Friday Haiku: Office Décor

Why is it some people’s offices look like a board room, some look like a dorm room and some look like a sultan’s harem? Our VP of Production has antique cameras and framed posters from classic movies and jazz musicians. Our Director of New Business Development always has five lamps on, yet it still feels like dusk. My office has two people, a twelve-year-old couch, and a picture of my niece...taped to the wall. So this week’s haiku is dedicated to the office décor you love and love to hate.

Leather couch: awesome.
Hang in there kitty: cliché.
Three-foot droid: I’m scared.







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Captain Awesome, Project Specialist

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A Wrd About Prroofreeding and Tpyos.

We run a pretty tight ship at Renegade. Before any work goes out the door, there are no less than six layers of proofing, fact-checking, and approval it must filter through first. From an FSI in a local rag to national TV spots, we scrutinize everything; it's a veritable assembly line of Strunk & White-reading gorillas picking through the matted fur of grammar, typesetting, and Pantones.

Of course, the same cannot always be said for signs taped to office doors by busy web designers in the heat of hellish rush jobs.

When things like this happen, we do what any close-knit company does: email pictures of it to every contact in our address book and pummel the guilty party with insults like a boxer working over a big, illiterate heavy bag of shame.

M.M. McDermott, ACD/Copywriter/Exposer of Others' Shortcomings

P.S. Thanks to C-- for being the martyr for all of our proofreading sins. Sometimes, we know not what we write.

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