As previously noted, it really isn't anything new. I had a professional-level employee once whose job included writing letters to job applicants explaining why they hadn't been selected for positions - and then, quite often, rewriting the letter for our facility director's signature explaining the same thing to the individual's congressman. She couldn't put three coherent sentences together to save her life! The director, who read everything given to her for signature, began correcting her material with a red marker and returning it to me. When confronted, my employee said, "of course I know how to write and spell...I do have a college degree, you know!" Luckily, she was sure that she should have had my job and, after her discrimination complaint was thrown out, soon went elsewhere.