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# Can someone make an image to illustrate the 'word related fuck-ups' thread we did on Twtter?
It went really well - loads of funny replies and I've collected up the stronger ones in a page.

Could do with an top image - 1200x630 that would work when the page is shown on Facebook / Twitter.

Yeah I could do one myself but I dunno - thought someone might like to be involved?

b3ta.com/blog/work-related-fuck-ups/
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sat 5 May 2018, 11:06, archived)
# Freddie's first day as a decorator?


sorry couldn't see how to post on da link
(I helped save b3ta! The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Sat 5 May 2018, 12:41, archived)
# posting here is great
that's what I meant
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sat 5 May 2018, 13:15, archived)
# this do?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 5 May 2018, 13:00, archived)
# thanks
bunged in and updated
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sat 5 May 2018, 13:15, archived)
# What are we, your...oh.
(macroscian (1 like), Sat 5 May 2018, 13:18, archived)
# Somewhere I have what is possibly the last surviving copy of an email a friend sent to all the EMEA senior managers of a multinational company
in which he addressed them as "Dear f*ckers"...
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sat 5 May 2018, 14:08, archived)
# How satisfying
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 5 May 2018, 15:55, archived)
# Cheeky Fucker
(Paint! Another one lost, Sat 5 May 2018, 20:47, archived)
#
"*Word*-related fuck-ups"? Did you get one of your works wrong there, Rob?

Try asking the paper-clip; it knows....
(judge62 Captcha must die!!, Sat 5 May 2018, 21:07, archived)
# looks like it
although it's not the best anecdote "I made a typo on a message board"
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sat 5 May 2018, 21:31, archived)
#
OK then,

Writing a letter to a customer which ended with the sentence:

"Please wait until after the end of March so that the final position can be determined"

and it coming out as:

"Please wait until after the end of March so that the final solution can be determined"

The customer was German...

Another one which could have been worse (in at least two different ways):

"I have sent a copy of this letter to your clint"

A colleague of mine ended a letter to a customer in his seventies:

"Please accept my apologies for any incontinence caused"
(judge62 Captcha must die!!, Sun 6 May 2018, 21:13, archived)