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How not to proofread your work

Posted by Fired Fred on January 17, 2008 5:08 PM
Another brief part of my day, spent drilling through the great big Intarweb to find you some sort of firing story that doesn't stem from something terrifying or inflammatory. Seriously, I've skipped blogging some stuff that would make you despair for the whole human race.

Sometimes I find something that's unintentionally funny. Take this reporter in Hawaii, phoning it in by cutting and pasting a list called Top 10 Ways to Get Fired.

Notice every item in the list is numbered 1? If you scroll down to number 8, I mean 1, I mean, ah never mind, you see "forget to double-check your figures." Does that include making sure your list is numbered right?

Hawaii. Too distracting. I can relate to the brain melt, but really, if you're going to borrow at least do it properly. Forget to double-check your figures much? It happens.

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Francis

Darn! It looks like they've fixed it. Proofing after the fact is not nearly as effective, eh, Fred?

Posted on: January 18, 2008 1:27 PM

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