Our head office is in Scotland, so we get the occasional "outwith" in our internal notices, which is a bit of a rarity down here.
Some stuff doesn't make much sense in any dialect though.
You'd think that somewhere between the concept and the printing, someone would have looked at this and thought, "Let's rewrite it in plain English".
Anyone else got any ?
Believe it or not sometimes you just have to say the obvious
Sad isn't it !!
Alas, between the concept and the printing falls the shadow.
The current notice at work exhorting us to maintain the urinal flusher button pressed for a whole minute is irritating, though. Apparently it's "for our health", though quite who would be drinking from a urinal is a mystery to me. Alternatively, they could just fix the flush mechanism.
My organisation recruits from 35 countries, 34 of which don't have English as a first language. They still wouldn't create something that bad.
i worked at M&S whilst at college as a trolley & bag boy. in my spare time - of which i had lots - i'd go around with a red marker pen correcting the spelling and grammar on the staff notices.
i got a warnimg once from my manager because i had corrected her bosses notice and had been caught on camera.
each time her boss saw me after that i'd smirk at her.
Maybe not quite in the same vein, but a few years ago this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/thus_cw_challenger_disaster/
happened where I work.
I have absolutely no idea whatsoever who sent the photo in:)
[i worked at M&S whilst at college as a trolley & bag boy. in my spare time - of which i had lots - i'd go around with a red marker pen correcting the spelling and grammar on the staff notices.
i got a warnimg once from my manager because i had corrected her bosses notice and had been caught on camera.
each time her boss saw me after that i'd smirk at her.
]
That's irony - yes?
We used to have a fascilities manager who would send out some messages in text speak and others with such a variety of grammatical and spelling errors in, it was hard to understand what she was going on about.
But the one that has stuck in my mind for around ten years now was along the lines of....
"There is a perturbing piece of wire in the rear car park, please watch your step"
It certainly had me worried. (I think she meant protruding)
Oh, and this one at my current place of work (sorry for the poor photo).
cleaning staffs by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr
Doing my aprenticeship, a lecturer drew a large circle round a black hot casting just knocked out of the sand casting box, he wrote OT next to it, one of our fellow students, said whats OT mean and proceeded to pick up the HOT casting, he got burnt.
at least they can spell facilities 
This beauty was in the corridor the other day
I have a theory.
Once of a time, professional signwriters corrected their customers' requests. They eventually got so sick of halfwits bellowing "that's not what I ordered" that they now print exactly what is asked of them, irrespective of how stupid it is. Then at least if they get complaints they can go "well, look."
"Caution scolding water" printed large on notices above each sink in the Gents.
I washed my hands very thoroughly, but quickly, as a result.
A high percentage of my staff (and across the industry) are dyslexic - I must remember this next time I ask a certain member of staff to re-label the racks, bags etc in the kit store.
High Ropes Resque Bag is still written across the rucksack a year later....
Bargain! How much for two?!
at least they can spell facilities
Also,
I think you mean "semi-literate."
HTH.
(-:
Kato, the small non sexualised generic person on the plastic a board has no shoes , feet, handsor even a name badge.
Our heating failed at work. It was due to a leek in the pump. I bet the plumber was surprised.
Not a sign as such, but I give you:
That must either be intentional or dyslexia.
That must either be intentional or dyslexia.
Neither sadly. Just Gateshead.
i worked at M&S whilst at college as a trolley & bag boy. in my spare time - of which i had lots - i'd go around with a red marker pen correcting the spelling and grammar on the staff notices.i got a warnimg once from my manager because i had corrected her bosses notice and had been caught on camera.
each time her boss saw me after that i'd smirk at her.
9 red marks needed there.
of which i had lots
At least he knows not to dangle his prepositions though.
It was due to a leek in the pump.
This is bloody funny, I am still chuckling 
I can't wait until the morning, the signs at work are quality product , mass of poor spelling 
One of the project engineer's spelling is so bad he we had to pull him up on it, the customers business is worth 2.5m per annum and he is the first point of contact, they were livid 
I just wish I could publish the email hehe
I make it 10 red marks needed.
Actually, maybe 11.
Had a little giggle at the No Fuss Endurance DH race, after I noticed the race number boards had spelled it "Endrance"
On a similar note, Kenda had giant ad banners at SITS that said:
"Kenda Tires"
Does it? Well probably best to avoid them then.
Perhaps not the best cultural confusion to make at a 24hr race.
i worked at M&S whilst at college as a trolley & bag boy. in my spare time - of which i had lots - i'd go around with a red marker pen correcting the spelling and grammar on the staff notices.i got a warnimg once from my manager because i had corrected her bosses notice and had been caught on camera.
each time her boss saw me after that i'd smirk at her.
The internet, helping stupid people advertise their stupidity to the entire world since 1994 (or thereabouts)
To give you a warning for correcting a senior person's incorrect grammar is just immature and a sign of poor management and culture. Shame they didn't thank you for improving the quality of their communications. On the other hand, was the warning for your own poor grammar?
samuri - Member
Oh, and this one at my current place of work (sorry for the poor photo).
still no locker then
Man, that buy one one get free properly tickled me.
At my old job there was a sign with an arrow pointing at a "valve for realising". Used to make me smile every time, seemed exestential in a comedic way.
In the wife's Moo Ban (village) in Bangkok there is a life support truck for when you get knocked off your motor bike.
It reads on the the back
Live Subsport - I will surely want to watch curling when I'm lying dying on the road.
Not quite the same but in a similar vein we had an MD - he didn't last long - who once got his secretary to send a memo round to every member of staff about wastage and the amount of rubbish like pens, rulers, Tipp-ex and other crap in their desk drawers. This memo about wastage was written on a word-processor then printed on two pages with the second page having just the three last lines.
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