Today, I got pulled off a hugely important project, all because I accidentally spelled "country" as "cuntry" in an email to our client. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML
Today, I was emailing my department about a huge meeting we’re going to have. I was also emailing back and forth with another colleague about office gossip. I absentmindedly replied to the wrong email. I hit reply all to the meeting e-mail, saying that the new supervisor of X department was "so fucking retarded." FML
Today, while at work at a maternity and baby clothes store, I was supposed to send out an email about our "Beat the Clock" sale. After it was sent to over 500 people, I realized that I'd misspelled the subject line. It read, "Beat the Cock Sale." FML
Today, I was so tired at work that I typed out "wherehouse" instead of "warehouse" in a document shared with my co-workers. It took me several seconds to realize why the heck the spell checker had underlined "wherehouse" in red. FML
Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML
Today, I sent a polite yet strongly-worded email to one of my corporate clients in which I expressed my irritation at being asked the same question by the same team for the 4th day in a row. I ended it with "Regards!" but accidentally swapped the 'g' with a 't'. FML
Today, I noticed that I've been spelling my company's name wrong in my email signature for over a year. FML
Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML
Today, I was fired. For "lack of attention to details", specifically spelling errors. My now ex-boss misspelled the name of his own company on my severance agreement. FML
Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML
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Steffi3 40
If it's so important, you should have triple checked. So, YDI
loueasy 23
Don't you know it's impolite to call clients a ****?
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Comments (54)
echarlotte 19
Seems like drastic measures over a typo. Sorry OP
remometol 16
It's unprofessional and someone who took the project seriously would've proofread. OP deserves it
cheeeksss 29
Even when I email my own parents I proofread it. Just out of habit, and it's a good one to use. So for something THIS important, I would have read everything over and over again until I felt 200% confident it is good enough to send. I'm sure OP didn't mean it, but this could have and should have been avoided.
RabbitOfAurora 28
I agree about drastic measures. Would thay have pulled him for any other typo? And I proof read stuff, but I can still look it over days and even hours later and find mistakes.
doodlecloud 27
Yeah but they didn't actually fire him. They just pulled him off that project and I guess put him on a different one, so I guess it's not really that drastic.
chinaski7628 32
It's possible OP was pulled from the project because the client complained or requested it. As a business, you want your client to trust and be comfortable with the team. It sounds like OP's boss/company understands it was an error—after all, OP could've been fired. As to the proofreading of your own work: I'm an English teacher. I've worked professionally as a copy editor. I have advanced degrees in linguistics and rhetoric. Proofreading your own work is extremely difficult, even if you're a superb editor, speller, and grammarian. Your brain knows what you meant, so it often overlooks minor typos, spelling errors, missing words, and transposed letters. It happens to the best and most diligent of us now and then. I can't even tell you how many letters to parents I've sent home with minor errors in them—and I proofread everything extensively and obsessively. I once managed to misspell my own name and didn't catch it until a student pointed it out.
R2Y2 22
It's not drastic, it's business.
loueasy 23
Don't you know it's impolite to call clients a ****?
melbournearsenal 18
Not everywhere, here in Australia we refer to our mates as *****!
coming back in the future 30
That's only cause they are.
RedPillSucks 33
don't be so testicular
bonbon1559 20
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Wow
_Peppermint_ 34
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Seems like they're just being a bunch of CUNTries.
epeeftw 16
You cunTRIED
HoboMeth 36
Everyone makes a typo at the wurst times
FMLollipop 8
kek
Steffi3 40
If it's so important, you should have triple checked. So, YDI
fatman1970 25
Agreed. If you couldn't be careful on an email, what could you do wrong on an important project?
False_Stupidity 42
Even a basic spell check would have picked up this mistake so yeah, OP deserves this one.
TheNewGuy03 29
Hmm, to do something that ridiculous over something they could have right-clicked and corrected is quite the overreaction.
MandieL 27
It sounds like the email had already been sent to the client, so it could not be corrected.
Lalala579121 28
Exactly, OP should have right-clicked and corrected it.
TheNewGuy03 29
Obviously, it was already sent. That's the whole point. My point is that they overreacted over something easily correctable. Unless they're completely doltish, then they could easily determine what OP was trying to say instead of lambasting him outright. It's literally ONE letter.
tranced_ 45
one small advice, always use word pad before you send a mail, it has an effective spell check :)
gobiteme2 34
Spell check is only effective if you miss spell a word, it doesn't if you select the wrong word for replacement
AmandaLe 11
country*