Posted by BrendaTX on 7/31/04 12:34pm
Msg #5279

Signing Agent Tests - a small rant

Today, I am doing marketing. One of the companies I am signing up with requires a test. It is irksome to be asked to take a test when one of the questions --published on the web no less-- begins:

"Your at a signing appointment with ..."

Reply by PAW Notary Services on 7/31/04 2:07pm
Msg #5283

Sorry, Brenda, but I'm not following your logic. Is there a question in your post? From a business perspective, these agencies( and title companies and lenders) often are getting a pig in a poke. They have no idea what your level of competency is, especially considering some of the questions that have been posted on the public boards by "Certified Notary Signing Agents"!! To ensure they have 'qualified' NSA's doing their signings (at least from their perspective), they have developed a test. Not a big deal, if you ask me. AAMOF, I think it's a good idea, with a decent test, to weed out the unqualified agents and minimize their potential for field errors.

Reply by HisHughness on 7/31/04 2:19pm
Msg #5284

Paul replied to Brenda - TXXX:

***Sorry, Brenda, but I'm not following your logic. Is there a question in your post?***

Brenda is complaining that someone who doesn't know the difference betwee the possessive "your" and the contraction "you're" is presumptuous enough to tell her she has to take a test. I think I share her frustration.

Reply by BrendaTX on 7/31/04 4:50pm
Msg #5291

That is it, Hugh. I am certainly not above being tested for skills. We get so many DO NOT's and BE SURE's that I am, perhaps, being overly critical.

We notary-types check, check, and double check to do our jobs. Now, if only the folks who were testing me were careful to proofread the information they use for testing. This particular test was full of errors. I just needed to vent.

Reply by PAW Notary Services on 8/1/04 12:06am
Msg #5303

Ah, I missed the point. Sorry 'bout that.

Reply by BrendaTX on 7/31/04 5:13pm
Msg #5292

I should have expanded a little more to cover the scope of my rant.

But, while we are on the subject , I am, as usual, in agreement with you Tests are necessary. I only wish the test makers would put the same emphasis on the accuracy in the spelling, grammar and punctuation for the test content as they put on the work product for those of us who take them.

In this particular test, there were so many material errors due to punctuation, and other subtle errors, that it was hard to really know what some of the questions were.

If I am starting to sound a little bit like Hugh in my grumbling, it is because Hugh is:

a) My Twin
b) My Big Cookie
c) Really me
d) An accomplished mind controller
e) All of the above


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Brenda

Reply by Brenda Stone on 7/31/04 5:16pm
Msg #5293

I got so concerned with why I sound like Hugh that I posted before proofreading my own post...

Reply by HisHughness on 7/31/04 6:16pm
Msg #5294

Brenda advised:

***If I am starting to sound a little bit like Hugh in my grumbling, it is because Hugh is:

a) My Twin
b) My Big Cookie
c) Really me
d) An accomplished mind controller
e) All of the above***

The correct answer is "None of the above." I am actually a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, with a penchant for phone booths.

[Parenthetically, I wasn't aware I was doing all that much grumbling about such matters, and seem to recall that it was the same aforesaid Brenda TXXX who kicked off a rather lengthy and sometimes acrimonious discussion with some excellent advice to newbies about how they macerate the language. However, since the perception seems to be that I am in the vanguard of complainers, I'll certainly rein in such impulses in the future.]

Reply by BrendaTX on 7/31/04 7:06pm
Msg #5295

Hugh, I adore you! I said " I "was grumbling...did not mean you were a grumbler, though I suppose it did sound that way. To that, I apologize.

I give up! I keep stepping right in the middle of fresh cowpatties. I hate those things. Especially when I am barefoot, or in sandals.