I work for the Public Defender. Guess what word our IT people took out of the spellcheck database?
Not sure if spell check was the culprit, but a secretary once put the word “eroticism” in place of “neuroticism” in a report I was preparing for a middle school student. There was a Neuroticism scale in an old personality test I was using at the time.
Hmm, what is it that you’re measuring again…?
So you made monlocks out of yourselves?
Sometimes I get lazy.
Ok, that’s not true. Sometimes I get arrogant and annoyed that I have to check my work.
And it’s gonna come back to bite me in the ass, because I will eventually send out something regarding Cliton instead of Clinton and cuntry instead of country.
A coworker once saw an email that apologized for the “incontinence.”
I thought I had heard all the oldies but goodies but I missed this one. That is pretty funny (in a twisted kind of way of course).
Well, if someone messed on my office floor, I sure as hell would expect an apology at the least!!! 
According to my urban planning professor last year, I’m studying “pubic policy”.
Out of curiosity, where is this? I’ve only heard it as a pejorative for “Jew.” Never realized this might be regional.
In the United States, kike is a particularly nasty slur against Jews. It’s regarded as being so vulgar that no Jew I know or have ever met will use it to describe himself, even jokingly. I’ll call myself “hebe” and will roll my eyes at “sheeny” and some others, but I would never call myself by that term and would never even think to use it with another person.
My boss once sent a memo about backing up our data. “Everyone should have a floppy dick that they use daily.”
Got this anecdote forwarded from my mom, from a mutual friend of ours (definition linked for those unfamiliar with the word in question):
We once sent our office assistant to an HR luncheon to take some notes on behalf of the VP. The VP later showed me the notes and was very confused about the reference to a website called “www.rapemyemployer.com” - last I heard, the assistant had left the company to study holistic surgery. :smack:
“guilty”?
Nothing beats the old Dilbert comic strip, where one of Dilbert’s co-workers is mad at the pointy haired boss
Co-Worker) And for your informaiton my name is MYRON not MORON. I suggest you be more careful when you use spell check
Pointy Haired Boss) I have spellcheck?
Back in my IT days I received a call from a distraught admin for the president of the company. She needed help with the recall function in Outlook, as she did this not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES. At least it was an internal email and everybody could laugh it off.
I saw some minutes recently that referred to “necessary repairs to a support bean in the parkade.”
I guess that’s what happens when you send Slow Jack out for building materials.
This is not a spell check story, but I nonetheless find it quite amusing.
When I was in maybe 3rd grade our classroom had a sink in the back, and above the sink was a soap dispenser. One day it ran out of soap. The teacher asked one of the kids to make a sign that said “soap” and tape it to the dispenser so that the janitor would know to fill it. The kid did it and stepped back to admire his handiwork. I looked at it and pointed out that he wrote “soup” instead. He found this to be quite funny, and we started making jokes about “Ha ha, fill it with chicken noodle” and stuff.
The teacher was not amused. How dare I make fun of this kid for what was probably an honest mistake? Couldn’t I see that he felt really badly about it? Um, he’s laughing. I’d say he feels pretty good about it.
Heh heh. Soup.
I want to change my user name to Support Bean.
You’d confuse people, though–are you a description or a command?
Ha ha! I’ll never tell!!