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Subject:RE: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume From:Tammy VanBoening <Tammy -dot- VanBoening -at- netRegulus -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:21:16 -0700
> Or even the single digit that you miss on spell check and/or that makes it
> through edits, but the word is still spelled correctly. We had a member of
> our local STC chapter tell this funny story at a recent meeting. (This
> sounded like an urban legend, but. .. )
>
> For an install guide (that dealt w/ some hardware, as in the Home Depot
> kind), she had "tighten the wench" instead of "tighten the wrench". . .
this
> of course made it through spell check, got missed by her editors, and went
> out to a bunch of hard core oil rig/derrick worker types - They loved it
to
> say the least, but. . .
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Senior Technical Writer
> NetRegulus, Inc.
> 303-925-7721 (Direct)
> 303-925-7700 (Main)
> 303-662-9320 (Fax)
> tammy -dot- vanboening -at- netregulus -dot- com
> www.netregulus.com
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:10 PM
> > To: TECHWR-L
> > Subject: RE: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume
> >
> >
> >
> > To them, they cared about that single character typo the same
> > way you might
> > care about certain single digit typos in your annual salary
> > amount or hourly
> > rate.
> >
> >> >
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