Monday, October 8, 2012

You have to love typos

I was looking at a story from mediapost.com about the decline in business for greeting card firms. Hallmark is closing a plant in Kansas and will be laying off 300 people.

The Hallmark executive quoted in the story is identified as, "Pete Burney, Hallmark’s senior vice president who overseas production".

I'm sure the typo was inadvertant, but sending some of the production overseas is probably what has cost those 300 people their jobs.

So, perhaps Pete "oversees" production, or perhaps his goal is to "overseas" it. Either way, I would not count on those Hallmark jobs being in Kansas 5 years from now.

Source: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/184691/greeting-card-market-hurt-by-digital.html

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