Business No Write E-mail Good

It is a dirty little secret of corporate America that e-mail has revealed what overworked secretaries have known for generations - normal business people can't write a coherent sentence. Time was, every manager had a secretary assigned specifically to go over their erroneous missives and translate them into some semblance of English. But CNET Reports that in corporate e-mail, people are writing their own memos and thus exposing their ignorance of the Queen's language. Consider this choice example:

I updated the Status report for the four discrepancies Lennie forward us via e-mail (they in Barry file).. to make sure my logic was correct It seems we provide Murray with incorrect information ... However after verifying controls on JBL - JBL has the indicator as B ???? - I wanted to make sure with the recent changes - I processed today - before Murray make the changes again on the mainframe to 'C'.

My fellow BLoggers may not have experience this as much, working with small businesses and in the university world. But in the insurance and banking companies I have worked at, poor grammar, spelling, and use of instant-messaging shortcuts is rampant. And I can tell you, nothing makes a CEO more upset than recieving an e-mail from a $100/hour consulant just hired, where the word "you" is always spelled "u" and punctuation is non-existant.