http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5814092.html
**Ed Patrick of Taylor Publishing, which printed the book, said his company is responsible for the errors and will provide free stickers printed with the correct names.
“It happens all the time, every year,” Patrick said. “Look at any yearbook in the country.”**
Yanno what? That’s no excuse.
People oversee computers for a reason – and misspelled names in a high school yearbook is far from benign. The angst and anguish suffered by teens still in the grip of finding themselves can be devastating, and if we take a long term view of it, how will these easily corrected errors affect future acts such as criminal investigations into missing persons or when those stickers fall off and grandchildren can’t find their grandparents’ photos? It doesn’t take that much effort to ensure a name is spelled correctly in a yearbook.
This kind of sloppiness is pervasive. Mr. Patrick should be seriously reprimanded for coping to the “everyone else does it” plea. It didn’t work on parents, why should it work in businesses?
