Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Are they really worth 6%???

I am stuck proof reading Real Estate and Homes this week. We have to look over every page of this 400+ page book every other week to make sure have the correct pictures with the correct descriptions and look for typos. We used to retype all of the text on the pages, but we currently have this toy where we can just "flow" the text submitted by the realtor (from email or disc) into the ad. It's pretty bad but not uncommon to find a mistake that we typed in, but its amazing how bad the mistakes are that COME FROM THE REALTOR. I know they abbreviate stuff, but these mistakes are horrendous and could have been easily found if they would have just read it once before submitting it. I am not sure if the mistake comes from the realtor or from a secretary in the office, but dang. I am not sure if they don't care since they know we proof read it and they think we will find and correct their mistakes, but it just annoying that they couldn't take the 30 seconds to proof read their own crap. They are making all of the money from selling these houses!!! And of course the realtor will be the first one screaming for a refund if a mistake actually get published in the magazine. I would love to talk to these yahoos and give them the old G.I.G.O. discussion.

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