Today I Learned
there are good people at work who will hear you and help you, if you are lucky enough to work with proofreaders.
This has been true everywhere I've worked so thank you, proofreaders past and present.
posted by La Misma at 9:01 PM
8 Comments:
No one ever thanks proofreaders! Thank you for thanking a noble profession.
Before I worked with other proofreaders, I had never met anyone else who was interested in and willing to debate proper hyphen usage. Different schools of thought on the subject. Ditto the serial comma.
And I had load of free time.
I sometimes marvel that some days, I would go into work and do 1 hour of work, total, for the entire day.
So much time to aimlessly read web pages and take care of errands and chat about movies and music.
Where are you working these days?
9:42 PM
Proofreaders! The unsung heroes of all media.
More to our purposes, though, they tend to be some of the smartest, funniest, most interesting folks you'll ever meet. Ironically, in a career (ack, can it even be called that?) that's so ineffably modest and behind the scenes.
I've been working at Ogilvy but it's been slowing down and suddenly? It's dried up. So here is the soup line issue again.
11:45 AM
Oops, I should have said the unsung heroes of all print media.
1:44 PM
I agree with you -- and it hasn't been the suckiest way to earn a living. Although I think they should do a gag episode of "Dirtiest Jobs" on proofreading -- it'd be hysterical.
4:48 PM
I don't know that show -- are there close-ups of writhing worms and stuff like that?
7:14 AM
yeah -- actually I think it's called Dirty Jobs -- people who drive around picking up roadkill (hey, it's a government job) and other ookey stuff like that. proofreading is a step up from there and filled with either interesting people or lunatics, I've found. I object to the way our job is considered by employers -- we're mildly retarded complainers and no one understands what it that we do precisely so any of our concerns are completely ignorable.
7:11 AM
what it is (the proofreader left out the word IS!!!!!!)
7:12 AM
True dat. I think we're seen as annoyances though we are actually paid to be that way. Few people seem truly grateful for the catching of the mistakes and the saving of the faces.
10:39 AM
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