So today, I was tasked to write a query letter to someone by my
boss, Matron. I smiled. It was a smile that I alone understood. Query letter is
a letter I'm very familiar with.
This month I resigned from my second job as a teacher. I used to
receive queries like like toffees. It was always for lesson notes or late
coming. I hated lesson notes preparation. I felt I didn't need prior planning
to teach maths or ICT to a candidate class for BECE.
The queries used to come with some fiscal penalty but I was never
budged. A single academic term without a query was a great achievement to brag
about.
Nonetheless, the pupils knew I know my left from right about what I
was doing. Even the school management knew delivering the deliverables was a
conspicuous forte I wield.
Every staff at point knew I was a veteran query receiver. One day,
my man Alootey Van-Ess teased that I could open a consortium on how to receive
queries and respond to queries. Lol
Typical of me, I occasionally employed obfuscatory words and
logorrhoea to respond to my queries.
So, here I was, the veteran query receiver ready to query. I reached
out for my laptop and my mind was inundated with all the mundane dictions used
in pro query letter. I was typing swiftly - flowing like a knife through
butter!
Then, when I got to "you should reply to this query giving
reasons why further displicinary actions should not be taken against you",
I smiled again.
If a query letter fails to end with this statement, then it's a
MISNOMER!
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