Someone needs to tell the idiots of LinkedIn that being "apart of a company" is very different from being "a part of a company."
@Alice
"Apart of a company," passes autocorrect, Alice, so it MUST be an acceptable usage.
I'm sure as time goes on that the torment nexus will have many more similar grammatical updates for us.
I, for one, salute your intention to hold the line against language erosion, in any case..
@Alice THIS. And not just on LinkedIn. 😫😫😫😵💫
It's always in some bragging LinkedIn post about how they accepted a new position and are "excited to be apart of [CompanyName]."
If I were the hiring manager and saw that, I'd ask them to hand back the offer letter.
@Alice When I was a grad student, I once was nearly ran into by an undergrad riding a bike while holding his phone to his head and talking across the quad with someone on his right. I wanted to pull him off and make him write an apology letter to the admissions office.
@Alice I see that alot
@Alice compared to all this, Cisco Fatty did nothing wrong
Ooh. I forgot. Half of the time, they also say that they "excepted" a new position.
I know I’m being kind of bratty, but this is specifically a website about employment and I don’t want to think that the person I just hired has the potential to send correspondence with similar mistakes while acting as a representative of my company.
@Alice Looks like you won't be making an acception in this case.
If they're exceptional, what else would they be doing to their new position? 🤪
@Alice I don't think that's bratty. We generally accept a certain number of typos in social media or email. But that's not a typo, that's just the wrong word!
@Alice The only people using LinkedIn properly are the ones posting about how they save their employer money on travel expenses by cooking chicken breasts in hotel coffee pots.
@Alice can''t see why your so effected by this.
@stefan_hessbrueggen @Alice I know this is all a joke, but "effected" has me literally screaming in my home office write now.
@Alice Maybe they are just very happy to wave goodbye to their last employer [CompanyName] 😁
If I were ever be able to do this I would seriously think about something along the lines of "see you in hell motherf*ckers"
