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

AP article about the hit and run.

Video

There's already a thread about that hit and run incident  

 And that thread references this thread.  LOL! 

Chuffy

There's already a thread about that hit and run incident   

This one started first (irresponsibility - typos & car accident).

 I thought I was going mad for a minute!

Chuffy

I thought I was going mad for a minute! 

You're not?        

I really believe that one needs to be a little mad/crazy to stay sane.

I think it's awful that no one went to him to comfort him - but at least there were four 911 phone calls within the first minute, and the police were at his side within a minute and forty five seconds.

My point wasn't that people were too stupid to know it wasn't spelled correctly -- it WAS a typo. 

BUT ... my point was i something that important someone should have caught it.  It should have been double-proofed before it went out. 

When we do a legal description for  a deed we double-proof it, because if it's wrong then someone doesn't own the property they THINK they do. 

My point was people don't take enough pride in their work TO proof something carefully.  Sometimes a typo is just a 'typo' - no big deal.  SOMETIMES it ***is*** a big deal.  Like in something someone hangs on their walls for the next 50 years. 

We've all gotten so that slapdash IS acceptable.  "Oh it's just a typo".  It was a frigging DIPLOMA!  Look for the darned red line under the word if you won't take time to do spell check!! 

And as for the elderly man (that wasn't in my post!) we've all gotten so we're afraid to breathe for fear someone will sue us.  That's another whole kettle of fish. 

Sometimes I hate to hear the words "I don't feel comfortable doing that".  What a cop out.  It's a euphemism ... a politically correct way of saying "I don't want MY butt in the grinder if something goes wrong!"

Risk -- weigh it carefully -- but sometimes you have to take it in order to look at yourself in the morning!

calliecritturs

We've all gotten so that slapdash IS acceptable.  "Oh it's just a typo".  It was a frigging DIPLOMA!  Look for the darned red line under the word if you won't take time to do spell check!! 

I totally agree!!  On the other hand, one has to find people who are capable of doing this.  The mind's ability to perform its own "spell correction algorithm" is strong.  I have done enough proofreading to more or less override that algorithm. 

Unfortunately, that also means that I can't even read the newspaper without proofing it. 

calliecritturs

Risk -- weigh it carefully -- but sometimes you have to take it in order to look at yourself in the morning!

Amen!  People also need to differentiate between risk and inconvenience.  They are not the same thing!

calliecritturs

We've all gotten so that slapdash IS acceptable. 

Umm no..but some of us have gotten to where the word ALL is used so much I wonder if that's truly fair to well...ALL the people in the world.

I agree that it should have been double proofed and triple proofed, but, being charitable here, I could still believe that several people did the job to the best of their ability and the mistake slipped through.  The words painted on to the road I mentioned - NO WAY did somebody NOT see that happening.  The attitude was "well, it's not my @$$ on the line...." and that's an attitude I really can't stand.... 

On a slightly different but related note - a few weeks ago someone in this area had a baby girl and named her Melanie ... but the idiots that did the birth certificate for some weird reason put "Kevin" on the name line. Weeks later, the parents still haven't been issued a birth certificate with the correct  name on it and by now there's probably been a social security number issued for "Kevin." It seems like the longer this goes on, the more chaos it's going to create for them.

Joyce

   There are systems of checking this, it is called sending a proof to the customer, and the customer signs off on it.  You have to figure the person designing it reads it, if it is actually getting printed the pre-press folks eyeball it, when making a proof.  The plate gets looked over before it goes to press, after being proofed.  Once on press, besides the pressman eyeballing it, often a foreman or someone in management ok's it before running.  Bindery gets to eyeball it.  It then goes to the customer, who signed off on the proof.

  So why isn't it caught?  Thank the education system for cutting back any industrial ed programs they can for the last 20 years.  Much of what you are seeing in the industry these days are hispanics.  While being good workers they often don't have as firm a grasp on the English language as many people.  Most anyone who can read at a decent level is going to college, looking for a desk job.  They don't want to get their hands dirty.

  After 30 years as a pressman, and one of the younger guys who has a decent comprehension of the English language, I have caught countless typos on press, resulting in the job getting pulled.  "An Intensive Pogrom"  in a headline was one of my favorites, it didn't get run.  A tearjerking story about a nursing unit where they "all started balling" was another.  Fixing that was a good idea, we were tempted to let it fly.  These all run through spellcheck. 

Tolak

  So why isn't it caught?  Thank the education system for cutting back any industrial ed programs they can for the last 20 years.  

I don't think you can really blame the education system for the cuts.  From what's going on here in CA right now, I'd say the cuts are forced on them.  Whenever the state finds itself in a financial crisis, the "powers that be" always choose to balance the budget on the backs of the schools and programs for the elderly and poor rather than  making smaller and more equitable cuts across the board.

Joyce

   I have a high school right behind my house.  When I see them  cutting the industrial ed programs and putting who knows how many thousands of dollars into a new ball field  I see a problem.  While I am all for sports and healthy exercise, very few people turn their high school sport into a lifetime of earning.