your grandmother’s death, but you just displayed further your lack of professionalism saying how angry you were in one instance, then having to whine about getting my email and the reasons. Obviously, there is more at issue than a mistake you didn’t catch. Don’t write me again.
So with the above e-mail, was I wrong and unprofessional? This Claudia Marks woman who claims I was unprofessional, not once did she address me by my name or left a signature. She misspelled the words Website and e-mail and was just plain nasty. To me a misspelling of “there” and ‘their” on a WORDPRESS blog is nothing when an e-mail is written and sent this way.
What do you think?
Thank god you didn’t work for her. Someone that is concerned about one typo (whether it’s wrong or not), are never going to be someone you want to work with closely.
ANNOYING.
Spelling errors aren’t great to have in a professional project. However, you weren’t really typing up a professional document. It was a blog post and unfortunately grammatical errors happen to every writer.
And for those who don’t write, then they would have no way of knowing that a writer hates it when they don’t catch a spelling mistake. I agree with Jess, I would consider myself lucky that you didn’t take her own as a client. I think I would also avoid any further communication with her. Her negativity will only distract you from your work. How frustrating though. kim
Yes, it is very upsetting to have grammatical mistakes as a writer in copy. BUT like you said, it was written in a blog and not a professional document though I was still not happy it happened. This is just one example of e-mails I receive from “mystery people” on a monthly basis and felt like sharing with others.
When did people become rude? Oh wait, I know, when they learned they can hide behind their computer screens and never actually speak to the person they are attacking.
Actually it is surprising how rude people can be even when they are facing someone and not hiding behind their computer screens.
I agree that the typo was minor and definitely not cause for this email exchange. However, their/there/they’re typos are one of my pet peeves, and perhaps I would have made a similar decision to the ‘mystery psycho.’ A professional writer’s blog should be more polished than any other blogger’s blog, although no blog is error-free. Even if I had made the same decision as ‘mystery psycho,’ I would definitely NOT have acted in the same way. Some people take ‘the buyer is always right’ to ridiculously inhuman levels.
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