... it began with a simple email!

One could say that the email was the proverbial "last straw".  It wasn’t particularly earth-shattering, it wasn’t even that big a deal in the greater scheme of things – but when my response to it was “I really don’t give a $%^&”, I realised then that it was time to move on.

An extract from the “last straw” email:

on slide 12 of the  Presentation there is this sentence:

'Costs will only be captured after the Receipt has been posted – when you balance to the Invoices'

can you please clarify for me what balance to the Invoices means?

I was CC’d in on  this email because said Presentation was developed by me, so hence the “balance to the invoices” grammatical error was mine.  However, upon reading this email, my usual response of quickly fixing the error and apologising to everyone from the MD to the Security Guard for  my literary incompetence didn’t kick in… my only and I mean ONLY thought was “I really don’t give a $%#$”.  And the truth was, I REALLY (really) didn’t give a %^$#.  In fact, a week later, the presentation was still balancing "to the Invoices". 

It was then that I realised, my time in training material development had come to an end.  Ensuring that sentences involving “invoices”, “balancing” and “costs” were grammatically correct, just didn’t do it for me anymore.  The 4 hrs that I spent every day developing this material, was 4 hours of my life that I couldn’t get back and I decided there and then, I wasn’t going to waste a minute more. 

So for the record, my spelling isn’t great. I will make grammatical errors (that's been proven). I’ll try my best to proof read and fix them, but you know what, if you come across an error, and no doubt you will, deal with it and move along swiftly, because you can bet your ass, that that's what I’ll be doing!!

Future blogs will explain more about my B4 Forty journey.. so check in from time to time as I cruise my way through the alphabet over the next 3 years!!