[Closed] Semi literate notices at work.

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).

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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

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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 [i]exactly [/i]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?!

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[i]at least they can spell facilities [/i]

😉

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:
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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:

[b]"Kenda Tires"[/b]

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.

wee-al
Just read that whilst having a slurp of coffee - ended up with a big coffee/snot dangler out of my nose.
Still laughing now, think thats the best thing i ever read

Sorry, don't have a photo of it but a market stall in Horsham last Christmas offered:-
[b]
Ladie's Perfume[/b]

and...it seems a bit unsporting (not to mention OT) to start posting bad translations ("Engrish") but this is one of my favourites....

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At an edinburgh housing estate where I was filming a few years ago "No Ball Games Prohibited"

When setting up a local rival to Ikea always check that your chosen trendy name really translates properly and reflects the product you are flogging:

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Don't have a photo of it but there was a sign in Dentdale that said:

Slow

Lams on't rode

Teaboy pretty sure I've seen that sign (or a another farmer writes just as well), was it written on a flat piece of rock and stood up by the roadside just before some trees/bushes? I thought it was somewhere near derwent but I could be mistaken.

Bit cheeky mocking foreign signs written in english, especially when there's so many home grown screw ups.

(don't go critiquing my spelling/grammar I don't write signs)

On a flat piece of rock, stood up by the roadside, near Cowgill (just by the Kingsdale turnoff).

We might have stumbled across an underground industry in ironic semi-literate farmers' signs.

Created by a farmer who said 'I know lads, if we make ourselves look illiterate we might get more EU grants...'

(Runs for cover)

Vaguely relevant (Yorkshire) joke...

An old Yorkshire lady died and her family pondered long and hard about what to put on her tombstone. She hadn’t been greatly loved nor had she made much of a mark in life. The only thing her family could think of was that she did, occasionally, go to church. Someone had a brainwave. ‘How about “She were thine.”’ ‘Aye,’ said everyone else, ‘That’ll do!’ So, the stonemason was instructed and a week later he proudly displayed his handiwork. The family were dismayed to find that instead of saying “She were thine.” the stone read, “She were thin.” ‘Hey up, lad,’ they said, ‘the ‘e’s missing.’ So the stonemason promised to sort it out. A week later the family assembled again. The ‘e’ was there, all right. This time it read, “Ee, she were thin.”

I get emails from a bank we use full of non english words, made up words and spelling mistakes.

Quite how you can send an email with spelling mistakes is beyond me - just tick the box that gets it to spell check the damm thing before sending FFS !

I get emails from a bank we use full of non [s]e[/s][b]E[/b]nglish words, made up words and spelling mistakes

Oh, teh ironing!
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We might have stumbled across an underground industry in ironic semi-literate farmers' signs

At a place where I worked I had a sign on my desk that said 'Chairman of the Bored', a manager walked over and pointed out my spelling mistake...then realised...