Cost of error
Cost of error
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- elahon0
At my old newspaper job, a co-worker and I were playing a prank on the proofer (with a LIVE ad, an obit that was running the next day). I used this image (cropped so just the head):
And changed the name on the obit to something obviously fake like Richard R. Richards. I was about THIS CLOSE to changing it to Deady McMaggotface, but I went with the other one. We all got a laugh out of it, I changed the picture back to the real person. But....... forgot to change the name. If I had used Deady McMaggogface, I would have gotten shitcanned. Luckily Richard R. Richards was "just a mistake". Customer was pissed, but it could have been a lot worse.
Total cost was just the cost of running the ad again the next week.