diff --git a/compute_endpoint/globus_compute_endpoint/executors/high_throughput/manager.py b/compute_endpoint/globus_compute_endpoint/executors/high_throughput/manager.py
index 84131d2f3..53c102166 100755
--- a/compute_endpoint/globus_compute_endpoint/executors/high_throughput/manager.py
+++ b/compute_endpoint/globus_compute_endpoint/executors/high_throughput/manager.py
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 )
 from globus_compute_endpoint.executors.high_throughput.worker_map import WorkerMap
 from globus_compute_endpoint.logging_config import ComputeLogger, setup_logging
-from globus_compute_sdk.serialize import ComputeSerializer
 from parsl.version import VERSION as PARSL_VERSION
 
 RESULT_TAG = 10
@@ -241,7 +240,6 @@ def __init__(
         self.heartbeat_period = heartbeat_period
         self.heartbeat_threshold = heartbeat_threshold
         self.poll_period = poll_period
-        self.serializer = ComputeSerializer()
         self.next_worker_q: list[str] = []  # FIFO queue for spinning up workers.
         self.worker_procs: dict[str, subprocess.Popen] = {}
 
diff --git a/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/base.py b/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/base.py
index 118e49d44..dce72c019 100644
--- a/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/base.py
+++ b/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/base.py
@@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 
 
-class DeserializationError(Exception):
-    """Base class for all deserialization errors"""
-
-    def __init__(self, reason):
-        self.reason = reason
-
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return f"Deserialization failed due to {self.reason}"
-
-    def __str__(self):
-        return self.__repr__()
-
-
 class SerializeBase(metaclass=ABCMeta):
     """Shared functionality for all serializer implementations"""
 
@@ -37,14 +24,6 @@ def chomp(self, payload: str) -> str:
             )
         return payload
 
-    def check(self, payload):
-        try:
-            x = self.serialize(payload)
-            self.deserialize(x)
-
-        except Exception as e:
-            raise SerializerError(f"Serialize-Deserialize combo failed due to {e}")
-
     @abstractmethod
     def serialize(self, data):
         raise NotImplementedError("Concrete class did not implement serialize")
@@ -58,8 +37,15 @@ class SerializerError:
     def __init__(self, reason):
         self.reason = reason
 
-    def __str__(self):
-        return self.reason
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return f"Serialization failed due to {self.reason}"
+
+
+class DeserializationError(Exception):
+    """Base class for all deserialization errors"""
+
+    def __init__(self, reason):
+        self.reason = reason
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return self.__str__()
+        return f"Deserialization failed due to {self.reason}"
diff --git a/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/concretes.py b/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/concretes.py
index 8e33edd23..03355f6f0 100644
--- a/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/concretes.py
+++ b/compute_sdk/globus_compute_sdk/serialize/concretes.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ def deserialize(self, payload: str, variation: int = 0):
 """
 Functions are serialized using the follow methods and
 the resulting encoded versions are stored.  Redundancy if
-one of the methods fail on deserlization, undetectable during
+one of the methods fail on deserialization, undetectable during
 serialization attempts previously.
 
 Note that of the 3 categories of failures: