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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Kitchen_Drawing_7180 on 2023-09-14 14:52:19.
I read a LinkedIn post made by a coworker recently and was embarrassed for him. He's in sales and the crux of the post was about how he had saved a client lots of money on something, but it contained numerous errors, like using "their" instead of "they're", unnecessary apostrophes, and he even used both the "$" and the word dollars when describing the amount of money his client saved. And I see frequently here on Reddit people forgetting that the "$" symbol goes before the amount and instead they put it after the amount.
My gut reaction when I see a post like this is to think the person is stupid. But this guy is most definitely not stupid, and I know that many others who write poorly also aren't stupid. This guy's good at what he does, his clients love him, and if you judge success by the amount of money a person makes, he's incredibly successful (as in, probably makes more than many doctors). He's also always willing to spend time with new people on his team and teach them his ways (which he doesn't have to do). Dude's a freaking all-around awesome human.
So why do some people write so poorly but do seemingly everything else so well?