It's Called Professionalism, Guys

I work at a creative-type camera company that does a lot of workshop and contest collaborations with local as well as international publications and other creative companies. Most of those companies put their best foot forward in order to appear like a good match for our collaborations, which usually includes checking to make sure that their press and event coordinators can spell. A few companies, though, apparently take the "Shakespeare written by monkeys at a typewriter" approach when hiring their PR reps. I literally just got this email, which is serious and in no way faked, elaborated upon, or changed in any way (other than the omission of specific company names and telephone numbers, in brackets):

"there is no i in we an im looking to collaborate in on this event and we are hosting a Competition and conferene 2010 Hynes Convention Center George Robert white stadium we would love for [company] to take over some space in the confrence to isplay how the cameras are loaded and how pictures are taken most of all show the atendees what the [company] the cameras the wrting or bloging online taking snap shots and following up with written iffo to follow the under water pics are cool and the high speed pics are splendid also if some one from the office in ney york could call me to discuss the dates and times on the confrence dates that would be spectacular

[contact information] please contact me soon as we arein need of the Knowledge of how many attendee are going to be there to determine how many workshops will be present for te students to take part in.....plus we musr register all the info with the appropriate centers before december 31st thanks bunches!"

Seriously? If i didn't know better, I would imagine that my eleven year old sister who recently got access to email was hired to write this proposal. However, I can tell it isn't her, because she actually punctuates her sentences (with five exclamation points each, but it's punctuation nonetheless).

Clearly, educated adults are becoming harder and harder to find, and so these companies are forced to hire Koko the sign-language gorilla to bang out their press inquiries. The recession really has taken a toll on everyone.

-Customer Service