One of the links in my e-newsletter today was missing the letter s. The product name wasn't plural, so I didn't think anything about the web address not being plural. I checked to make sure the link worked. It did. It had a beautiful picture of a beach scene. I went on with my work.
An hour ago, I got an email warning me to check my links. Apparently, without that s in the address, readers are taken to an adult photography site. I swear it doesn't look like a porn site when you open it!
So I had to go tell my boss before he heard it from someone else. Thankfully, after explaining the situation and him looking at the correct website and the incorrect one — and my assurance that it wasn't on the actual email readers received and only on the website, where it was corrected within hours — he gave a little chuckle and said he saw how that could happen. And if he were the one making the product, he'd change the name.
Whew! I'm glad one of my co-workers urged me to tell him myself. If he had heard it first from a reader or that company, he would have been irate.
But a few luck old men got to go to a porn site as part of their efforts to keep up on their industry.
*embarrassed*
- theCallowQueen
- In the down-hill tumble of life, I'm okay with the scratches and bruises; it's the broken bones that I'm trying to avoid.
4 comments:
I love it. Glad it worked out well for you. I'll resist (although it is hard) to ask the name of the "product," with the s. :)
Ciao chica...hope all is well.
Teri
The product with the s is for a TV broadcast facility that is use for remote on-air guest setups (so a politician in D.C. would go to this studio and sit behind a fake backdrop of the capital when he or she is being interviewed on a news talk show taped in another location.) Live shots of politicians--exciting stuff. Yawn.
Oh boy! I hate that you have to be so careful about this kind of stuff. I remember when I had my internship and I told my parents to check out our company's website. They didn't put a hyphen in the address and found a nice porn site.
Once at work I was trying to call my sister at a Lawrence phone number so I was using my phone card, and I accidently starting dialing the access code instead of the initial ATT 1-800 number and called a porn site. I called the head of IT and left him a message. I of course told my coworkers and they thought it was hilarious.
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