Shit men. I made my first big boo boo at work and its gonna cost me big time. And at this point I think I should eat my words. Or something like that. After going on and on about the Island going pubic and all, I went and did a number on something I read. I have decided to stop preaching about my holier-than-thou virtues and face the music.
The only place I never double-check what I write for spellings and grammar issues is right here. My blog. Its my space and I just type what I feel hoping that the emotion or point gets across irrespective of the hurried typing and the thoughts that flow even faster than I type. And then there’s the work thing…
In the middle of the many nice things I get to do like write kinky copy (that would be the text component of any ad and is not always kinky), come up with cool ideas for brands and smoke pot and work there is one thing that I have to do that I despise with a vengeance. And that is to spell check things before they leave the agency and head out for publication.
One hurried evening I went ahead and just scanned through something, signed it and sent it off to the newspapers for publication. And guess what? I passed over a typo. The word ”challenged” read as chanlleged and I missed it. And that my friends, in the advertising world is a bigger than big boo boo. Probably means I’m going to get my head chewed off, get a disappointed shake-of-the-head from my boss who has loved my work thus far and be asked to pay for part of the ad. Yikes.
Crossing my fingers, toes and buttcheeks that it won’t come to that. Please cross along with me? Boss will be in any moment now… 
That’s not as bad as “Dialogue” instead of “Dialog” on the cover page of a Busniess Mag. Good luck and let us know how goes.. Maybe the good karma you did earlier will help you out.
good luck! I have been in a similar situation…
Good Luck. Fingers Crossed
We journos on the otherhand, have sub editors and editors who go through our work!
Ooops…Keep fingers crossed and hope for the best
Good Luck
Ok. Spoke to the boss. She was nicer than nice. Was just concerned about the reputation of the agency. Said there maybe consequences to it but she didn’t want to make me suffer them. So lets see. I’m a lot less stressed now. Its friday evening after all!
There you go, I would have been surprised if your boss chewed you out. A mistake is a mistake, now you just have to make extra efforts that it never happens again!
Glad that things worked out!
Good for you have a great weekend!
Forgive the ignorant plebian who does not know anything about the ad industry in SL but wouldn’t a phone call to the printers have solved the problem?
Phew… glad it wasn’t as bad as you thought… hope it blows over soon….
it was a newspaper ad that got published with the mistake choknuti, so there’s nothing 2 b done
Left a comment earlier… Dunno where it went…
Anyway, what I wanted to say was that we have subbies, who check for spellies… And we are then safe…