Tuesday, January 08, 2008

No Habla Ingles

Work-related tale of incompetence for your enjoyment!


Today it was discovered that since January 3rd of 2008, we have run a commercial (for a payday loan company, just so ya know) 18 times. The problem is that the commercial which ran was the Spanish-language version.

That means that 18 times the wrong language spot (complete with Spanish text on the screen, so it wasn't just audio) aired and not a single master control operator (whose job it is to monitor on-air product) noticed.
But it was even more times than that, because the operator should have noticed the error when they dubbed it into the server to begin with. So there were actually at the very least 19 times to catch this error.

My idea (which was not met with much joy) was that the client just pay the 2700 dollar bill in pesos.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Your solution is perfectly, ironically poetic. Ergo, it must be rejected.