Home or office? Please stay home.
On the subway this morning, I was treated to an ad that really made me worry about work/life balance in America today. I managed to get a picture with my cell phone:
Can you read that blurry writing? Yes, under the nice, pretty pregnant woman it says "Save $10.00 on your first home or office delivery". Home or office?... home or office? Shudder.
Sometimes I think I've missed my calling as a proofreader / editor.
(Edit: In case you have not missed such a calling, the ad makes it sound like there's a good chance the woman is going to give birth at the office. Delivery, get it? And women, I beg of you, don't do this. It's just not work-appropriate, unless perhaps you are an OB/GYN.)
Luckily, someone in the subway system was on the job. This Peapod ad (for it is a Peapod ad we are mocking, and I don't think they were making a "pea in the pod" type pun) appears with a grade and some advice for the ad-writers directly to its right.
D. WATCH YOUR STEP.
Of course, part of me is afraid that if I did have a proofreading or advertising job I would take too much pleasure in mishaps like this to correct them or let a near-miss actually miss. I might be the very person to slip this kind of thing into a grocery ad, or refer to customers of plus-size clothing as "a large and growing segment of the population." (That's one of my favorites of all time, from a research article when I worked in retail analytics.)
To round out this visual amusement-fest, here is a photo-comic about our new President that made me laugh today:
Oh sure, he is closing down Guantanamo and all that, but now we know how he blows off steam in between those things... laughing at kitty-cats. Barack, you meanie!
Can you read that blurry writing? Yes, under the nice, pretty pregnant woman it says "Save $10.00 on your first home or office delivery". Home or office?... home or office? Shudder.
Sometimes I think I've missed my calling as a proofreader / editor.
(Edit: In case you have not missed such a calling, the ad makes it sound like there's a good chance the woman is going to give birth at the office. Delivery, get it? And women, I beg of you, don't do this. It's just not work-appropriate, unless perhaps you are an OB/GYN.)
Luckily, someone in the subway system was on the job. This Peapod ad (for it is a Peapod ad we are mocking, and I don't think they were making a "pea in the pod" type pun) appears with a grade and some advice for the ad-writers directly to its right.
D. WATCH YOUR STEP.
Of course, part of me is afraid that if I did have a proofreading or advertising job I would take too much pleasure in mishaps like this to correct them or let a near-miss actually miss. I might be the very person to slip this kind of thing into a grocery ad, or refer to customers of plus-size clothing as "a large and growing segment of the population." (That's one of my favorites of all time, from a research article when I worked in retail analytics.)
To round out this visual amusement-fest, here is a photo-comic about our new President that made me laugh today:
Oh sure, he is closing down Guantanamo and all that, but now we know how he blows off steam in between those things... laughing at kitty-cats. Barack, you meanie!
posted by Rachel at
1:41 PM
4 Comments:
It took me quite a while to figure out what you were shuddering at. I guess maybe I wouldn't make a good ad copy editor. Seemed like you were just saying pregnant women should stay home, or office people shouldn't get pregnant, or something.
I have edited the post to be more clear. I am NOT saying pregnant women should stay home, but do feel the act of actually giving birth is not a work-appropriate activity. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned that way. :)
P.S. You are hereby fired from your job as my copy editor.
I think my boss would've liked me to take a moment give birth at work, then stand up and get back to work. You know, how the workers in rice paddies supposedly do...
I got around her expectations by waiting until a holiday. :)
(P.S. Really? "A large and growing segment of the population"? And no one REALIZED what that sounded like? That is a good one...)
(P.P.S. Will call you tonight to plan lunch for tomorrow!)
A doctor's office, deary. And Obama throws like a girl.
/me ducks
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