Words Of Wonder

As in wondering, what are you thinking? And, have the wolves who raised you disowned your disreputable self?

I should be getting over the astonishment over people who can't seem to get the simple things right. Not that I'm a stickler for the sake of nit-picking. But, making the seemingly little errors can shake others' confidence in you.

Your customers, your bosses, your colleagues - all will fail to trust your reliability and capability if you can't get the unimportant, but visible and obvious things right. So, we have those to whom quality is important, and they shop on-line at LL Beam, as if the family is somehow also involved in the spirits trade through its Kentucky branch.

Or, the California vacationers who cannot pass up the delights of a day at Knock's Berry Farm. They probably did not arrive in a Marcedes, which is a vehicle favored by their prosperous cousins. There are still people with Detroit roots whose families worked at Ford's, as if it were still Henry's workshop, and not a multi-bazillion dollar global behemoth with massive factories around the planet.

Other branches of the family include those who say "atypical" when they mean typical or "irrespective" when they don't know what they mean.

You may not think so, but these mis-uses are career-limiting. Get 'em right, and right now. btw, for the connoisseurs of fine whiskies, Jack's surname is Daniel, not the possessive Daniel's.