Who proofs the emails?

[bearpaw]

This is a beautiful time of year, and we're so excited about 2016. We have many new tools to share with you, and we can't to see what you do with them! [eek]

 

[Ironmantrev]

Haha, I saw that too. It is a pet peeve of mine.

In my experience, it doesn't matter how many times you proof read something, or even how many different people proof read it, something like this ( well maybe not this blatant) always seems to sneak by and go to print. That has been my experience anyway for the companies I have worked for. It drives me nuts every time I see it.

It typically happens when we were rushing to get something to print. Maybe the same thing happened at Festool as they were rushing to get such a "great" promotion out to us

 

[Shane Holland]

About a decade ago, before I worked for Festool but worked for a different Festool dealer, I accidentally transposed two digits in our 800 number. The wrong number was for a phone sex hotline.  [blink] Whoops.

The problem with emails... once you hit send, it can't be reeled back in.

Mistakes happen.

 

[peter halle]

It happens.  Happens here all the time even by the most intelligent  and most highly-educated.

Peter

 

[Ironmantrev]

Not to mention all of us who rely on our machines to spell check, etc. for us. While it is nice to have, there is nothing better than going over it one more time before you hit send.  Predictive text on my apple products I find is always playing games on me. One day when I am in a hurry, it is going to get me into big trouble. As its been said, stuff happens.

 

[flair woodworks]

Sometimes I do live Tweet-Alongs, where I detail my building process step by step live on Twitter (@FlairWoodworks).  I was working late into the night and was sharing a picture captioned:

"I'm ready to drill these two holes. "

Fortunately, I was in the habit of checking before posting and noticed that I had missed one if the "l" s.

 

[sancho57]

About a decade ago, before I worked for Festool but worked for a different Festool dealer, I accidentally transposed two digits in our 800 number. The wrong number was for a phone sex hotline.  [blink] Whoops.

The problem with emails... once you hit send, it can't be reeled back in.

Mistakes happen.

Back in the day when folks used pagers had a boss who was well very unliked , he got all sorts of pages to strange and perverted websites at all hrs of the night..

I don't know much more then that

 

[Birdhunter]

I learned a great proof reading trick as a very young engineer. Read the document backwards.

 

[Brice Burrell]

Sometimes I do live Tweet-Alongs, where I detail my building process step by step live on Twitter (@FlairWoodworks).  I was working late into the night and was sharing a picture captioned:

"I'm ready to drill these two holes. "

Fortunately, I was in the habit of checking before posting and noticed that I had missed one if the "l" s.

Yeah, just think how embarrassing that would have been to post "dril" on your Twitter. [wink] [big grin]

 

[TylerC]

That was me. I broke my #1 rule of email marketing with it: Never write an email the same day that you send it. I'm trying to find someone internal to be my proofreader, because proofing your own work is useless.

It's far from the worst that I've seen (or been a part of). I used to work at a music magazine. The month before I arrived, the put a big mentioned ON THE COVER OF THE MAGAZINE about the "Black Eyed Pead". Yikes.

I also used to work for several politicians. A colleague of mine (unless it was me and I've selectively changed the actual memory) sent an email to a politician's list with it appearing to come from a different politicians. That was a bad day.

 

[peter halle]

LOL.  Welcome to the FOG!  [poke]

Ptere

 

[oil trader]

That was me. I broke my #1 rule of email marketing with it: Never write an email the same day that you send it. I'm trying to find someone internal to be my proofreader, because proofing your own work is useless.

It's far from the worst that I've seen (or been a part of). I used to work at a music magazine. The month before I arrived, the put a big mentioned ON THE COVER OF THE MAGAZINE about the "Black Eyed Pead". Yikes.

I also used to work for several politicians. A colleague of mine (unless it was me and I've selectively changed the actual memory) sent an email to a politician's list with it appearing to come from a different politicians. That was a bad day.

Don't sweat it, not sure why anyone would even bother to post anything about it, tbh.