Pet peeves

Barbara Esmedina has kindly offered to let us share some behind-the-scenes results from her Proposals & BD Professionals survey, which I mentioned here last week. (Do spend a few minutes completing the survey, if you get a few spare moments!)

I’m fascinated by some of the answers that have come in so far to the question “Do you have a pet peeve?”. Here are my favourites so far – some that provoke anguished grimaces of recognition, others that just made me smile:

“People holding on to RFPs for days before sending through to RFP team to work on them.”

“Folks who don’t read :-) ”

“Sales reps that don’t read the finished product.”

“A resume that claims excellent communications skills and reads as if written by a third grader.”

“People who are: late, disinterested, lazy, unethical, immoral, social climbers, corporate ladder climbers and way more interested in themselves than you.”

“People who don’t SPELLCHICK ;-) ”

“I don’t believe peeves should be kept as pets.” (!!!!!!)

We’ll be posting more of the survey’s conclusions as people continue to contribute over the coming weeks.

This article was written by Jon on 15 July, 2007 and filed under Processes & best practice, Word play & writing. If you found it useful, you can with others. To receive automatic updates, subscribe to The Proposal Guys via RSS or Email.

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