[Oorang]

Had a board meeting coming up. The boss asked a co-worker to write up a new Mission Statement and gave her the draft. This was a "rush" as the board members would be arriving any minute. When she was done she was to make copies for all and distribute them to all board members in the conference room. She got them done and usually I would proof her work before it went anywhere. No time for that. She handed them to all and she was so proud of her work. At the top she had put "Omission Statement". Didn't go over real well.

Same co-worker. She asked for my recipe for split pea soup that I had brought for lunch that day. Said I didn't really have a recipe. Just throw split peas, ham, etc. in the pot. A few days later she said she had bought 4 cans of peas to make the soup and wow, those peas are hard to split!

[Ichneumon]

At the top she had put "Omission Statement". Didn't go over real well.

It could be worse. About ten years ago I read an account of how a large, famous-name bank (I forget which one now) had set up a form letter to be sent to its biggest depositers asking them if they wanted to subscribe to a special service. However, due to a programming error, instead of each recipients' name being substituted at the top of the letter intended for them, the original "test" name was left in. So all the bank's best customers got letters that began, "Dear Rich Bastard:"...

[JLO]

"Said I didn't really have a recipe. Just throw split peas, ham, etc. in the pot. A few days later she said she had bought 4 cans of peas to make the soup and wow, those peas are hard to split!"

LOL - thanks for a good laugh! She didn't REALLY, did she? Please tell me she was just joshin. I find this story waaaay too funny!

The Omission statement story was a good one too, but I guess I can maybe relate a little too much with that one, lol ;-)