Perhaps I'm a little lucky. My boss recognises his difficulty with writing clear English when in a hurry and generally asks me to read and correct his papers, particularly those going out to customers or to the board of directors. Or he asks me to write them for him, particularly if there is a need to do some research.

Better yet, he acknowledges my help, so much so that the CEO sometimes asks him which of us actually wrote the paper. But then they're both very reasonable people who I get on with very well, and in that I know that I'm unusually fortunate!

For web-site specific issues, we don't go to the boss, we go to the webmistress and her little elves. They're more than happy when someone points out that there's whoops! on the pages.



The idiot also known as Capfka ...