Girls Talk - A Chuque In My Books

Misspelling? Where?

Gosh, I haven't had one of those in ages. Not that I have not been meaning to, it's just that spell check always stops me dead in my track. Before I can even blink, it highlights the misspelled word and I have to grudgingly correct it. Frankly, I am more worried about AutoComplete than misspellings but that will be for another post. Hehehe.....

Anyway, there was a time though when spell checks were not yet that popular and were not always turned on. I remember when I first started working 15 years ago (was it that long already? I think I'm near retirement age now), there was an incident with a misspelled word.

I was doing bank reconciliations on Lotus 1-2-3 (harhar, MS Excel wasn't quite there yet). I was so eager to impress that I tried to do the work as fast as I can. I printed bank reconciliations one after the other, month after month, client after client. All these in one afternoon.

Showed them to my boss when I was done and she was quite impressed. Although she did point out that I might be referring to outstanding cheques and not outstanding chuques (she pronounced them "chuks", like the Nintendo nunchuk). I was a little embarrassed but I thought, hey, that's the price of speed of light. At least it did not go out to be seen by the clients. 

This is my share for Girls Talk this week.