Dear applicants to the position of my closest co-worker:

why, oh why are you applying for a position where you have to write - lots, coherently, and building up to a logically bombproof conclusion - if you can't even write a half-page application well? I've really tried to be nice, I know many of you are young and inexperienced, but the amount of crap I've had to wade through is just appalling. Youth is no excuse for being a pompous a**. Or writing sentences without a verb.