iamacyborg

For your lack of talent .. i merely refer to the photos you choose to show off, presumably as your best work, on your website. For you to interject and 1) presume i mean all photographers who work for us and 2) discuss a completely different topic i.e. their talent and nightlife photography, you would be wrong and a fool for suggesting I could think such things. On top of this … you are not even one of our photographers.

The photographers we recruit are screened, we ask for the basics, a show of some skill and a sign of promise. The majority of photographers are good SLR users and improve as they progress which is only natural and all we ask. Spellcheck … we need not go over that again, besides I am sure incorrect grammar does not appear on those anyway? (I have actually just checked and my Spellcheck has been on all this time so no it doesn’t and the Spellcheck debate can just go straight out the window now then).

There is nothing incoherent about my emails, poorly spelt yes, at times and by pure accident.

I hope you aren’t pursuing a business in anything related to art because you have a lot to learn about people (what you think is acceptable to say in emails surely must bare a relation to your understanding of people/society, something essential to the arts) and all art is interrelated so if you think that the photography on your website is good (which you obviously), it shows what all types of work you execute must be like … poor and with no cultural astuteness.

If you were happy in your life you would feel no need to be so rude to me therefore I can only presume you are miserable and you’re life is very unfulfilled. You are a horrible person. You’re remark about grammar/private school … yes my parents were too poor to put me through private school, quite poor in fact … what does this have anything to do with anything? My school was really good. Comprehensive schools are good too. Grammar school is a better education than comprehensive, I studied to get into school, no-one paid someone to let me in a school. I guess you went to a private school then considering your attitude towards grammar and comprehensive and the working class.
And no, no-one likes a toff.

My perception of you:

- live off your parents
- toff
- sham friends
- looks down on those less fortunate
- are generally prejudice
- (and therefore probably …) racist
- only ever learnt English because you went to a private school, not because you yourself thought it would be a good idea to have an education yourself and pay attention in school.
- never really had any talent at anything other than something like football or maybe the clarinet
- think Topman and River Island are dead cool and you wear ‘beads’ from one of them
- also keen on Gant, Ralph Lauren and get off your face on Lacoste
- own a gilet
- a sleaze towards women and they know this (and not a funny sleaze, a dirty old man kind of sleaze)
- a very very boring person with a boring family and equally boring friends

… I could think of more.

Informality is the key to life and spelling mistakes show I’m human and just like everyone else. People find that charming if anything, not offensive or unprofessional. They like to know you are like them. You are not like them, you’re an idiot.

You never replied to my question as to why you didn’t inform me sooner that you didn’t ‘work’ for us any longer instead of leaving it 6 months and then being rude in email to me … i shall therefore guess that you never did and you do actually think it is acceptable to just attack me. This makes you a very shit person. If you’re intent was to tell me about a couple of errors, you could have done this politely and i would have responded with thanks.

I literally cannot see why you would ever think it is acceptable to behave towards me the way you have done. I am dumbfounded and hate to think there are people like you around.

I can’t think of anything else to say. I am exhausted thinking how mental you are.
Jeeeez.

Gus

But I was a photographer, picked because of those photographs you seem to think are shit.

Assumptions are wonderful, aren’t they Gus, I like how you’ve run off with the toff thing, bearing in mind that I’m not actually a toff, it’s rather amusing. But it’s nice of you to be screaming your inadequacies out to people that don’t really care.

In the professional world, people do not find spelling errors charming, Gus. Maybe you should speak to someone that works seriously with clients and find out what they think about it? I know someone that works within the finance department of a large media agency, who’s consistently disgusted by the lack of professionalism that her junior shows by spelling things wrong in emails to her clients. Of course, one can’t compare a serious job like that to your own.

I could think of plenty of insults that don’t apply to you, however I choose to mention the ones that clearly do apply, which appears to be working.

By the way Gus, your original reply mentioned you not having the time to spell check your emails before you send them out, you’ve clearly demonstrated how little time you have by replying to me not once, but three times. I wonder if your employers know how bad of a liar you are?

Jacques
PS, you spelt your as “you’re” again. You really should work on that one.

It’s getting a bit dull now.

I cannot actually believe you, you’re off your head.

If you must know, I got an A for GCSE English Literature and an A for GCSE English Language, at a Grammar school. And I am studying a Masters degree at the moment. I am no cretin.

Misspelling annoys me, but only when it is done by someone that you know is an idiot or out of laziness or in something like an ad campaign where it truly matters. The pure nature of emailing is quick correspondence, mistakes happen, whether typos or grammatical errors due to a lapse of concentration. If I were to handwrite a letter or even type out a letter it would be carefully considered. The crux of my weekly newsletter is to provide punctual and accurate event information, whether my spelling is correct or not is way down the list. I don’t go over my weekly newsletters looking for these mistakes as it is not vital, I try to make the task as quick and painless as possible, whilst providing the best information where it counts. I have to do many, many emails a day, I am sure most people in a similar position to me make the same errors due to a busy workload. These kind of errors do not normally insult people or receive criticism as society generally understands that mistakes happen, in non essential areas, to busy people. I fail to see how idiocy comes into it at all and I cannot believe you have the audacity to say that.

My guess is that you have never done a hard day’s work in your life otherwise you would have some sympathy. At risk of sounding like a chav … you don’t know me. It is not polite nor proper to berate someone for misspelling and using incorrect grammar at all, let alone when they have done nothing to harm you and you do not know the circumstance surrounding their lingual error. You cannot say I am an idiot for this.

It is as plain as day that you do not know a lot about the society in which you inhabit and you seem to put yourself above everyone else. You’re attitude stinks, God-knows why you were ever hired in the first place. You’re photos on your website as well, deplorable. You cliché your tits off when you take photos don’t you. A spider weaving a web, deep man. Also, taking photos of existing art isn’t good i.e. the blue shards that were an installation recently in London somewhere. Why would you supposedly show these off on a website? You’re talentless.

You’re acting like a toff. No-one likes a toff. Sort it out.

Gus

p.s. “There’s a different between”, sorry, what? A mistake … from you?

So, misspelling’s annoy you, but you’re more than happy, as the public face of SoonNight, who’s job involves managing the pro bono photographers, those you call “talentless hacks” (let’s face it, the vast majority of photographers that “work” for SoonNight are at my level or worse), to write incoherent, badly spelt emails, rather than spend the minute extra it takes to spell check them? Well, that’s very nice of you. I can see why you were hired when Angel left.

Your guess would be wrong, but let’s leave it at that, we’ve dwelt on your failures enough in the previous exchanges.

As far as my photos, great, you don’t like them, shit happens, I’ll get over it. I guess it’s a good thing I’m not interested in pursuing the photography business.

Plenty of people like “toffs”.

Let’s leave it at that, shall we, it’s apparent I’ve upset you with my previous emails, and I presume you’ll now spend the extra minute it takes to spell check your emails before sending them out. Which was the intent behind the first email I sent you. You wouldn’t want to appear unprofessional after all.

PS, there were two other spelling mistakes, left on purpose, guess you didn’t catch those.
PPS, Grammar school just means you were too poor to go to a private school.
Jacques

I think I may have upset him.

Afternoon everyone!

Here’s you’re suggested events for this week …

Gus,
I’ve not been a photographer for Soonnight for over 6 months now, could you please stop sending me these emails?
Also, it’s incredibly unprofessional of you to be spelling things like an illiterate twelve year old, please use a spellchecker on your email and re-read it before sending it.
Regards,
Jacques

Edit: He replied!

Unprofessional? Just because i don’t have a stick up my arse doesn’t make me unprofessional Jacques. This is a brand that prides itself on informality and friendliness when talking to our photographers and using proper etiquette when required. Take that silver spoon out of your gob.

I am a busy person; to afford me the benefit of the doubt when misspelling “your”is not a lot to ask instead of berating me like a twelve year old yourself.
I don’t use spellcheck because 99% of the time I’m not an idiot and don’t need a computer to tell me how to spell.

If you have not been a photographer for some months now and have been receiving emails from me the polite thing to do would be to let me know without speaking down to me. Why has it taken you until now to tell me? If it is really as bad a scenario as your tone suggests, surely you would have put a stop to it sooner? I have only been in this position for 3 months and therefore did not know you had supposedly stopped taking photos for good, if indeed you emailed anyone at all to let them know when you decided to cease. We have a long list of photographers, some are inactive for months and just do the occasional event … having not heard from you or not received an email telling me to strike you off the list of photographers until now, I put you in this band.

The tone of voice I am getting from your email is as if you believe I have done you a great harm. For this I can only apologise, but as I think I have demonstrated … you could have let me known sooner and in a far more polite manner.

Your a sick.

sorry, spellcheck wasn’t on …

You’re a dick,

Gus

My reply.

Passing your English GCSE’s is not the same as having a stick up one’s arse, Gus, it’s simple things like that that you should already know.
The mistake wasn’t just in the misspelling of “your”, which in and of itself is bad enough, but in conjunction with “here’s” (as opposed to the correct “here are”) it really was embarrassing.

There’s a different between being informal and coming across as an idiot, Gus, and it’s a line which your previous emails frequently crossed.

I hope I have helped you achieve greater success in your professional future,
Jacques

Wonder if he’ll bite again.