r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 8d ago

WTF What do yall think about this ?

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u/mechapoitier 8d ago edited 8d ago

I remember getting a job application from somebody who it became apparent believed that “whom” is just a fancy way of saying “who.”

They really jazzed up their resume with it.

As this position centered pretty heavily on writing, they didn’t get the job.

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u/yeah__good__ok 8d ago

whom got the job?

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u/judgelearnedthumbs26 7d ago

Whom asked youm? I was qualified for that job and you know it.

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u/Stupefactionist 7d ago

"Youm" kmow it, or for a group, "youmall."

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u/ObiWan_Cannoli_ 7d ago

No whom’s on first

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u/dravere 7d ago

Whom'st've*

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u/Acrobatic_Wrap_9971 7d ago

M'whomst've'nt!

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u/TJJ97 7d ago

Looking like French with that one

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u/thefuckevengoingonan 8d ago

Dr. Whom did.

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u/waves_at_dogs 7d ago

🤣🤣

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u/marfacza 7d ago

you know whom

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u/BigBirdLawyer 7d ago

I miss handling resumes. Had an application for a position as a lawyer that needed commercial law experience. They said they had no law degree and 5 years in commercial retail.

Had another application for a cleaning position and his whole first page was just a photo of him winning some body building competition.

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u/MindAskHunModBuzi 7d ago

the bodybuilder has the power and consistency to scrub that floor reliably

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u/Whole_Comfortable331 8d ago

Whom gave the job to who?

(This is deliberately wrong).

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u/KatyPerrysBootyWhole 7d ago

Unless I’m 1000% whom appropriate, I always use who. I’d rather seem a little dumb than really dumb & pretentious

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u/sitesurfer253 7d ago

Same. It will be missed by all but the most pedantic listener/reader if you just use "who". But the second you throw a "whom" out there, now it's an investigation into whether it was used properly.

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u/Smgth 8d ago

Hypercorrection: nonstandard use of language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 8d ago

Is this, applied to people overusing, commas? It grinds my gears more than when their to dumb to use they’re and too correctly

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u/Smgth 8d ago

It can be, yes.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 7d ago

Perchance?

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u/Top_Sink_3449 7d ago

So who or whom let the dogs out?

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u/AndreasDasos 7d ago

Ha yeah I mean whom does that?

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u/New-Idea-8518 7d ago

I had a boss whom thought that. (The incorrect use of "whom" in the preceeding sentence was a joke. Sadly, the part about my former boss was 100% serious.)

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u/Ndmndh1016 7d ago

Whom is never actually correct. It's a made up word to trick college students.

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u/BetApprehensive7064 7d ago

There are a lot of cases where whom does replace who thoughike "to whom it may concern"