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Comment by WilliamEdward | Hacker News Reader

Glad to know the difference between me having money to survive and being jobless will be a typo.

What, your keystrokes were streamed to the hiring manager as you typed? Writing is not real-time communication, take the time to review it before you send it. I corrected a few typos while writing this comment.

Mistakes can happen even after proofreading.

And if a hiring manager wants to evaluate your proofreading ability and attention to detail, more power to them.

rm -rf / can accidentally go into prod after proof reading.

"Sorry you're bankrupt boss it was just a typo"

Put a different way - isn't it nice to know that the only thing you have to do to avoid being jobless is to spend five minutes proofreading your submissions?

Only if you were right on the border line to begin with.

I cannot express how little sympathy I have for this tale of woe.

That's kind of the problem - lack of sympathy.

That's kind of the problem... hiring managers don't hire people because they feel sorry for them. They hire people because they think those people will be good at doing the work the manager needs to have done.

After working with you side by side for a few weeks, the manager may, in all likelihood, genuinely feel sympathy for a problem you may have (though apostrophe use likely doesn't fall into that category). But that will have been because you earned it by being a colleague.

A typo such as misspelling "principal".

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