Hows’ (sic) it going?

I once had a manager who’d come by my cubicle every few days and literally ask me how things were going, just like that. I would say “fine” and off he would go. Honestly, it was some time before I even realized this was actually his way of asking me for a full status report on my projects and not just a social call. And so, yes, I was dumb, but surely he was dumber, and dumber still the people who had hired a manager of technical documentation who couldn’t spell let alone explain to anyone else how things worked.