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That is a good story, so I won't mention the apostrophe crime in the first sentence
Now and then, I need to draft letters and notices that go out to every household in which kids attend our schools (about 20K kids).
I made this mistake in one of the letters, and several people called the Superintendent directly to complain. How can an institution of learning, blah blah blah. . .and then my boss chose to inform me of this (I had not been aware of the mistake prior to this moment) in a room full of other administrators. . .
blah blah blah. . .and then my boss chose to inform me of this (I had not been aware of the mistake prior to this moment) in a room full of other administrators. . .
That was a pretty awful thing to do. (The public dressing down, not the mistake. Although the mistake was, well....)
I wouldn't have done it publicly. I just would have used my red pen to passively-aggressively correct you, and then I would have passively-aggressively put the edited letter in your mailbox. And then I would have complained about you on the internet.
I discovered at one point during my job search that my resume had a typo in it- wrong verb tense or something. I was working with about 10,000 recruiters, so I sent them all the updated copy, but naturally they didn't all get around to using it, and I went to one interview where I saw the old resume across the desk, typo clearly circled. Oh well.
Well pup, this letter went THROUGH my boss, then the asst Sup, then the Sup, before it got mailed out. But the shit flows downhill, and I was the writer.
Interestingly (to me at least) is that nowadays, the stuff I write for public consumption just goes as exactly as I write it. Either they trust me, or its perfect, or they are too lazy to edit it.
I wish that the Penguins had done this during Pittsburgh's Pride Parade last year. The stupid cup certainly got around, every local person I know on Facebook seems to have a picture of them with the darn thing.
danf, that sort of thing is why I generally sanity check everything I write that's due for public consumption through either my work spouse (a tech writer who's also a cycling teammate of mine), or else give it to the intern to proof; whomever is closest at hand and least busy at the moment.
back on topic, thanks for posting this article TPS; this sort of thing makes me hope that homophobic bigotry is going the same way as racial bigotry (tho we're not all the way there yet either, we have made impressive progress)
Cool story. I even like the apostrophe. I mean, yeah, it's not my style, but who am I to say what consenting adults can or cannot do with their apostrophes?
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