raineoftears
Amazing that people who run companies these days are so clearly
a) not involved in their companies
This is the part that really gets to me. You should take pride in your work. How much pride can you take it in if you don't even bother to take the time to double check it?
This is a bit of a social thing. There's an emphasis now on being self-employed and starting your own business. The last decade has seen a whole range of government and bank programs to help people. Gone are the days when they would have to hunt for investors and be eloquent enough to pitch their ideas in a convincing way. Now, all it takes is filling out a few papers (to get started - obviously it takes a lot more than that to actually keep the business afloat). This is like opening the flood gates on new businesses. The result is that instead of business owners being owned by the "very best" (or those with the "very best" connections), they can be owned by a more accurate cross-section of society - so both the educated and non-educated.
There's also a certain prestige in being self-employed. Society is looking at self-employment as superior to employment in a company. For this reason, a lot of kids are graduating from High School (where they may have done work placement training), learning a trade skill, and starting businesses right away without necessarily gaining the experience needed to run a business first. The result is that many lack the professionalism to really check their work. This isn't to say that in the "good ol' days" business were competent.
Merely that their investments in their businesses would have been much higher. Making a mistake like that mispelling that could cost a good deal of money wouldn't just mean "oh, I guess I have to go back to working with my old employer for a bit." Rather, it would mean the laying off of many employees and a severe drop in standard of living and position in society. So on the visible surface, at least, people checked their work more thoroughly.
And, of course, there's the simply fall of the education system. Kids today know something like half the words the same age group knew in the '50s. Kids aren't being taught grammar. Teachers are encouraged to care more about kids' self-esteems than about their actual academic success - prompting them to give undeserved grades and discouraging them from taking the time to actually help kids catch up. Telling them that they need to improve their academic performance might make them "feel bad," so we can't do that.
To hell in a handbasket...
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