Yep - this is our world!! Anyone else see this? (Callie - small rant)

 As a manager, the phrase I hate to hear the most is,"Its not my job."  It just drives me nuts.  If you aren't here for the good of the business, get go! 

And on a high school diploma!  Geez!  These are things that are kept in a frame on a wall, for a lifetime!  Get it right!  I'm glad they are getting new ones.  Its like screwing up on wedding photos, or like my friends had recently done to them, reading a baby's birth weight wrong.  My friends will never know now exactly how much their baby weighed when he was born.  mmmm....round, 6,14.... we think...

I live across the street from our local high school.  Back in November, they had posted "Happy Thanksgivg" on the readerboard.  And it stayed like that for the whole week.  I was embarrassed and amazed that nobody fixed it.

The font settings are indeed changeable, so it wasn't an abbreviation.  Duh!

Being in advertising, I know how easily typos can slip through. And that's what I think it was; I don't think someone didn't know how to spell it. Yes, it should have been caught. By the designer, printer, the high school employees. Once that first error was caught, the whole thing should have been carefully looked over. But I'm guessing they were in a rush to re-print them and nobody bothered to check.

When I was in college, I interned at a place that published Christian books & magazines. On my lunch break I was flipping through an old issue, and there was an article about teens "making out" in the hallways at school. They interviewed one teen that got a detention for kissing his girlfriend at school. He said that they don't do it anymore, and they only "peck in pubic." Yes, it was supposed to be public! Oops.

janobonano

I know how easily typos can slip through. And that's what I think it was; I don't think someone didn't know how to spell it.

Absolutely the right letters are there...they're just switched around. I am thinking typo.

We ALL by now have seen that oft-emailed passage, where the letters are reversed/switched/missing and we can ALL read it because your brain reads that way...not individual letters but their sum. I can quite believe someone or even 4-5 someone's didn't catch it because to them...in their brain...it read education...

Not indicative of idiocy IMO...more indicative of the human brain's ability to override itself to make sense of things.

In my copy of Duma Key...a book by SK, millions printed...and I found typos. LOL. It happens...even to professional writers with TONS of staff.

Yep, I agree that it was a typo. It should've been caught, but as someone who has the job of proofreading many of the documents we send out, I know how easily it can happen. I work for a huge charter school and it does look especially bad when we make those kinds of errors though. Very embarassing

Shoot, typos are nothing.  How many saw the poor elderly man get nailed by a hit and run driver and saw the video of people just continuing on with their day?  THAT kind of oversight is infuriating!  All I could think of when I saw it was my family and how I'd want to bash the people!

BCMixs

How many saw the poor elderly man get nailed by a hit and run driver and saw the video of people just continuing on with their day?

didn't see the video - but read the story  

that's what I thought this thread would be about 

One witness, Bryant Hayre, 37, told the Hartford Courant he didn't feel comfortable helping Torres, who he said was bleeding and conscious. "I'm not skilled enough when it comes to blood flowing or I would have helped him," Hayre said.

Wow!! I'm not trained or skilled enough either, but I surely wouldn't have just left the poor man lying there alone. That is just so very sad.

cakana

One witness, Bryant Hayre, 37, told the Hartford Courant he didn't feel comfortable helping Torres

I can see people being scared of things like HIV, but why wasn't he "comfortable" directing traffic to be sure that the guy didn't get hit again?

janet_rose

I can see people being scared of things like HIV, but why wasn't he "comfortable" directing traffic to be sure that the guy didn't get hit again?

It really is hard to imagine that people could NOT stop and help. I probably err on the side of not being cautious enough and it drives my husband crazy, but I'd rather take a chance trying to help someone than live with myself if I didn't. 

My dad walked out one morning while it was still dark to get his newspaper and tripped over the brick steps and fell. He broke his leg and cut up his hands and face badly. He laid there for a few minutes before a guy on his morning walk stopped and called 911. The thought that people would've just walked on by and left him there makes me cringe.

The thing that irritates me is the lame excuses people use to justify why they didn't help.  It is just another way of saying "I don't want to be involved".  Avoids lawsuits and such.  Bleh.

Gosh 12-14 years ago a road crew working in Mobile Alabama painted the street zone for traffic reasons and misspelled School   !!  If I remember correctly it was spelled Shcool ......

Bonita of Bwana

calliecritturs

This was on Yahoo this morning -- it says SO much to me about MANY things.  How little attention people pay to things that are important quality-wise.

 How everyone assumes it's everyone else's job.

 How few people care about spelling and accuracy.

We set ourselves up for stress and mockery!  I'll shut up now ... this from Yahoo this morning:

"WESTLAKE, Ohio - A Cleveland-area principal says he's embarrassed his students got proof of their "educaiton" on their high school diplomas.

Westlake High School officials misspelled "education" on the diplomas distributed last weekend. It's been the subject of mockery on local radio.

Principal Timothy Freeman says he sent back the diplomas once to correct another error. When the diplomas came back, no one bothered to check things they thought were right the first time.

The publisher has reprinted the diplomas a second time and sent them to the 330 graduates."

That's nothing!  That's just a typo that A LOT of people wouldn't see unless it was pointed out to them.

Get this - we've had roadworks being done near us.  One of the roads has been made wider and a bus lane has been put in.  This is what it says in two foot high letters on the surface of the road: "BUS TAXI AND LANE".  Yes, in two foot high letters.  It's MEANT to say "BUS TAXI AND CYCLE LANE", like it does further down the street....