I used to work for an architectural firm. Not saying where. Not saying when. But it was a big firm. They built big stuff.
My boss was doing a report about the erection of a 50-foot steel deck for a big fancy schmancy company. They were so close to the deadline on this report that they told her to send it straight off to all the executives at fancy schmancy as soon as she finished it, and they left for the day.
My boss could have graded English professors' papers. She was a stickler for everything being right. But, being the boss, she mainly would proofread what everyone else worked on. Since it was a late job and she would have had to stay to proof anyway, she decided to just do the edits herself.
We came in the next morning to quite the hubbub. Oh my, laughter and anger mixed through the halls of the wing we were in. You see, when she was doing spellcheck, she somehow changed all occurrences of the word deck to dick, and the phones were ringing off the hooks with calls from fancy schmancy execs to joke about their favorite parts: the platform from which executives could watch the final part of the erection of the 50-foot steel dick, the importance of the tensile strength of materials used to erect a 50-foot steel dick, the number of workers it would take to achieve the erection of the 50-foot steel dick, the ceremony that would surround the celebration of having erected the 50-foot steel dick, and on and on and on.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
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8 comments:
That's hysterical!
That is awesome!
My favorite typo was when a former co-worker meant to write misconstrued and some how ended up with misconscrewed.
Paige. In what way do you mean 'awesome'?....;-)
I once sent an e-mail to a boss that said "You are a wnaker"
He said "Is that a typo?"
I said "Yes. I meant wanker"
Suffice to say I did not remain employed there....I was right though...;-)
typos are teh nenemy!
BB,
Wheh I worked for an engineering firm in Charleston people used to doodle along the edges on the original highway plans and one didn't get erased. Everyone including the DOT missed this pecker with balls on one page and we printed up about a zillion copies before someone caught it. By that time many had gone out to contractors for bidding. That was a Hell of a hoot!
rainy
Hey Beavis, she said Erection . . heh . . heh . . heh
no typos but i did send a email that was meant to go to a friend about my asshole religious nut cousin and ended up sending it to him....funny enough, he still talks to me.
OMG! Did she ever live that down?
Great story!
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