Sorry English: A Shrine to Jun Urbano Reyes and His Works
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Climbing the Corporate Ladder
On pages 69-70, Jun advises his readers about "Climbing the Corporate Ladder." Here are some extracts:
In the corporate world, there is the ladder of success, but there are questions to consider such as; is there a secret in climbing the corporate ladder? What are the qualities needed for one to go up?
[Your resume] must be at least two pages
... continue associating with influential people, eltting them know your skills and capabilities. They are source [sic] of offers.
Include all important success qualities. To vie all other factors to climbt he corporate ladder, consider enthusiasm, self-confidence, pleasing personality, faith and belief, persistence, self-discipline, going the extra mile, goal-oriented, personal intitiative, concentration, positive self-image, accurate thinking, empathy, learning from defeat,and importantly, sound helath.
It's not really that easy climbing the corporate ladder, but you can be there and when you are there, give 100% of your heart to your job and service to others.
Why this Blog: As a Filipino engineer working for a Hong Kong accounting firm, there isn't much I can do about the declining English competence among my compatriots. Nor can I hope to single-handedly rescue the Philippine education system from the cesspool that it's in. So instead, I have decided to blog and poke fun at one of the perpetrators of bad English in the Philippines -- Mr Jun Urbano Reyes of Our Lady of Fatima University.
I picked up my wife's copy of "Business Correspondence" by Jun Urbano Reyes, and I laughed so loud it started me blogging. (My wife was given that book to use in the English class she teaches. Instead, she gave the book to me in disgust.)
In his acknowledgments, the good Mr Reyes gave "Special thanks to Mr Giovanni Sy that good looking guy and owner of Merriam Webster whose 'words of wisdom' gave me more confidence to come up with it."
Thank you, too, Mr Sy, for publishing this hilarious book.
What is "Any other else?"
I got the phrase from another great Engrish teacher, Ms C. She was my English teacher in 3rd year high school at Xavier. She'd use the phrase instead of "anything else?", and my friend D and I would keep a running total of the number of times she made this particularly irritating linguistic faux pas.
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