How to Deal with Your Mistakes
A long time ago, Missy and I were in a cash-poor position, and I decided to try earning a little side money by applying at a temp agency. They tested my typing ability and basic familiarity with Microsoft Office. I had used word processors before, but not Word. And at that point it had been a few years. In fact, the most advanced word processor I had used ran on a black and white Mac, if that gives you an idea. A few things had changed.
They asked me what the squiggly red line under a word in my document meant. I didn’t know.
Think about that. I did not know what the red line, the foundational interface of a modern spell checker, meant. To make it worse, while failing to answer that question, I looked directly at a misspelled word and didn’t catch the error.
I was not offered any work.
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How to Appreciate the Humor of the Situation
I wrote this comic after I had two of the same make and model of keyboard break on me in the exact same way in less than three years. If you’re wondering whether I had done something unusual on the keyboards to make them break, the answer is yes. I typed on them more than the manufacturer anticipated.
Some of you are thinking that I got what I deserved for buying cheap keyboards. Goes to show what you know. The keyboards weren’t cheap! Not at all! (That sounded a lot more like a victory in my head.)
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