Finally home after an intense 6 hours including an exam! A proper exam!! I don't do exams; I gave those up 35 years ago.
And I almost blew my chance of passing.
After completing the exam we were asked to do a course assessment and in the Any Other Comments bit I wrote: Please learn how to use apostrophes.
Which was a very fair comment - I thought - as the boxes on the assessment sheet were labelled Tutors name and Students name.
The tutor read my comment aloud and said, 'Who wrote that?' (They were anonymous.) Everyone pointed at me. 'It must be Liz.'
'Right, you've failed,' he said.
But when I made it clear that his PowerPoint presentation met my exacting standards and that it was the form produced by the college that was at fault, he relented.
Although it's not up to him as the exam papers are sent away to be marked. See, a proper exam!
And, as I anticipated, it's a wonder that anyone has survived after eating food produced by me in my kitchen.
17 comments:
You made an excellent comment. May I assume that the instructor was joking?
Yes, I think so, nick! (I hope so!)
Maybe he said "Your failing" instead of "You're failing" ?
I think instructors should be open to helpful criticism, don't you.
If he/she was not kidding, shame on hi
I must have missed a lot. Why are you on a food hygiene course?
Just caught up on your last few posts - you just keep me in stitches, Liz! So tell me, why did you go to a food hygiene course? Has anyone told you your food is dirty? lol
I know what you mean by apostrophes...the lack thereof, or put in the wrong place. It's a real bugbear of mine and when I see a billboard screaming sale of car's, f'rinstance, I actually want to go and do some damage to the offending sign.
My niece has done all this stuff when she was a care home manager. She freaked once when at our house and she opened the fridge. Apparently we do it all wrong - we've not changed
Hahahaha!! Good for you! I would have bee irritated to the point of wondering if I could take an exam seriously which demonstrated such low standards of written English!
Good for you for sticking up for apostrophes! Now, I'm curious, too, why you had to take a food hygiene class--is it because of the food you take to Zac's? I'd hate to think anyone would come and inspect my kitchen. I don't think there's dirt in my food, but I wouldn't guarantee that there's not a stray cat or dog hair:)
How can they fail you when THEY don't understand punctuation? Beats me!
ps: do you watch Big Brother?
What if anything do you think of Halfwit? Please tell at my today's post... I'm fascinated to know....
I hate exams too.
Oh, Liz, is apostrophe abuse as virulent in the UK as it is here? Makes me almost as crazy as abuse of less and fewer.
Hubby made a comment in the "What can your supervisor do to improve?" section of his first job evaluation. He said, "Get new information from the state office out to workers in a more timely manner." Next thing he knew, a pile of new info memos from the state office landed on his desk with instructions to get them copied and distributed to the workers.
He probably did, stu.
No, he was kidding, nitwit.
I'll explain in a separate post, suburbia!
I am considering walking around with a black felt pen in my pocket so I can do just that, puss!
I'm not changing either, furtheron.
Fortunately it was just the course assessment issued by the college that was at fault, jay.
I'm sure hairs get in our food, rose!
Oh, gledwood, I don't watch Big Brother.
It was a shock that it was so serious, cherrypie!
Apostrophe abuse is virulent here, katney.
You really got hit hard by that spammer, Liz. He put his list of ad links on at least 9 of your posts!
It is a very informative post.........food hygiene certificate level 2
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