By pissed_off_girl - 01/04/2013 02:59 - United States - Falls Church

Today, I had to proof-read a terrible paper containing a bunch of mistakes. It took me 4 hours and I didn't eat dinner until I was done. His response when he got it back was, "What the fuck did you do to my paper?! You bitch!" FML
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Sir_ND_Pity 35

"I took all of the stupid out of it! " Too bad you can't do that with people. Sorry, OP, FYL!

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Grootensliven 10

He's just pissed off that you could improve on his work that he thought was perfect.

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kiloutou_fml 7

If he asked you to proof read for quality, then FYL. But if you were asked to proofread spelling and basic syntax errors, then YDI, he didn't ask you to rewrite or ameliorate it, just check it.

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DropBearMeat 23

Presumably the person in question is a student and wants to get a good grade. Proofreading a student's paper means to provide corrections to spelling, grammar and punctuation as well as suggesting improvements to style, prose, flow, etc. A student will be graded on ALL of that and they're asking you to help them improve their grade so they have absolutely no right to complain if those suggestions are completely valid. Speaking from personal experience with papers like that, I'm fairly certain they were almost all grammar, spelling, and punctuation corrections. I can't even begin to look at help improving someone's content until they've sorted out all of that first. It's just too distracting. If I were buying a house, I'd expect it to be clean. If you want me to buy your house, I expect there to be no garbage in sight. The same is true for editing remarks: pick up all the litter in your writing first. Afterwards we'll discuss how well you're selling your ideas to your reader.

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Jharrist89 12

Well hopefully this raised a bunch of red flags, and you can help the kid do better next time.

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sezzle17 11

Don't be so greedy about your goddamn dinner gurl! Just do your job Quietly please

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SaxophoneHero 12

You,sir, just sank knee deep in stupid.

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jbuckets_404 38

@OP: Don't spend more than one hour on ANY paper, but sign off: Too Many Additional Errors to Correct - but not before you correct at least one example of each type of error so that the author knows what's wrong and how to fix it. You could also high-light each un-corrected error and/or write down the total count for each type/ example of error so that the author knows how many exist overall. Good luck! :-)

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pbonham 22

I'm actually speechless... There aren't even words invented to explain how idiotic this person is

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simplysarcastics 26

So much disrespect when you are only trying to help. I would have got up and left and took my revisions. Besides he can print a new one.

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cappellaaa 23

people are so dumb and annoying anymore. jeeze

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monpetitchevelle 4

Not sure why you're complaining OP, I presume proof reading papers is your job and not having your dinner on time I'm sure didn't kill you.

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perdix 29

How can you trust the editing of someone who doesn't know how to insert the antecedent of a pronoun? Who is "he?" Your boyfriend, your roommate, your husband, your brother, your dad? I'm curious how many OMGs and LOLs you inserted into "his" paper.

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