Re: Most embarasssing error (was Finding errors in manuals)

[Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net>]

What Suzette describes below also pretty much what occurred in the 
early 1980s at a chapter of a major social services agency in a large 
city I once lived in. (Musn't identify anybody in particular or else 
I'll get burned, eh?)

The PR department secretary was undyingly loyal to the PR director, 
but apparently was from and mostly educated in a certain Eastern 
European country and hadn't yet mastered all facets of the English 
language. Much to the chagrin of the PR staff writers and others in 
the building, the director kept giving her great performance 
appraisals and would not talk to the secretary about the weird, 
totally outrageous things she did or said when he was away.

Her end finally came after she did as Suzette describes below; she 
included the director's _instructions to her_ within the final draft 
of a letter he was having sent to the national headquarters. The 
national office staff knew the guy pretty well, so they just brushed 
it off. But HE had to finally cut the cord with Ms. Loyalty.

-- Ken (somewhere in the South)



At 02:44 PM 5/18/2007, Suzette Leeming wrote:
>I've seen situations similar to this. A few years ago, a group of people
>were coordinating responses to an RFP, writing in their responses and notes,
>etc. At the end of all that, it was given to a receptionist to type up.
>
>The RFP was completed, typed and sent out.  The receptionist had actually
>typed everything people had written, including the words "make something up
>for this" in a couple of sections.
>
>No surprise, the company didn't get the business.
>
>Suzette Leeming
>Stouffville, Ontario
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