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My design team here at work falls under the Product Team umbrella, which encompasses all employees from design to engineering to quality assessment. This covers about 30 people between the LA, Beijing and San Francisco offices. The higher ups put out a request yesterday for everyone in Product to go through one of our sites and write a list of bugs and other fixes that needed to be made. Myself, my coworker and my boss (design team) were perusing each page together on my computer and I was in charge of typing up the word doc with the changes that needed to be made...

The three of us have the same sense of humor and were cracking jokes about how horrible one of the modules looked because it wasn't what we designed. For lack of a better phrase to describe the mess, I simply put "user module SUCKS" on the word doc... mentally telling myself that if it's in caps, I'd remember to go back and edit it.

So I get up from my desk and my coworker and boss take over the rest of the walk-through. They had already finished up by the time I came back and my boss asked me to send over the document so he can send it out. I zip it over and 10 seconds later, I get an email (as does the entire Product team) with our doc attached. Then la di daa... I surf the web and begin work on a new project when it hits me:

DID ANYONE DELETE WHAT I WROTE?!

Seeing as he was the last one editing the document, I asked my coworker and he began laughing uncontrollably. Uhh, okay, I'll take that as a no. I then IMed my boss and asked, and then I heard him laughing hysterically 2 seconds later. Grrrreeeaaaatttt.

On the bright side, we had a mini meeting this morning and nobody mentioned the blooper. +5 for landing the coolest job ever, -2416305879 for being a complete dumbass.

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