Communication skills – not the same as intelligence!

 

 Here’s a great example of someone who is so clever he can hardly speak English!  This is copied verbatim from the emails:

My question:

Can I nominate someone to be the person I can delegate it to if I am away? 

Reply:

The nominations for supervisors are normally from a pre-populated list.  As a default, a person’s supervisor will always be their manager.  

Me trying to clarify:

…but could I add someone to that list, someone who reports to me, if I had my bosses agreement?

Reply:

You would have to ask the systems administration team to add an ‘approved’ person to be your substitute.  This nominee will be available from a list of supervisor(s) allocated to you.

 At which point I gave up!

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Other recent examples of unclear language / jargon:

huh?

and…

WFT is a “media request”?

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