Very poor handwriting
@Professor2010 (20162)
India
July 19, 2010 6:21am CST
Friends today I had been to the bank near my home to make some fixed deposits. They gave me receipt against this, but the name etc was filled up manually by a bank staff. I was really sad 
to see that the writing was almost illegible. The hand writing of this man was so bad. 
In my opinion they should recruit employees that have good handwriting. Also they can hire persons, who have beautiful handwriting for filling up such certificates.
I am proud to tell I have very good handwriting. The credit goes to my primary school teacher, who was very rigid about nice handwriting. I always write my research papers etc in pen and papers, this makes my writing cute.
What about you, do you write letters, diary etc daily to maintain good handwriting?
Please also comment on the story about the bank staff. Thanks in advance.
Professor
to see that the writing was almost illegible. The hand writing of this man was so bad.
In my opinion they should recruit employees that have good handwriting. Also they can hire persons, who have beautiful handwriting for filling up such certificates.
I am proud to tell I have very good handwriting. The credit goes to my primary school teacher, who was very rigid about nice handwriting. I always write my research papers etc in pen and papers, this makes my writing cute.
What about you, do you write letters, diary etc daily to maintain good handwriting?
Please also comment on the story about the bank staff. Thanks in advance.
Professor3 people like this
26 responses
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
I agree the customer should be able to read it..
cheers.
Professor. .
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
19 Jul 10
hello Prof,
I am proud to say i have a very good handwriting.
I guess some were gifted with good handwriting and some attained from constant practice and determination.
I can say,i am born with this gift,ever since i started my alphabets,i really can write good,well and very neat.
Regarding the bank staff,i think you were right.
They can assigned someone to write or fill up the form with someone who can write in good and neat way,so people can read it easily and understand what is written.
Have a good day always 
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Glad to know you have nice handwriting, wish you could write me a letter..
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Yes we too had this class madam
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
19 Jul 10
I used to categorically refuse to correct the papers of my students if and when I saw bad handwriting.THat is the importance I give to handwriting.My handwriting is supposed to be very good in both English and Tamil.Now I am middleaged and I use the computer to a great extent but still my handwriting is good and I intend writing something or the other just to maintain my writing.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Thanks for sharing your views. Glad to know you have good hand writing.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
20 Jul 10
Hello Paps!
I am not bragging but I do have a nice hand writing too. And i can do different kinds, I have a hand writing guide at home. That is why when I am doing scrap book I like to play with my writing. About hiring people with poor hand writing, I have to believe that it is right. Although some are illiterate to write, writing is important and very important is to understand what you had written. It can lead to future problems if you will not take action on this.
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@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
22 Jul 10
Yes I agree Paps! They have a natural talent and they can write straight, no need to have a pattern.
Thanks for the BR Paps!!
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Hi beta
Welcome after a long gap
Here you can see persons who write signboards, they don't understand what they write, but handwriting is beautiful..
God bless you friend,
Professor. .
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Most doctors have very poor hand writing, i agree..
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@Bebs08 (10681)
• United States
21 Jul 10
That is really a disappointing situation when some employees of banks and other institution dealing with writing documents have hard to read writing. I admire people who can write clearly and neatly specially in important documents. Congratulations that you had it. I can write nicely also sometimes.. and I credit that too to my teachers not in elem but high school because they let me write their lessons on the board which give me a challenge to improve my writing hahaha...
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Happy to know you wrote on the board.
Thanks for telling us.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
21 Jul 10
Hi Professor~ You are right that those in the positions where they
must still handwrite certain certificate should at least have
proper legible handwriting. It is sad that those growing up today
probably don't do much writing except to sign their name now and
then! Unfortunately, I must admit that although when I was in
school it was important to learn handwritting and be good at it
my teachers must not have cared because my handwritting is
totally illegible and even I can't read what I wrote! My printing
isn't much better. So obviously when I was learning how to write
no one much cared how bad I was at it! It was lucky for me
when I learned to type on typewritters because I no longer had
to handwrite anymore!
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Hello Opal
You are kidding friend, how can you not read your own handwriting..
God bless you, cheers.
Professor. .
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
21 Jul 10
Whereas in today's society there are a lot of people that will simply do all of their writing by typing on the computer, I very much prefer to handwrite those things that I am writing first and then transfer it to the computer. When I was in school I didn't get good marks in handwriting because of the fact that I am left handed, but as I got older, I think that my handwriting turned out to be very nice. I'm often complimented on it even though it does slant backwards for most people.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
22 Jul 10
Thanks for response doran.
Many lefthanders too have nice handwriting
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
19 Jul 10
I guess nowadays it is not so good to discriminate people in hiring for new jobs if they got poor handwriting skills. Specially now that everything is done by computers through a keyboard, or through a voice recognition software. Maybe in a few years, the art of writing with pen and paper will go away. Hopefully not in my lifetime.
I also have good handwriting skills, I think. I also went through good training in my primary school days. Credit to my teachers back then, when we had writing workbooks where we had to repeat sentences over and over until we got our penmanship right.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Thanks for sharing your views.Credit goes to teacher certainly.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@akhileshnigam (494)
• India
1 Aug 10
I am fully agree with you thanks for your comments & sharing.
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@johnpillai (2082)
• Germany
20 Jul 10
When i was a school child and a teacher i had a wonderful handwriting. Now a days I seldom write. so my hand writing is getting worse. Most of the time i write for me. Whenever i write for me i write very badly. Whenever i write for others i try my level best to write it legible.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Thanks for response Mrs Pillai.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@dminotaur (134)
• Philippines
20 Jul 10
I used to draw and stuff. Lettering.
Now, my hands have evolved from artiste to for-computer-keyboards-and-mouse only. :)
So, my handwriting is pretty bad. Well, it was bad before - it's worse now. hehe.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Is that so bad?
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@Lolsoup (25)
• United States
19 Jul 10
I myself have terrible handwriting, so I must disagree. Having excellent handwriting should not contribute to being hired to a job that isn't 100% about handwriting.
However, I firmly believe that everything in this day and age, especially done by a corporation, should be typed out and printed to look as professional as possible.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Thanks for response. Welcome to mylot.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
19 Jul 10
Good morning Professor. Penmanship is not taught in the schools any more. As long as the teachers can make out what is being written that is all that counts. My granddaughter was a very messy writer and her teacher complained about it she didn't want to help correct it. I suggested that if her papers were messy I would make her rewrite and the teacher could just look at it and tell her if it was expectable or not. she didn't need to correct it just tell the granddaughter if it looked good but the teacher said she didn't have time. The computer is used so much now that learning good handwriting is not considered as important as it used to be. Also printing is now the thing to do.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Well but in exams one has to write not type, if the writing is bad, the student may get less mark..
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Jul 10
hi professor My own handwriting is not so good, it was good as a child as w e had a very strict teacher who called it penmanship. Now days we just do not do much handwriting and most are emails so its just a matter of typing in things. I think if there is an need for handwriting in a bank this should be done by people who do have beautiful handwriting. My bank uses automatic typing instead so all is very easy to read.,The typing does away with people with bad handwriting. I always wonder at my doctor's scribble when he makes out a prescription for me, how does the pharmacist know what he wrote?
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
LOL the pharmacists are well acquianted with the doctors handwriting..
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@hanagi (390)
• Philippines
19 Jul 10
I agree with you that employees that are required to use pen in filling up should have a good handwriting. It is difficult to have accurate data and often people would get wrong information because of that. I am also proud that I possess a very good handwriting, i love writing notes and I think it had help me a lot to have a good handwriting.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Thanks for response.
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
@sakthimaharai (154)
• India
19 Jul 10
Hi Professor,
I agree with your point.Poor hand writing people can not work where it has some written work like what you said.Since it is difficult for both customers and employers.
But myself have very bad hand writing but i work in software industry.So no problem for me.:)
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
21 Jul 10
Thanks for response. Glad to you work in software industry
God bless you friend, cheers.
Professor. .
