I work in a field that orders scientific supplies and materials. You need to check your unit measurements for [liquid]. This is my part of the job. I worked in a print shop back when it was common for presentations to use big overhead projectors, and the presenter would use old-school plastic sheets called transparencies that would be projected on to the wall. A customer called in. I figured I could save money on plastic sheets. It took a while to explain to them why that was impossible.
All the while, they insisted that I was just trying to get them to pay more than necessary. They had to come into the store for me to show them a sample before they understood the problem. From then on, we would all use this as a prank call on new employees.
We got this new guy, and I called him with the prank call. Umโฆ I guess it would be a single-sided price plus single-sided customer-stock price? Printing double-sided on an overhead transparency slide? We can print double-sided. I was his supervisor at the time, and as much as we liked to have fun, I had to stop and admit the prank and actually take him over to the machine and walk him through why that was impossible.
We had a very nice โ but spelling-challenged โ administrative assistant in the office I worked in several years ago. Part of our work was federally funded, and we had to submit a quarterly summary document of key deliverables that the office assistant would cull from our worklogs and staff meetings.
When our boss discovered this, he lost it and required that she use spell check for everything. But the misspellings intensified.
