Take Her Comma Key Away

I've mentioned the IT Manager at work before (the Chief ITP). She sent out a wonderful email a couple of days ago. Here it is in its entirety, unaltered:

I get complaints about the speed of the network and the speed of the internet connections. We looked at this and it seem like people are listening to streaming audio(the radio) on the internet.

Now, we can listen to streaming audio(the radio), or we can use the bandwidth to do our business applications. Lotus Notes mail, move files between offices and general internet access for research.

Now, the first time I read this email, I had the same reaction as my friend Dave (with whom I shared the idiocy): Wow, at one point, bandwidth was a problem, but NOW the ITPs have gone to work, upped the bandwidth, and we can all be resource hogs and do our work WHILE listening to "streaming audio(the radio)."

But then, like Dave, I figured out that she was chiding us.

Personally I, want, to enroll the, woman, in a Remedial Comma Usage, class.

I couldn't make this crap up.

[Posted at 20:00 CST on 05/01/02] [Link]