Jose Carillo's English Forum
General Category => Lounge => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on November 10, 2009, 10:32:39 PM
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I'd like to share with Forum members a letter sent over to me by a friend, the award-winning writer Ed Maranan:
LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
1 Trevor Adams, my assistant programmer, can always be found
2 hard at work in his cubicle. Trevor works independently, without
3 wasting company time talking to colleagues. Trevor never
4 thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and he always
5 finishes given assignments on time. Often he takes extended
6 measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping coffee
7 breaks. Trevor is that very rare individual who has absolutely no
8 vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and has a profound
9 knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Trevor can be
10 classed as a high-caliber employee, the type that cannot be
11 dispensed with. Consequently, I truly recommend that Trevor be
12 promoted to upper-level management, and a proposal will be
13 executed as soon as possible, to give him the justice he deserves.
Addendum:
The idiot was standing over my shoulder while I wrote this report.
Kindly re-read only the odd numbered lines.
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Nice!! I wonder if our department head would give the same letter of recommendation ;D
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I don't know...but have letters of recommendation become informal? The idioms used create an aura of friendly relationships (especially to recommender and prospective employer). If the recommender would send it to a manager he has no close relationship with, he'd better not use those specific instances (during coffee breaks, etc.) to illustrate how reliable the employee is. A handwritten informal note like this would suffice though, between "compadres".
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It's a silly joke. The writer of the recommendation would have taken out the even lines when Trevor behind him had finally left.
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waaaaah! that's a good joke...you caught us there! that is really a good but silly correspondence between "employers" making fun of their employees ;D ;D! thanks! i'll copy that :D.