Personal and Professional Training

[sam457]

Do you need help on MS Word, Excel, Access, or many other programs
Would you like a little more training in these programs to help yo
work more efficiantly in your career? Would you like to advance in you
job but need training on some programs to accomplish this? Or do yo
work in an office that needs to have team training on software comin
in? Look no further! I will come to your home or office and trai
either one individual or your whole business team on how to use thes
programs more efficiently! My name is Shannon Meloy; please contact m
at (e-mail address removed) for more information such as pricing and scheduling
I look forward to hearing from you! Thank you! (Washington State only

 

[JE McGimpsey]

In general, unsolicited advertising of services on these newsgroups is
not welcome. Your post is especially egregious since you are limiting
your services to such a small geographic area.

Worse, you multipost the same message to different newsgroups.
Cross-posting would still have been unwelcome, but at least I would only
have to mark your post read once.

You might also consider proofreading your posts - misspelling
"efficiently" is hardly a ringing endorsement of your professionalism.
That alone should eliminate you from consideration by most prospective
clients.

You might consider answering some questions in the groups, putting your
availability as a trainer in a signature line. Once you've developed a
reputation for competence, you'll probably find that you'll be solicited
regularly for paying work.

 

[sam457]

I do applogize for offending anyone. I didn't know offering my hel
would cause such an uproar. I have trouble learning from just readin
something on the screen and wanted to let others know there is anothe
alternative. As for the misspelled word, I am human and even though
ran it through the spell check it slipped through. You can take m
message off if it is that inappropriate. I would understand. I am a
instructor and do have the competence and knowledge to put this ou
there. I will not post this or any other messages again pertaining t
this. Again I appologize and just want to help

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I do applogize for offending anyone.

It's not a matter of being offended. It's a matter of keeping spam off
these groups.

No matter what your intentions, you clearly don't understand the medium
you're posting to:

- Simply from geography, your target audience is less than 1% of the
total readership of the groups. That alone makes your post spam, since
you wasted the time of 99%+ of us. If everyone who thought they were a
trainer posted a advertisement to the group, the usefulness of the group
would be seriously degraded.

- You multiposted, so that the majority of regular readers, who read
at least 3 or 4 of the groups you posted to, have to deal with your
advertisement multiple times.

I...wanted to let others know there is another alternative.

This seems awfully disingenuous. Do you really think that most readers
are unaware that there are trainers available?

As for the misspelled word, I am human and even though I ran it
through the spell check it slipped through.

Sorry - don't buy it. If you really ran it through a spell checker, then
you're incompetent in cutting and pasting. Far easier to believe that
you simply failed to spell check. Either way, it doesn't represent you
as someone I'd want to hire.

You can take my message off if it is that inappropriate.

Again, you clearly don't understand newsgroups. Your post went to
thousands of news servers all over the world - there's no mechanism for
"taking (it) off", and it will be archived by Google forever.

I am an instructor and do have the competence and knowledge to put
this out there.

But you are incompetent when it comes to the medium you chose to put
your message "out there". That's not a fatal flaw, but it's also not an
excuse when you're corrected. At best it's irritating. At worst, it
undermines your credibility and makes you look silly.

I...just want to help!

Me too - that's why I'm replying to you. Please stick around and be
helpful by answering questions. It's appreciated, and it happens to be
excellent advertising (I don't even post a signature line, and I average
multiple inquiries each day).

 

[Dave Peterson]

Severely off topic--about the spell checking stuff.

There was a guy at work (a hundred years ago) who was spellchecking a mainframe
dataset and was adding every misspelled word to his personal dictionary. I
could hear him yelling at how stupid the spell checker was since it didn't have
his (misspelled) words in it.

But this was the same person who wrote up a document, gave it to the secretary
to type up on magcards (remember those word processors!). She changed all his
"slotes" to "slots" (as in card slots).

He redlined the document to correct her corrections.

Gawd, I miss those good old days.

(from a good speller, but a lousy typest <vbg>.)

 

[anonymous]

"Please stick around and be helpful by answering
questions."

What are the chances of that happening after being called:

"disingenuous"
"you're incompetent"
"look silly"
"undermines your credibility"
"you are incompetent"
"you clearly don't understand newsgroups"
"it doesn't represent you as someone I'd want to hire."

Is this really a "newsgroup"?


After being described in such a manner, I can only
conclude that this "is hardly a ringing endorsement of
your professionalism."

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I suppose it depends on how much one is interested in helping, and how
much one is interested in avoiding criticism.

The OP's response seemed to me to miss the point of the previous
criticism, and to offer, yes, disingenuous excuses. That was my
perception, and I qualified that perception.

As far as incompetence goes, I'll admit that I was blunt, but I was
doing so as counterpoint to her claim of competence in Office -
competence in one area doesn't confer competence in all. It's no shame
to be incompetent, as long as one recognizes the fact.

The others are clearly my perception, which the OP is free to disregard,
but should probably examine before doing so.

And yes, this really is a newsgroup, no matter how it's dressed up by
web portals.

On a tangent, I'll note that I at least put my name on all my posts...