Spelling story (or cautionary tale?)

braveangel2

Sorry to be a PW today. My coworker's funeral was this morning (I'm using the Internet to distract me), so this was on my mind.

Her name was Bridgette, but when the email went out about her to our staff, the boss spelled it, Bridget. The person in charge of gathering donations referred to that email and had the beautiful photo album engraved with the wrong name. Thank goodness she showed it to me before she wrapped it up. She had to regather donations and get to the store to get it engraved and to the family before the services.

jez_girl

Wow. It would be a fairly easy mistake to fix, but that's still horrible. Good thing you caught the mistake! Hugs!- funerals are never fun.

Kfran84

Wow, your boss is a jackass for not double-checking.

Same thing happened recently at my company, a woman died in a plane crash and her regional manager sent out the "It's my sad duty to inform you..." email and he spelled her name THREE different ways in the email. (one was obviously a typo, but still terrible). Awful.

strangebird

Oh dear, that could have been so awful. Thank goodness the mistake was caught in time.

Definitely a cautionary tale. I know I always double and triple check spellings when they're unusual, or I even suspect they might be. And, generally, I'm not dealing with personalizing for the deceased, when one should be even more cautious.

hewinked

Sorry to hear about your co-worker and good for you for making the correction!  We have a weird last name that is always mispronounced and always has to be spelled.  I vowed never to give our kids a hard first name or one with unique spelling (not that I'm a fan of that anyway).    But I've seen your co-worker's name spelled that way before.  Just one of those names with lots of spellings (like my name is Kelly, and I'm always asked if it's "just a y").

CrazyToast

People are so clueless these days.  That was AWFUL of your boss to not take the time to make sure your deceased coworker's name was spelled correctly.

My name is constantly misspelled by my coworkers.  It's odd, since you email people by putting in part of their first/last name and it pops up!  It is spelled correctly right in front of them and they're still clueless.

starlight8323

Your boss should have donated the money to fix it since it was his/her mistake in the first place. Bosses can be real jerks sometimes.