The "Do people not edit" thread

[amc80]

Just when I had recovered from having to see the horrible flyer posted around work, I got another fun one today. (For those who missed it, somewhere I posted this flyer that was distributed around work. It contained several errors...it was painful to look at.)

So, today's email was distributed company wide, which means it went to a few thousand people. This was the opening section:


What’s happening around the Las Vegas’ Campus?
Cublic Audits
Starting in November, the Las Vegs Safety Committee created a Cublicle Safety Action Group. The purpose of this team is to audit the cublicle environmental, make opbservations, make recommendation for violation observed, and communicate with management staff.

facepalm

 

[ksinger]

Audit? How does one audit a cublicle?? Cublic audits?

Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts?? (I wonder how many will get this reference!)

Huh?

 

[JewelFreak]

If I weren't so tired from getting the tree half decorated, I'd think of something to say. I'm speechless as it is. HOW can anyone let this stuff go out? What kind of impression of the business do similar outside communications give? Except, the recipients probably don't know anything is wrong either!

--- Laurie

 

[Enerchi]

...it boggles the mind...

We get similar stuff sent around at our office - not so much emails from 'the big guns', but flyers and such, trying to encourage staff spirit and participation... blah blah blah (you can tell, I'm so enthusiastic it just jumps off the page, right?? ) but they are often of this caliber as well. I agree, amc, do people not read what they write??? Is there no spell check on their computer?

(but I must confess - I will type on my ipad/iphone and hit send before I realize the auto correct has gone and substituted something obscure and random, that it now makes whatever I was saying, jibberish!! My DH calls it "avatar" - as in, "are you speaking to me in blue Avatar?" )

 

[Deactivated member 42515]

Ugh, I don't think I could do any worse even if I was trying to misspell everything. TERRRRRRIBLE!

I have a coworker that misspells everything all the time. She writes Janet as Junit, she ordered a salad and wrote saled, and even chicken, she spells cheekin. ARGH! BLOWS MY MIND!

 

[VRBeauty]

"make recommendation for violation observed" makes me think the author is not a native English speaker- which, by the way does not give them a "pass" in my book.

I put the blame here on the sender's manager. My personal belief is that anytime you send out a mass missive like this one, you have to make sure a second set of eyes has looked it over. It's poor management, or just plain laziness to allow someone to send out a mass memo that hasn't been proofed by someone other than the author.

 

[Octavia]

I saw a mistake on the sticker setting out rates for DC taxis today. I wish I could remember what it was, but it definitely made me wonder if anyone competent actually read it before they plastered it in the windows of thousands of cabs around the city.

 

[hawaiianorangetree]

Reads like ESL to me.

 

[amc80]

Reads like ESL to me.

I agree. There are some other lines in there that definitely sound ESL-ish, such as this:

Please refer to POL-CS10 for some limitations, when discarding of waste.

Still not an excuse, and all the better reason to, at a minimum, run spell check!

 

[Puppmom]

That's so bad that you can barely tell what they're attempting to communicate.

We recently had an announcement with the word office in it. All of the flyers posted around our campus had 3 Fs in offices. THREE. They were all over the place...

 

[Amber St. Clare]

What language was that?